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I can't really help my Windows friends anymore when they need troubleshooting for things like: why their audio channels aren't working in OBS, or why their config is suddenly corrupted. I used to be able to when I was on Windows, but now I just have to watch helplessly while they struggle to make things work.
This is what I aspire to be, but I’m not quite there yet. How long did it take you to forget the windows stuff?
It's not so much forgetting, but waiting until Windows "changes it" - the "yeah, just go here in the settings... oh... there's not a setting any more... there used to be an option for this..."
Oh, I have just written a comment about that. I forced a friend to install Fedora, as I couldn’t help him with Windows.