The software I need doesn't yet work. Tried to run Affinity under Wine and it was a buggy mess sadly, opened a document and half the canvas wouldn't render at all which made it unusable. Apparently Canva is considering porting it to Linux natively so I'll likely wait for it to either work in Wine or the native port, whichever one comes first.

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>>107542799
combination of hardware issues and not knowing enough is what prevented me at first

I switched to Linux a little over 20 years ago in late 2005.

I switched because i became fascinated with Linux after reading about it on forums and trying some live CDs. I installed Ubuntu 5.04 and switched away from windows 2000.

It became a fun hobby to tinker with it. I missed windows vista, 7, 8, i never installed or used any of those. I only briefly used windows 10 on a family computer.
Nowadays windows is totally shit, i don't know why you would use it. I have a work laptop with windows 11, whenever im using it it's installing updates and scanning for malware all the time, the fan is blasting like a hairdryer, and when i wake it from suspend the WiFi doesn't reconnect. Wtf happened?

I always dual booted for desktop and used Linux for laptops. With Proton I moved fully to Linux even with Nvidia. Ideally I wanted a 5090 as a VM and a 9090XT or whatever to run my Linux system.
AMD had to shit the bed so I'm waiting for AMD to make a big boy card next gen and have true bliss. I'm not buying a fucking 80 class card with no vram when I have a gpu

>>107542928
can't agree with you more with linux being a fun hobby and whatever the fuck happened with windows nowadays, desu. Also, I've had those wifi problems since w10 actually

>>107542799
Datamining thread. Do not reply.

>>107543810
why not tho :(

>>107543879
I just to you why, you illiterate retard.

>>107543893
While I won't deny that it's for datamining, well, I need data for my study. It's not like I'm asking for people's personal info.

>>107542799
Switched to linux from windows because I can't afford to get more RAM(sorry for being poor), and even a debloated windows clean boot uses shut ton of RAM. Booting time is very slow(sorry for using HDD in 2025). Starts blue screening me if I remove something which I don't need from default installation (like MS edge), sometimes when I am doing something important where I expect no interruptions from my fucking operating system then I find out windows defender or System using me 80% of the disk/cpu for who knows what even do I am just writing my simple C++ programs whose folders are excluded from scanning and it gets very laggy and turns me off.
Finally switched to linux due to these issues.
>Hardware/Software issues
Most of the things have alternatives available which just work and if not just use windows 10 on a vm for the quick work.
Games mostly work unless you are using old ass wolf-rpg/rpgm game.
>Learning curve
Not much since I am used to using keyboard for most of the stuffs while using computer. It's just a little bit extra remembering some commands.
>Community
Most issues were already solved by someone else
Except for trolls(which you should honestly learn to ignore if you use internet desu)most people are genuinely polite, if you can describe your problem wholeheartedly
No one forcing me to use windows, they only look at the result, not the process unless the result is absolutely bad
>Fragmentation
It is up to the person to decide this ig
If you just a specific distro and don't change it once a while everything is gonna since no one is forcing other distros down your throat

>>107544182
Also, Sorry for being esl

>>107544197
no need to be sorry, I'm also esl lol

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>>107542799
Partially to learn programming more easily, but the desktop threads had a big part in it. This was over 10 years ago.