Why did you switch to Linux? I’d like to hear your story.

Btw I switched (from win11 to arch) because I got bored and wanted a challenge. Thx :3

  • gi1242@lemmy.world
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    I heard two talks around 2001 or so. one by Wolfram, after which I swore never to use mathematica again. and one by stallman after which I switched completely to Linux and never went back to windows.

    still on Linux 25y later. went from days when getting sound working was a challenge , to today when even obscure tablets work out of the box.

    started with red hat. used Gentoo for about 5y. then debian for 10, and now arch.

    went from the old “crux” and metacity, to openbox to fvwm to gnome to kde plasma

    i remember the old days I was envious of Mac users for transparency and the present windows features, and I ran this utility called Skippy that would screenshot windows and present them… all these features are now built in to the wm now, so no tweaking needed