How many of you genuinely use Linux as your daily driver? Not just for distro hopping or ricing, but for actual work, sticking with a distro until its support cycle ends?

i ran ubuntu full time for a few years during college

then i got a job, now i'm on windows 10 ltsc :^))

I use nothing but Linux each day. I don't distrohop or rice.

>>105637630 (OP)
I program embedded Linux application development as part of my duties. I use Ubuntu 24.04 because that is what the toolchain I use supports for installation and deploy to bare metal Linux. Technically, I should try and sequester everything in my toolchain to a container but I don't care to deviate from the others on my team for a supported environment and things just work. We usually hop right before a support cycle ends and do every other cycle. So what I used before was Ubuntu 18.04. You don't rice or anything, you just install the packages needed and pull dev libraries as needed and do your own thing if you need newer than what the distro supports. Somewhat simple.

>>105637630 (OP)
I work primarily in WSL. If I didn't have to deal with Microsoft Office Suite I'd probably just use Linux for work.

>>105637662
Containerizing your canonical dev environment is really important for setting up CI, automating emulated tests, and making things easy for new devs to set up and get working. I highly recommend putting in the work. It is really easy to do.

>>105637630 (OP)
I do, ama. Last 20 years nearly exclusively.

>>105637785
did you poop today?

>>105637785
Gnome or KDE?

>>105637791
Yep. Decent one after the morning coffee.

>>105637797
GNOME, these days riced out to get as close as possible to gtk3, and to some degree early enlightenment, which to me were the best days. Did flirt with KDE here and there, and have KDE installed, and I use a few KDE apps here and there but from within GNOME.

>>105637757
I don't handle that and we don't use containers for our build machines. I am guessing that is the new meta? Make sense.

>>105637630 (OP)
My work issued laptop is too shit for Windows and all my job responsibilities are handled through a browser anyway, out of necessity. Linux is the best choice for me by a mile

>>105637822
May we see?

>>105637923
Here you go, posted this in the desktop thread a while back, before the .2 update.

>>105637952
>stealth camping

>>105637630 (OP)
I used openbsd as a daily, but I don't do any actual "work" on it unless you consider school shit work (I don't).

>>105637952
I like it. Simple yet inspirational.

>>105638075
Thanks. I guess I might add:

1. Note that the top bar is transparent and thinner. I think opaque top bars look like shit and they make me feel like I'm in a cave.

2. Note that the top bar has "caffeine" (lock screen / sleep disabler, get it caffeine? no sleep?) and "flameshot" screenshot/screenshot markup tool.

3. Apps and Places menus exist and are in the upper left corner. I forget what is what if I haven't used it for a while and need to be able to browse app by category, not some stupid huge icon search thing.

4. Dock is on the left and is only for things running and web browsers, file browsers, my favorite all purpose editor, terminal, and LibreOffice Writer. It is set to autohide if a window is maximized.

5. All active windows are in the bar at the bottom. Even though the system is still in light mode, the bar is dark mode through editing the CSS for it. Groups are enabled so they stack by group (not seen here).

6. Window decorations (X, _, maximize) are on the upper left so I don't have to move my cursor 10 miles across a widescreen all of the time. My mouse cursor is generally in the left 1/3 of the screen.

7. A touch of transparency on the terminal window feels nice most of the time.

There's other stuff but that's what comes to mind right now.

>>105638101
flameshot markup example

>>105638101
>Window decorations (X, _, maximize) are on the upper left so I don't have to move my cursor 10 miles across a widescreen all of the time
I find it takes slightly less physical strain to move my cursor to the top left as opposed to the top right. Having the window controls on the left side should be a more widespread option.
>>105638137
Looks like flameshot is just what I've been looking for. I've installed it now. Thank you.

>>105637630 (OP)
i do , use fedora on my desktop and mint on my laptop. have a few other laptops running as servers with either alma or ubuntu server on them. minimally riced , only made to look or feel a little smoother that works for me. used these all through college and now working as a sysadmin. only windows computer in my possession is the work issue one they wont let me swap over.

>>105638294
These are interesting choices, for me Fedora moves too fast and needs a better package universe, and Mint moves too slow and gives me "I truly long for Windows 7" vibes.

I haven't used windows since 2019. The one piece of hardware i have that needs it is my film scanner an I just pass it through to a windows 10 virtual machine when i need to use it.

>>105637630 (OP)
Using Linux on and off since 20 years and finally removed Windows from all my devices 3 years ago and never looked back. I do my actual money earning job on Linux (freelancer code monkey), I also play all my gaymes on Linux. Using different distros on different devices but mostly Debian Xfce.

as someone who works high up the tech ladder i exclusively use a macbook at home and a windows 11 rig at work
its just the way things work when you have to work without the fear of your operating system shitting itself in the middle of work

>>105637630 (OP)
Been using Ubuntu LTS for years for work. Slowly saving up for a M4. I need something that JustWorks.todd, and even Ubuntu LTS has its issues at times.

>>105638367
Did the weekly Wingoys update and its 7 required reboots and the "didn't-ask-you" Dell BIOS update disable your shift and period key?

i use linux everyday, can't handle windows bullshit

void linux, i3 with no rice, just a wallpaper

>>105638396
i havent had a windows update prompt in 3 months, and when i do get it i schedule it to update when im about to leave the office

>>105638378
What about windows?

>>105637670

>>105638468
Windows sucks (esp for webdev) and does anything except 'just work'.

>>105637630 (OP)
The only place I use anything else is at work and even that is 95% WSL or ssh'd into Linux servers.

I literally can only work on linux
The other day I wanted to just generate a self-signed SSL certificate on my windows gaming machine. I looked it up and the guide was like just compile openssl using cygwin bro what the fuck

The moment you start doing anything remotely technical thats not just using word or excel windows turns into a gigantic shitshow

>>105637630 (OP)
I use Linux at home and code some programs for giggle because that's what Linux really excels at
At work, the IT team provides me with windows, and that's it.
I'm considering switching to Windows for my home PC tho, since programming is not fun anymore and WSL is quite good enough

>>105638601
That's because you're trying to use linux software on windows and are thus forced to submit to the processes linux users force on themselves the minute that the package manager ceases being prostated to because pre-compiling binaries and keeping dependencies alongside would be resource inefficient compared to linux that has 10 duplicates of every library anyways.

>>105637630 (OP)
I've used linux exclusively for the past 12 years, and maonly for 5 years before that

>>105638715
SSL certificates are OS agnostic, the fact that neither Microsoft Mangement Console nor Windows Firewall or anything else doesn't have this other than basic import of a certificate is appalling. Yes, you need to run a CLI tool on Linux to do this but at least the option is there.

>>105637630 (OP)
Yes. Debian or Ubuntu, depending on the use case. Always GNOME.

>>105637757
okay basedboy

>>105637952
>gnome
>all of this customization
>hacker panels wannabe
>still use google chromium
I thought you faggots wanted to stop using google products?

>>105637630 (OP)
I only use Linux on all my machines.

Yes, I use Arch.

Yeah, I switched in 96.

>>105637630 (OP)
I switched to Linux about 2 years ago, tried 2 distros and settled on Endeavour (Arch). I've been using it daily since and have no issues, even my windows software runs fine under Wine

>>105637630 (OP)
I started using Linux in late 2024. Arch. I like it and don't have any plans to switch. I've only had a couple of Windows-only programs that I wanted to run and they ran fine in Wine. Gaming has also been working perfectly fine in Lutris.

>>105637630 (OP)
Arch masterrace, using it for around 8 years now for work and private.

>>105638857
>/g/ is one person

>>105637630 (OP)
until troonix has everything.exe ported and built into the start menu i cant imagine living in a non windows environment.

>>105637630 (OP)
ive had linux installed on at least one of my machines since 2008, have had an install on my daily pc since 2012, switched to linux as my everyday driver in 2016. used ubuntu from 2016-2021 upgrading for each lts, swtiched to arch and have been running that since.

>>105639307
pathetic

>>105639334
im not sure what you are trying to prove with this shitty blurred screenshot.

>>105639337
what exactly is everything.exe?

>>105639337
that's just a typical troonix user, just another autistic ape that can't use words to express themselves. They are as intellectually developed as a 2 year old that communicates only by pictures and things, not words. That's all they can do, apart from babbling one word replies like a newborn.

>>105637630 (OP)
I do

>>105639379
cope

>>105639347
its a program that basically makes windows go from being slow as dog shit to an absolute joy to use.
it's basically a search engine that has effectively global path-like recognition down to split second character by character searching. it will go through every single one of your files. for example if you downloaded or saved a file and aren't sure where it contains the letters "tax return" or "boi pucci" you can type that in and it will pull it up. have hundreds of uninstalled portable apps laying around? this can refind them in the maze that is downloads folder/home
with a proprietary software called object desktop or start 11 I can have this already amazing piece of software grafted to my start shell ui and therefore all I need to do to have ANY file within my finger tips that i can remember the name to is press windows and begin typing it. it is universal run, universal folder find, universal file find, it can do more complicated search, and can build intexes for specific non ntfs style file systems as well manually such as for exfat.

while search tools exist in troonix last I checked with enthusiasts this is the one thing linux just doesn't have

>>105639379
heres my image for you anon

>>105639401
Cool.

>>105639396
thanks for proving what i just said
>>105639401
ofc it is a weeb. hahahah you are all so predictable. It's like I know everything about you based on one post.

>>105639437
>says "themselves" when referring to a singular "autistic ape" while also criticizing both their intelligence and ability to use words
grim

>>105637630 (OP)
Pop OS chud here

All day err day

>>105639401
KDEs search can do that just fine.

>>105639307
Linux has had it (and much better) 20 years ago.

>>105639757
>>105639759
doubt.
I specifically looked for this when deploying a bunch of distrohops and pretty much everyone had some utility to recommend with the caviat that it would never be quite as good as everything because no ntfs for whatever reason ( i dont actually know why it can't work just that they say it doesnt and by all accounts its slower and also not as good.)

>>105639401
Pretty sure you could use fzf to get an even better result. Add ripgrep and you can search inside files too

>>105639757
Exactly, locate and its frontend have been doing that for ages. Wangblowstard fonally get a wiff of sloppy seconds and act like what rhey've seen has never been done before since they are totally tech illiterate

>>105639769
Case in point. Utter and total tech illiteracy as well as general illiteracy

I use kubuntu. 24.04 LTS. I do all my work with it. My work is managing Linux servers.

>>105639771
>>105639780
oh I see you are idiots who live in the terminal.
no none of this is that.
everything.exe is a gui application and therefore I do not have to type out a bunch of bullshit if I want to right click something

>>105639811
And the illiterate retard doubles down. Classic.

>>105639817
you keep saying this shit but you are just blowing hot air and lying like a classic kike, crying as you strike, here's some objective truth nukes

you aren't going to post video evidence of your console behaving anything like everything.exe because it can't.
you are an illiterate jeet who doesn't understand what the words character by character instant search means.
lastly, the only evidence you even tried to post is a blurry shitty photograph multiple people mocked you for.

>>105637630 (OP)
I use WSL2 within Windows 11 (yes 11).

>>105639830
OK pajeet calm down, you'll end up shitting yourself before getting to the street at this rate. Next time tell your special needs nurse to use google for you so you don't end up so embarrassed.

>>105639849
>jeet lost and now has no choice but to shit his pants and pretend it's everyone else who is wierd and dumb for not doing the same

>>105639401
you might looking for `plocate(1)` and `updatedb(8)`, classic/ancient software really.
if you need full text search, as in content indexing and not just filenames, something like `recoll` might work, but it seems rather old and I've never used that.
KDE (and likely gnome) has a great search with file content indexing, but on the other hand the exact filename matching semantics are less than ideal and sometimes weird - so I just know the general location of where something is written down and use `ripgrep` to search contents (usually it's code or markdown, so it makes sense for me)

idfk why people would say [X utility] wouldn't work with ntfs, all my cloud stuff and all my code is on ntfs, to use when I use windows once in a blue moon (literally only for fucking tv cast), and it works flawlessly no matter what I do. every single program ever has worked on ntfs for me too.
locate specifically shouldn't care about any file system at all.

make sure you have ntfs-3g installed as the default driver that ships with linux is read-only. ntfs-3g might be allegedly slower but I haven't actually seen that happen on a major scale

>b-but it's cli
ask chatgpt or gemini to write you a python plugin for KRunner (the PowerToys Run/MacOS Spotlight equivalent for KDE) that uses said tool (plocate), make it use a prefix like "loc <search term>" to avoid clutter/ambiguity. Customize said plugin further to your liking, e.g. to use regex or to be case insensitive or etc, Gemini can basically hold your hand through it.
The same plugins also work in the "start menu" (launcher), no proprietary software needed either.
Don't make me spoonfeed you a prompt

there, you have no reason to complain now. literally ask chatgpt to make/fix the things you need. you don't have to rely on pajeet from microsoft answers to tell you "sir sfc /scannow or reinstall the whole thing" or "we wont be supporting that ever, kys"
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11

>>105637630 (OP)
Me, literally everything works on Linux nowadays:
- Unreal Engine, Unity
- Graphical programming with Vulkan
- RenderDoc
- Embedded development (ArduinoIDE / Thonny / tweaked out nvim)
- CV/ML (CUDA)
- Webdev
- Blender / Substance Suite
- Krita (potentially also CSP, haven't tried that one yet since Krita is enough)
- DaVinci Resolve for video editing
Everything is installed via a simple "sudo pacman -S" or "yay S", I don't need to waste time looking for installers online. Everything is regularly updated.

>>105640263
>b-but it's cli
hi esl. i appreciate the better attitude than the street shitter from before but you still need to practice a bit more english on this post here >>105639830
everything.exe isn't a clie "press enter to maybe get the thing you want". it's character by character live search. It's instantaneous and doesnt require scrolling or a new window when attached to the start menu. it doesnt work anything like an outdated terminal system which requires you to enter text to see anything happen at all. a terminal cannot react to words you post. pressing the windows key does not automatically bring up a terminal that will do this even if it did.

please actually read what I said the program does and put in the work in understanding it before recommending me something that is used to generate a list of search results instead of instantly provide any file i want.

>>105640327
Take your meds pajeet

>>105640362
>Reeeeeee stop btfoing me
shit in the loo jeet.
all you have to do is post a video proving me wrong but you wont, because looking up how this software works would be an unbearable fucking tax on your elitist troonix shit covered jeet brain. it would be unfathomable for you to start by understanding what a customer or user wants, you have to instead mock them and then recommend a bunch of worse solutions
>saars have you tried javascript for your usecase sars!!!

>>105637630 (OP)
Ran Nobara for a year until nvidia decided to stop support for open source drivers, back to windows now until I get an amd graphics card.

>>105640373
>n-no u
is that really the best you can do?
Of course it is, that's why you're stuck in mumbai.

>>105640412
who the fuck ever used open sauce nvidia drivers? Are you high?

>>105640544
>durr did da best u can do?
t. brown jeet jew
post the video and there will be an end to the horror, you wont, because you cant, because your search programs do not even do 1/2 of the things everything.exe does.

>>105637630 (OP)
I use it at home near exclusively. I don't mind spinning up a windows VM or using my windows boot drive if I have to but that's rare. At work I use whatever they make me use but I could do it on Linux

the only situation ive encountered where ive actually been forced to use windows on my own hardware is in college, the online proctors don't allow anything but windows and chrome and they can detect if you use a VM. rarely a prof would let you proctor in person which was always a relief

>>105637662
>X*linx

>>105640553
I am a newbie in linux usage and still learning, most of the OSs I've ran came with open source drivers for my 1060 and that was enough for play, work and leisure.
So I don't know why you have this reaction, educate me

Although I've dipped in and out of Linux usage over the last 15 years, I have finally gotten around to using it almost exclusively on all my computers.
I've been using Bazzite on my gaming PC for the last 4 months, Devuan on my X230 for 2 years, and put Fedora on my lounge room PC the other week since I wanted to try it instead of Bazzite, and so far it's mostly the same but it's easier to install shit. I like it, I'll probably keep Windows 10 LTSC dual booted on my main PC just in case, but I have barely had to use it in the last few months.

>>105637630 (OP)
Me for 10 years.
>support cycle ends
The cycle never ends.

>>105637630 (OP)
not yet. I want to once I build my new system

Using Linux for nearly 20 years, daily 15. Webdevel, sysops.

>>105640648
What the fuck is so shitty college? Name&Shame!
For others if they are so fucked they MUST give you HW&SW which will run their shitty system. And when it fails they must change it for working one for free. Do not let them cuck you with their jewish dicks!

>>105637630 (OP)
I do, Gentoo on my desktop, Ubuntu server on my server, Arch on my Laptop. As you can see, I prefer rolling release so I don't have to deal with lifecycle stuff. I sometimes try out distros on another laptop, I don't like starting over so I fix problems instead of distrohopping. I game a lot on Linux too.

>>105637630 (OP)
15 years and going, Linux 24/7, both home and at work.

Home: Fedora only, dev and gaming.
Work: Mainly Alma, but also some Rocky, CentOS, Debian and Ubuntu. We do hosting and managed services.

>>105640664
The openaource drivers have always been dogshit. Sometimes buggy, although official drivers even on windows tend to be even buggier but I digress. Usually you'd get 1/4-1/10 your card's pwrformance with these drivers, although they improved over time.
Nvidia has always offered official linux drivers on their site instead and several distros have special tools to detect, sownload and load the right drivers instead.
I have no idea how you managed to play anything with the opensource drivers and a 1060.

>>105640263
I saw this meme on Instagram today.

>>105642106
Aren't the linux drivers derivates of the opernsource ones? I don't know much, actually asking shit
Because Nobara actually sent announcements on the discord channel saying that Nvidia is no longer releasing open source (or linux drivers?) and as such Nobara will not be having these drivers pre-installed starting with Nobara 41, and the moment I updated my distro & kernel as per nobara 41 my display drivers weren't present anymore, everything was in 800x600 resolution with no possibility of changing, then I read on nobara website saying that we'll have to do the manual installation of proprietary drivers.

"Please note that as Nobara is a forward-moving, gaming-focused distribution, it is required that if you have an Nvidia GPU, it must be supported by Nvidia open driver version 565.77 or newer for compatibility with the latest Wayland, VKD3D and DXVK updates, OBS, Gamescope, and Vulkan. Older driver versions do not have the functionality and vulkan extensions that are required for these and will have performance and rendering issues, or may not work at all."

>>105637630 (OP)
I had mint on my laptop for years, but I fully jumped to using arch on my desktop when the windows recall(?) fiasco happened. haven't yet run into any situations where I've had to use windows again

>>105642293
>>105642106
Nevermind, checked the past of nobara, yeah, I've been using proprietary drivers not the nuvo opensource ones. But since nvidia started releasing their own opensource drivers themselves, nobara 41 started using them instead of the proprietary ones, but they started releasing starting with 16 gen of cards forward and I have a 1060.
Either way, I didn't want to install the proprietary drivers myself with nobara 41 forward so I just gave up on it until I upgrade my gpu.

Either way, you're right, I've never used the nuvo open source drivers.

>>105637630 (OP)
I use Linux as a work machine M-F 9am to ~6pm. I could use any OS. I'm not doing dev or programming stuff. When I log off this laptop I open another Linux laptop. I use KDE, MATE and XFCE.

>>105637630 (OP)
I want to make a move, but there is no "ONE" distro.
I'm not even hoping around I just hate the fragmentation.
Also why bother with linux when I can just use the random LTSC iso I got from the /g/ thread for windows 3 years ago and disabled all updates on?
Idk man. Wish linux was better. Somehow it feels less bad to depend on a large multinational company than a few gangs of random mentally ill people.
Redhat is already EEE-ing linux pretty hard as well. So whats the point?

Wish I was autistic enough to have a comfy hyperland rice with picrel as my pape.

Ive stuck with the same distro for +2 years and have booted into windows less than 5 times in that lapse. I don't rice or anything, it's just my tool of choice. I don't see myself going back to windows anytime soon, haven't had any real issues besides having to fiddle with the power saving features to get +10h of battery on my laptop.
I kinda miss photoshop sometimes but it isnt worth the hassle.

>>105642618
>I hate fragmentation
>I also hate redhat for trying to unify the ecosystem
>I haven't moved into linux (thus you don't know what it's like to begin with)
>I wish it was better though
Make up your mind, skirt wearing man.

>>105638378
>M4
Assuming this is the Mac M4, using MacOS after daily driving Linux is refreshing at first and then quickly becomes annoying. Asahi Linux is very close to being a fully capable daily driver at this point, I would recommend installing it immediately.

>>105642859
>You need to castrate yourself and try it to know that you wouldn't like being a tranny.

>>105638583
>esp for webdev
Is this... a joke?
You must be unemployed

>>105637630 (OP)
>everyday at home
arch, same install since 2017, been using it since around just before the systemd integration
>everyday at work
I'm a swe and I use ubuntu at work.
all my uni years were on linux too as the 15 000 computers at uni were running debian with cinnamon or gnome and all assignements were supposed to run on linux.
I write C and C++ code daily but I don't know how to compile software on windows, i know msvc is the compiler but I've never ever needed to use it.
if I'm forced to use windows or to target windows then I'll just change company, it's very easy to avoid windows and macos these days.

>>105637630 (OP)
i use debian + i3 + emptty exclusively. my laptop opens my web browser on workspace 1 and neovim on workspace 2, and a terminal in the scratchpad. i can open my books and whatever dumb little project im working on with a couple hotkey presses. most of what i do doesn't even require a mouse. i haven't seen an advertisement or gotten a surprise mandatory update in years. i rarely have to reboot unless i did something stupid. if i want some functionality i have AI write a shitty script for me in 30 seconds. this is what computing is supposed to be like

>>105642910
MBP M4 yeah. And nah I also have a M1 for personal use and it's pretty comfy. Everything just works, no updates breaking everything, keybinds are the same across all apps, no graphical woes. All my dotfiles are working already.

It's just setting it up once with rectangle, homebrew, orbstack etc and I can get productive without having to tweak the system for hours, like on Linux.

>>105642996
You're implying that I should use WSL2? What's next, Windows Terminal? PowerToys?

Lol. Lmao, even. Get fucked. Windows sucks.

>>105637630 (OP)
Switched over about a year ago. I still have a drive with fully bootable Windows that I set up out of paranoia. I haven't booted from it even once. Really didn't expect I would not want anything at all from Windows given how long I'd spent with it, but here we are.

>>105637630 (OP)
I decommissioned my last Windows box in 2012 and have been using nothing but BSD/Linux since. Since I have Linux on my desktop at work I would say I use it daily for both productive and non-productive things.

>>105637630 (OP)
i've been using debian for a year now, it's very annoying when i have a million things open and it decides to close something cause it runs out of ram
never had that happen so often on macos or windows, and i used to have 8gb of ram when using them

>>105637630 (OP)
Actual multimedia work, audio production, djing, and minimum visual

>>105637630 (OP)
I tried to, and I definitely can, but I'd rather not commit to it right now. My problems with it is that every file manager isn't as good as Windows when it comes to searching. Tried Dolphin, Nautilus, Thunar and Nemo. The closest I've gotten to an experience I liked was Nemo since it supports regex without having to open another bit of software like Dolphin needing me to open KFind.
Then there's the fact that Filepicker is its own thing so all of that doesn't matter anyways.
Still figuring out all of this stuff in VMs before I try again because I do want to switch on my shitty laptop that has to deal with Windows bloat eventually

>>105637630 (OP)
I used Mint for 2 years a couple years ago, but ended up going back to Windows.
I still have a Linux partition I play around in sometimes.

>>105637630 (OP)
I do. I don't distrohop since I have the same distro on my 5 PCs. one of my machines is dual-booting with Windows 10 but I rarely use it, just boot it up once a day for 30 minutes to do my dailies on blue archive

>>105637630 (OP)
I stopped using it full time a while back, and moved to Mac & Windows. Only using Windows for work though, didn't have much a choice there.

>>105637630 (OP)
For years.

>>105637630 (OP)
Been using it as my daily driver for 2.5 years now.
Before that I used to dualboot on my laptop and have windows on my mainPC.
2.5 years ago I was fed up and decided to wipe windows on my main pc, switch to arch and never looked back. Haven't changed distro once.
I still dualboot on my laptop for the (extremely) rare case I absolutely need windows (happened twice in those 2.5 years).
I haven't really missed much for going back - it's been an almost exclusively better experience. Even gaming just works usually.
The one area that occasionally has some hiccups is gaming, sometimes a friend asks me to play and some game had an update that fucks anticheat compatibility for a week or so. We just play something else then until it fixes itself.
I don't think I'll ever go back.

>>105645054
>every file manager isn't as good as Windows when it comes to searching
What the actual fuck are you talking about anon, windows search is notoriously shit and you need third party apps like everything to fix it.

>>105637630 (OP)
Been using it for fifteen years.

i used ubuntu for several years on my laptop some years back. for general computing it did everything i needed it to do. but windows is just better, since it has official support for everything. i stopped using linux when i completely lost the password for my laptop and just installed windows instead. i still think linux is nice though.

>>105637630 (OP)
Everyone on here should, I do but it still makes me feel shit when games dont run properly on it but its worth the sacrifice

>>105637630 (OP)
Ive had a home media server on my network running Debian for years. Never distro hopped and never had any OS related issues.

That said, i use MacOS for day to day computing. My only interaction with Windows is on my work computer.

Linux is definitely usable as a desktop OS, but it's real appeal is for "set and forget" configs

>>105638324
i use my laptop more for stuff like coding and when i go to ctfs so i need the stability and to make sure stuff will work as long as possible.

Desktop is more for gaming and general use stuff like youtube so i want to mess around with newer stuff.

You can make mint look much cleaner and less like windows 7 pretty easily so its not that much of an issue.

>>105645409
Yeah but it doesn't break with a folder that has more than 5,000 files in it, also supports tags