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So glad I switched to Linux a year ago, so much bs from Microsoft for exactly this and it was too much bs.

I'm on windows 10. And they were right that it was the last version of windows I'll ever need. I only change OS when I update my hardware. So next hw refresh, I'm going to Linux.

I'm at about 19 years since switching - MS reaffirms my decision for me each and every year.

Sure it can't be uninstalled, but that's no big deal. Just go to Settings and turn it off.

Of course, software needs to update, so it might get turned back on occasionally. Just go turn it off again.

And all the other stuff you turn off. Every time.

Just switched from windows to arch with KDE Plasma on my laptop and I have been experiencing so much joy playing with all the wonderful FOSS I never even knew about

I switched a few years ago. I've been using windows for over 30 years. They changed a bunch of random shit I had used in the past. I figured I'd give it a shot.

I never went back. I'm not a coder. I don't even like tech very much. I've been really happy with Ubuntu for years.

I wanted something that just worked. It has.

Edit: A little bit of a cathartic rant to people who will understand lol. I love you all. <3

Echo chamber or not, I'm happy to finally be back on Lemmy and see some damn community positivity about Linux for a change. It isn't perfect but it's beautiful and it's worth it and it's ours.

It's a resistance instrument over ever-entitled, creeping corporate control over our lives, it's not "better Windows", it's just better.

I just got super bummed out reading a bunch of those bizarre "Normal people can't be bothered and it doesn't instantly just work with a single button push so it's too complicated and everyone will hate it forever." Tirades... You know the ones...

The kicker... That was after I stumbled from an unrelated link into /r/linux !!, when someone was asking how to help people not be "so scared" to try Linux.

Huge, angry posts about how it can't stand up to proprietary capital-ware, and asking users to click a button or type a word "is just too much." It's freaking sad.

I dunno if the reddit brigading just got super bad or they're all self-loathing over there. But it was weird. And bitter.

I'm happy with our operating-system punk movement, where we invite artists and gamers and coders and family members to learn something and have their computing experience back, since we can't go back to the 00's when computing was an activity and the Internet was a place.

The servile corporate wageslaves who disregard their rights and throw a fit whenever they need to troubleshoot something, can keep their bloated service-appliances and their self righteous corpo-simp attitudes, whilst loudly announcing "tHe DeSkToP iS dYiNg" and "aNdRoiD iS LiNuX." They can keep it.

Meanwhile we welcome the curious, and the seeking, and those wanting something more.

I don't care if we'll never get "critical mass adoption." Part of me hopes I never see Linux getting talked about in mainstream TV news or something, because that's when the grifters will descend like vultures and corporations and states will be wanting a piece of it.

But hey I'll gladly take the time to help someone discover it and enjoy it as much as possible so it can be even greater than it is today. I'll gladly release my work to be Linux compatible and donate to software that changes my life for the better every day.

I'll gladly troubleshoot a little, and be patient, and donate when I can, and report bugs, and share what I've learned. Because we're in this community together, and Open Source belongs to all of us, and you're doing a great job.

Win2Linux project that i'm working on. It should be an official part of KDE Eco initiative soon, if there's no unexpected problems coming up. I'm running it on my private server for testing. It does not collect any information. Give me feedback on the design..

I already got that the font size is a little bit too large. Oh and some links don't work yet.

Removing Windows from your computer is like ridding your body of a terrible disease

Linux!? But I heard that's nerd stuff and I want to play all the latest video games!?

Can anyone recommend a very beginner friendly Linux OS for someone who only knows what Linux is but doesn't have experience with it and has never used anything but windows? Even Apple's OS is confusing to me. But windows is trying to force this most recent terrible update every time we turn on the computer, and I've had enough.

(I told my husband about all the helpful comments and he sent me this, thinking that's what everyone was explaining to me. I told him no, I know Linux isn't an OS, I just didn't know the OS's are called distros. Cue the most confused face I've ever seen. He's usually more tech savvy than I am, so I got an ego boost explaining it to him. Thanks everyone!)

if the best time to switch is always today then if i put it off till tomorrow it will be even better right?

If there's any new Lemmy users here, coming from Reddit (feel like I'm opening a seance), and if you're wondering what else you might decide to change during this era of change -

Try Linux! It's easy now, and frankly just better :)

Y'all, for real, I was on Windows for gaming. Gaming on Linux really does seem to "just work" now. I'm using CachyOS. It just works. The only tweak I had to do was to tell Helldivers 2 to use the vanilla version of Proton instead of Cachy's version. So literally if I was on a more traditional distribution I'd have to do less.

This year totally is the year of Linux, guys!

Trust me!