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Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going? (discuss.online)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

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[–] meathorse@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

So painfully, boringly good.

Day-to-day, it just works, I don't have to fight it. It doesn't do anything I don't want it to do. I don't miss office, everything is clean and snappy.

I have managed to play almost every game thrown at it (Bazzite) - the only one that didn't work was an older DX7 title. DOS games just work - they took more effort than this under Win9x.

I have got a couple of minor issues but all fixable.:

  • I encountered a issue where it wouldn't wake from sleep - fixed by selecting a different color profile in the display settings.
  • I managed to break something in fstsb trying to setup a persistent network drive. Very easy to roll back, I'm 100% sold on immutable until I need something more customisable
  • Recently my Bluetooth kb/mouse would drop off when the PC went idle, wouldn't reconnect/wake up until power cycling the PC. Fixed by disabling BT hibernation/sleep

Having said that, last week I had to install Win11 on the kids laptop to be ready for school - I hadn't installed 11 outside of a controlled Corp environment with solid group policy control since the early days. God-damn Win11 is a dumpster fire! The install UI looks nice but the noise is turned up to 11, popup, wizards, setup this, setup that, backup, OneDrive, give us all your information and sign away any privacy.

Regardless of any minor issues I bump into on the way, I am never going back!