I did it guys, I made the switch! I’m free! 💕

Nice! Welcome to the good side.

@Alice What do you need?

@Alice For example?

@Alice I see you point! I got a 250GB SSD from a friend because he bricked his PC and just bought a new one (yeah..) so I figured I’d finally get a dual boot instead of using slow ass VMs!

Now I’ll be slowly migrating everything and eventually only keep the Microsoft Dependent software on a separate small partition in case I need it :)

@Alice Heh. Sadly, it's either Windows or Mac if you need to do graphics. I doubt this will change anytime soon... Unless MS buys out Canonical and forces ports.

NO REGRETS!!! WELCOME TO DA CLUB!!

arch, funtoo, gentoo, slackware with humble sincerity and without memes.

But just enjoy your first step into OSS world, after a while try some systems described here for your freedom packages update.

Yay, it's a good feeling.
I switched to arch linux the start of the year and haven't looked back.

All the PC games I'm interested in are compatible or run well enough under wine.

Only place I use windows is at work, but I RDP to it from my Arch laptop just to manage servers and run visual studio 😊

I made the switch and love how unbloated everything feels

Switched over 6 years ago. Haven't looked back. Never had to.

I settled on elementary OS after a lot of distrohopping. You'll find your ideal workstation too. Just keep experimenting.

*mandatory Ubuntu isn't free comment*

I have found that no single Linux distro could meet my needs in terms of stability, package availability, and driver support. What I recently discovered was that macOS comes the closest for me. Expensive but powerful.

Wow. What an accomplishment.

@BeardedFists Same for me on the desktop. All my embedded devices are running on Linux though.

@lastNick Same. I generally use Linux for docker and CLI use cases.

Actually there's more than software, for example I can't increase text zoom in any Linux desktop environment. Vs code isn't as stable as on windows, chrome flickers and there are no good alternatives, sometimes there are alternatives for what I need but they don't work, and you find yourself spending 10 hours debugging a simple software when, in windows, you'd be productive in few seconds.

I love Linux, but just for development

Little did devpit know he stepped into a pit as he uses a distro which isn't entirely free software