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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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I'm switching on Saturday. (literature.cafe)

submitted 4 days ago by MarieMarion@literature.cafe to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've been almost-ready to ditch Windows for years. Now's the time.

My new neighbor is an old-school nerd. He hosts install parties at our local leftist third space.
He's going to help me switch to... not sure yet. Probably Mint. I can't wait. It feels as good as never giving a cent to Amazon, Uber, and streaming services.

Yay.

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No, I don't believe it's of any worth, as experiences will vary depending on user preferences and hardware. What would be the value of content like that?

But yeah, I was adamant about switching. I knew I would ditch Windows. I forced it down on my self to such a degree that I had to learn how to work (while working) without the tools I used for ~20 years like Adobe for example. I freaking love Inkscape and gimp is the most unintuitive piece of software on my PC.

[–] pheusie@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Even if it's subjective and reliant on the used hardware, if we had enough of these reports, they would become very valuable as patterns would inevitably show up.

But, I'm afraid we're past the point in which you can reliably and vividly recollect the whole experience 😅.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

There are already gazillions of reports scattered around both open and closed platforms.

But you can't easily search for them with proper filters, they are almost useless.

What we truly need is a platform that enables this. And it needs to be federated, so every willing distro can host their own but share them to those instances interested in aggregating all distros.

Fedora and Ubuntu have their own, but Distro Watch aggregates both so that anyone wanting to switch can easily compare.