How many times did you switch to linux and back to windows/mac?Me? About ten times from 2010 to 2024.
more than I can count between 2014 and 2019 when I was in uni and my internship turned into a full-time job
>>103230986Just once.
Once, back then it was because linux couldn't use my crappy winmodem back in the 90s and I went back to windows to be able to use the internetHaven't used windows since win95
I use all operating systems all the time
>>103231049this/thread
>>103231130but really thisit's perfectly normal to use multiple systems based on what you are doingwindows on the desktop, linux on the server. this is the true way
Twice. Once, when I was in college and I didn't know how to use Linux properly. Then again, after I'd been using Linux exclusively for several years, because a friend of mine bought me a gaming PC and made me promise that I wouldn't try to install Linux on it until we'd gotten some quality gaming time in. Now that my obligation has been fulfilled, I intend to go right back to Linux as soon as Windows 10 reaches EOL and never look back.
>>103230986Only twice, cant leave devuan, just too good
>>103230986I had been on linux for a long time, but with my latest beastly build, I really want to be able to play any and every game without wasting time tweaking things to make each one work.So I went back to Windows, and embraced WSL2, which still lets me run all the weird AI shit I want as if it was running on a real OS.I still have a bunch of linux boxen around, but my main daily driver is now riddled with Microsoft spyware, err I mean telemetry.Sad.
>>103230986switched all my personal stuff to Linux like 8 years agostill have to use windows for work and I hate when this OS comes in my way of doing things
>>103230986Installed Slackware in 1999. Double booted until like 2005. Then never went back to using windows. If I have to work on a project that requires windows, I set up a VM and then delete it as fast as I can once I'm done.
>>103230986Zero. In the rare situation that I actually need Windows for something, I just virtualize it. Haven't done it much, tho one time I ran a gaming VM for a couple months.
>>1032309862025 will be your year of dual boot
>>103230986I stopped using linux daily once I started working.Then for a while I was trying to learn gpgpu in it in my free time.But now I don't touch it.
>>1032309860i started using loonixhad a double boot for vidyabut then w10 shat itself one too many timesand now im on full loonix0% chance ill go back to windoze or fag osi have an old mac btw, but its running loonix
>>1032309860 times. Just dualboot like anyone with an IQ over 1. Don't like linux anymore? Just format the drive
>>103230986Only once from Windows to linux because i fucking hate Win10/11 with a passion, and i'm only switching it back when they make one like Win7 (probably never).
>>103230986>got into linux around 2013, used thinkpad with arch because of /g/>couldn't stick with it, sat on a shelf>burgeoning curiosity, installed it to a spare drive for designated distrohopping>switched completely in 2019, never looked back.>ubuntu/solus -> arch -> void -> gentooIt was never a "trying to convince myself to use linux", more of experimentation. Switched for largely ideological reasons. I'd rather stop using computers altogether than use Windows/Mac if that was the only choice.
>>103231130This. Mac/Windows for serious desktop work, Linux for servers and toying around.
>>103230986zero times. switched to linux and haven't looked back
>>103231670at the risk of being called a hipster, w8.1 was my favouritebut w10 was a mess. you had to disable HPET in the bios to make it run on a bulldozer cputhe auto updates bricked the os, or specific programsand yeah, while you could mess around with registries and debloating etcthats not why one uses windows.went onto loonix, dualboot for a while, never came back
>>103230986Before Proton was a thing I dual-booted but there isn't any need for me anymore so I've been on Linux fully since.
>>103230986zero. I use Linux, but never stopped using Windows on my main PC.
>>103230986?What stops people just dual-booting?>Windows/Mac if your work or a specific program NEEDS it, Linux for anything else
>>103230986>>103235356I bounced around a bunch back in the day. Even made a futile attempt at going full clown mode and trying to use FreeBSD for desktop. Been using Win 10 due to inertia. My i7-7700k "cant run" Windows 11 so when the day comes Im going full Linux or Mac. I have an iphone so the Mac has its appeal, but I might switch to Android and go to Linux just to really switch things up.
>>103230986Never once since 2006, i only used windows alongside for work reasons.
Since 1999 every 5 months I've been trying to switch and always went back to Windows
since the late 90's i pretty much tried a distro of linux every year or so but within weeks it became apparent it clearly isnt the year of the linux desktop yet so i went back to windows. I also used MacOS for a few years when the place i worked was using it and gave me a free macbook so i built a hackintosh for home use which was a ballache of a thing to do at the time. But eventually came back home to Windows and wont be going anywhere.I happily run linux on my home server and on a pi i use to run a few odd jobs and thats been just fine, but i wont use it on my desktop.
dual boot ma dood. I mainly audio/gayming in windows and everything else in lonix, comfy.
The first time I switched to Linux Mint was when I reformatted my computer because of some virus or porn thing. I lost my Windows 7 CD so I went for Linux Mint because I was interested in trying out Linux anyways. I was probably about 16 at the time. I switched to Debian sometime then.Then my PC died and I got a super shitty, slow as fuck, piece of shit laptop as a hand me down, installed Mint on it because that was all I knew. But it was too slow to actually use. We're talking it would slow down dramatically if you had more than 5 tabs open at a time. So, to get the biggest bang for my buck I installed Lubuntu because it super light weight and it improved performance somewhat. Then I bought my current laptop and installed Mint on it again. I fucked the OS because I was messing around with the Python version and lost everything. Then I switched back to Windows, this time Windows 10 IoT version. I like it because it has got the compatibility of Windows and you can run Linux under WSL.The only problem I have with WSL is that it eats up a lot of resources. I guess that comes with the fact that you're emulating an entire Ubuntu system on your Windows Machine, and I run a Ryzen 5 3500U which is 5 years old at this point. Which reminds me, is there a way to run a light weight distro via WSL so that it doesn't eat up as many resources? That would be the best possible outcome. I think I will switch back to Linux, this time Fedora or something, when support for Windows 10 IoT runs out.
>>103235390>I have an iphone so the Mac has its appealI have thought about it as well.
>>103235750>dual boot>comfyright
I tried to fully switch to Mint once. I had almost everything set up like I had it in windows even though it took forever, and I had found alternatives for nearly everything on windows even though they were all measurably worse options.Then I logged into my PC one morning and Linux had entirely deleted my desktop for no reason. All I did was turn my machine on. The recommended fix at the time was to reinstall my distro. I’ve been back on windows ever since
>>103230986Many, many times
>>103230986Here's my distro-hopping diary:Win95 -> Win2000 -> WinXP -> Win7
Last switch i made was 2012 and never went back
>>103230986i thought i disliked linux so i switched back to windows, then realised i hate windows and have stuck with linux since
>>103230986had a thinkpad/linux/i3/vim autism phase just oncenow I'm a mac/vscode with terminal on the side normietoo much autism is bad because then you can't relate with normies and create things to siphon money out of them
>>103230986ive only tried linux once for a week in 2023, distrohopped through all the big ones (debian,ubuntu,mint,fedora,opensuse,arch,gentoo) and saw that ultimately it's just too buggy and hobbyist for me to use it on my main PC and never really bothered with it again. why are you all so indecisive?
only when certain games i like had weird proton/wine issues, and i dont feel like dual booting so i just run windows ltsc and have everything under one roof. i use my steam deck docked in desktop mode alot though as well desu
>>103230986Only once when I had dial-up because retarded soft-modems only worked on Windows.Afterwards only on loonix.As a matter of fact I have the opposite of what you're saying. I wanted to daily drive Windows but I always came back to Loonix.Now I'm forced to use Windows 11 due to my job.
>>103238606Kinda like you, i have my core daily drive system (devuan+xfce4) with on top all sorts of normalfag stuff (eg: discord, telegram, steam, etc...) conveniently sandboxed in flatpaks, plus windows both in a vm with hw passthrough and baremetal on another spare pc for low effort compatibility/support of potential issues with other normalfag crap.
>>103230986in my lifetime I switched 3 times. I am now on Linux Mint since a few years, not planning to switch back to Windows
Dreading having to get into Linux due to Windows 10 EOL. I can still use W10 it, right? It's safe, right? Right??? Because there's no way I'm "upgrading" to W11.
>>103246678I just jumped to Linux because fuck Microsoft. Using Win 10 LTSC IoT is your potential out. I'd suggest you try booting from live USBs to play with Linux before you go all in on it. In my case I figured there's not much I do on Windows that I can't do on Linux and the live USB experience was pleasant. I keep my old laptop around for the rare occasions I need Windows.
>>103246678come home white man
>>103246765Translation:>QUACK QUACK QUACK
>>103246792but i grew up on 3.11for workgroups
>>103230986I can't use windows anymore is so slow and I feel like Im renting my own computer like " stop giving priority to your spyware process and do what I say, another fucking pop up, stop erasing my cracked games they are not viruses and why the fuck do you care what I do with my files"
>>103230986only once really. I installed Debian in early 2004, and then for 11 years I used Linux (different distros). And then I finally went back to Windows in 2015 I guess. Only used it server side and in VMs since.
>>103230986>switch to linux and back to windows/mac?>switchYou mean you don't have multiple computers?
>>103248099/g/ posters tell that linux is better than windows on your main machine, which is questionable
around 20 times since 2019. best experience was with fedora kde. ubuntu is disappointing, mx linux was not bad at all
Once I made the switch to Linux I never went back. I still use Windows in a VM, though. Mostly for games.
>>103250868How do you minimize the performance overhead? Do you have a GPU dedicated to the VM for gaming?
>>103251530NTA but that's the only way to proper game in a VM
>>103230986Back when I was a teenager, I switched to Linux Mint cause I didn't have a computer, mind you this was around 16 years ago so I didn't have much to work with. I didn't know how to at the time put Windows on a thumb drive if it were a thing but I knew how to put linux on a drive so I put it on another computer I got that was a register POS and it became my main computer for like 2 years till I got enough money up and got myself a laptop, and then it died then I got a Mac Mini from my friend.Overall, one works fine but the difference between each is how to install shit and how locked down you are if you don't know what you're doing on it. Now I'm on a custom built PC I've had for 10 years and it works fine. I can still play AAA games.
>>103230986On my main desktop, I'm guessing a handful of times? I use either or operating system for a couple years until I get sick of it.>this bug has annoyed me for so long, surely $otheros will be the end of my problems
>>103252017It's frustrating because there are clues out there that other ways might be possible.For example, on Windows, WSL 2 is implemented as a VM running a linux kernel, and they have a CUDA passthrough mechanism that gives linux-side code very good performance. Folks run heavy ML workflow from there happily.Not having to choose which side of the divide gets to use the big bad GPU would make VM gaming so much more viable.
>>103248327Since switching my experience is basically the same. Not having the telemetry or bloat makes it better in my opinion. Just don't be dumb about it. Don't cry that some bloated proprietary music production, image editing, or video editing software doesn't work on Linux if you need it. That shit is specialized and not everyone needs it, I certainly don't. Same goes for Microsoft Office. My job doesn't require it because I'm not an office drone, thank the Lord. If you need software that's only on Windows or Mac stick to those platforms.
I was swapping between Linux and Windows all the time on my gaming desktop for a year or so. I just stick with windows and remove telemetry and other garbage with NTLite these days.
>>103230986I left Windows in 2009.I maintained a VM on one machine for some work needs until 2014. I've not used Windows in over 10 years now, to the point that I can no longer pretend to serve as free tech support to friends or family. They don't bother asking.Feels so good.
