Linux Users Switching Back to Linux

Every time I'm forced to use Windows it feels like I'm being punished.
- It sounds so dramatic and I know people roll their eyes when I say things like that, but it's absolutely true.
  The deeper I've gone with Linux over the years the more Windows seems (aside from the obvious privacy concerns and generally being trash corporate citizens) like an intentionally convoluted and overcomplicated mess.
  
  Win11 is like 30% ai code iirc
  
  Windows 10 requiring sign in only made me start using Tiny10 but even then I figured if end of life was happening, I may as well settle into using my favourite distribution. I love the feeling of Fedora but I have to use Arch for its incorporation of Deepin stuff.
- More like being molested.

After a day at work, forced to use mac, I just have to start my linux machine, even if I do not have anything to do on it, just to feel sane again.
- Mac is actually nice to use though... My wife has one and it was my first exposure to them.
  As a lifelong Windows user, I recall vividly asking myself "why am I not being abused by random pop ups and an overly complicated process to achieve basic things right now?" over and over while working on her machine.
  Plus their graphical interface is a pleasure to work with once you get past some of its quirks. If I wasn't already happily on Linux I would definitely move to Mac.
  
  It may only be possible to say so because I have not used windows in 20ish years, but I find mac to be completely horrible.
  Super slow. Even the arm ones, to switch to the workspace where my vscode windows are takes like 4 seconds, starting bash (I have gone through my bashrc like 10 times) takes several seconds. After a boot it takes minutes before everything is loaded in the settings, meaning some settings are not available directly after boot (why is the settings window modular and dynamic like that?)
  The mouse speed and accelleration just feels like I'm stuck in butter. I have made some config change outside of the settings to speed up the mouse, but I have to reboot to make them take effect is insane. Accelleration is suppose to be off, but that disgusting buttery feeling is still there. If I switch to linux it is not.
  They had an update where they broke ssh. They fucking broke ssh for like two months. How the fuck am I suppose to work on it?
  Not having a proper distinction between left and right opt/cmd/control which makes adapting keyboard layout to your personal workflow hard as shit.
  You have to like click everything and random shit grabs the window focus all the time. So many times I have switched workspace or something and it displayed it but the focus is still left on the laptop or something. Randomly you have to click on a window instead of just using a keybind to get there.

First thing I noticed about this photo is that she's holding her hair away from the ground while putting her mouth right on it. I'm not sure why but that seems funny to me.
- That would explain it.
  
  Your logic has no place in the internet. Begone!
- "I don't care if I get dirt in my mouth, but I better not get it in my hair."
- Maybe she's used to pull her hair back in this position out of habit?
  
  I know this is an older thread but I don't know why you're getting down voted. I am long haired and always move my hair out of the way bending over and whatnot. I love long hair but I don't like it getting in my eyes or tickling my nose so it becomes habit to hold it out the way of my face.

I use windows at work. even WSL doesn't make it great....
Half the time, we dont even deploy to windows boxes. They are too expensive haha. Its all Linux cause they are much cheaper and just as powerful. But mostly the cheaper angle. Still wont let us use Linux for development work though...
- That's so weird, tons of people use Linux for dev. Do they say why you can't?
  
  According to one of our adjuncts: "Windows just works for dev, why are we teaching Linux at all?"
  He didn't last.
  
  Company policy and MS licensing agreements. Also while devs can work with any OS, most users are "used" to windows and windows based products. We are talking 30+ years at the job. So they just stay there.
  Although its changing slowly. More and more apps are just web interfaces with makeup. Theres real talk that getting macs for certain departments. Its just one small step for linux at that point. And as people age out of the workforce, theres a push for newer tools...which dont require windows at all.
  
  In my companys case, they said it was an issue with intune compatibility for a good while. I'm hoping to switch off W11 soon!

Genuinely, the more I use Linux the more slow and clunky windows feels. Also I'm a power user, when you install custom apps on windows it FEELS bloated, it's like "you didn't do this the WINDOWS way, so it's clunky" meanwhile on Linux it's like "yeah man it's open just plug in whatever" and it JUST WORKS
- Doesn't matter if you did do it the windows way, honestly. Anything of any scale programmed in .NET has runtime reflection scattered everywhere, and that shit adds up.
  
  .NET runs fast on Linux

Windows has it's upsides imo. My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it.... Set static IP? Traverse down four different GUI applications all the way back to Windows NT -_-
- No! Don't take the fall for what Windows forces you to do. Creating a billion GUI menus for users to get through before reaching what they really want to reach was Microsoft's choice, not yours.
- My personal problem is that I'm so bad at using it
  It's not you, it's just that Windows is badly designed.
- If you have to use Windows and you're power-userish enough to go setting up static IPs, it might be worth learning a bit of PowerShell. You can do everything with it!

I can't deal with that picture of Katty Perry kissing dirt.
- "I kissed some dirt and I like it..." xD

I had to click 4 times over 90 seconds on "sleep" on my work laptop windows 11 machine today before it actually did anything.
A meme can't be more right.
- That's the AI code at work there.

bought one of the new snapdragon x elite laptops refurbished recently. obviously it came with windows 11 and i had to briefly use it to shrink the boot partition and disable bitlocker so i could install the ubuntu concept image on it.
The amount of advertising i was subjected to in that time was infuriating. not to mention the frankly arduous setup wizard.
Even with the slight bugginess of a "concept image" OS, the user experience is SOOOO much better than shitty horrible windows.
Sent from my HP OmniBook running NOT windows
- How is it? Does stuff work?
  
  There was some fiddling to do post installation to get wifi and audio through the speakers working (although careful with this, apparently fiddling with alsa can cause hardware damage. you have to set a kernel flag for it to work).
  It's mostly fine, The omnibook is apparently one of the least problematic models in getting shit working. There isn't a catch all guide though you have to sort of figure it out from the launchpad bug comments
  The function bar at the top doesnt have the shortcuts for things like vol up and vol down working; it's literally just F1-12, wasnt a big deal for me. and apparently, although i havent tried it myself yet, external displays over HDMI isnt working. screen bightness goes up to 95ish% and then for some reason drops down to basically nothing which is kind of weird but not game breaking. Software support is reasonably good since a lot of linux stuff is already compiled for ARM because of the Raspberry Pi and other SBCs. mine is currently running the "Raspberry Pi" build of Private Internet Access
  I set it all up pretty quickly before i flew off on holiday. i did a two and a bit hour flight watching movies and still had 75% battery.
  couple days later i did a 4 hour train journey watching movies and having bluetooth and wifi with VPN active and was trying (and failing) to compile stuff and ended the journey with like 30% battery
  It's mostly silent so long as you keep it on a hard surface.
  Honestly it's game changing not having to hover around a power outlet. i'm probs selling my 2020 Razer when i get back to the UK

10 years ago I wouldn't have imagined this, but this is me every time I have to use Windows (e.g., occasionally for work) or help someone else with it.
- Same. I just switched a few months back. My laptop runs cool and quiet on Linux. When I need to boot to Windows, I hear that poor cooling fan laboring even when Windows is idle, plus everything is much slower and poorly organized. Why does my context menu have 14 selections?! Going back to Linux feels like coming home.

Performative and dirt on lips pilled.
I use arch btw.

Yeah that seems about right. Bunch of things that I wish were better but I am not going back. When I absolutely must there's a VM for that.

BRO is that Katy Perry after her space trip, I haven’t heard anything about that in a hot minute

Be me
Build new PC
"Maybe I'll try out Linux. "
Fairly popular 2 year old Motherboard
Integrated WiFi Module no drivers available
Integrated Bluetooth Module no drivers available
No support for $170 Sound Card
4 hours of troubleshooting later
Linux more bloated with dependencies and packages from troubleshooting than your grandmas browser extensions
"Fuck this"
Nuke Partition
Install Windows
Shit instantly just works
Use Linux partition drive for backups
- did you try and use Arch?
  i've only ever had to fuck around with wifi drivers when installing Arch
  Everytime i've installed ubuntu on a laptop it's worked fine out of the box, including on the same laptop i had to fuck around with drivers on for Arch
  
  I love Arch, but it is not for beginners. WiFi and Bluetooth are both sketchy. Or, at least, they used to be.
  
  No, but apparently I have one of the only WiFi/Bluetooth chip of MediaTek Corps. MT Series that is inexplicably not supported. Most others of that lineup are, just this exact one isn't.
- Namedrop the mobo and soundcard
  
  The MT7902 WiFi/Bluetooth Chip by Mediatek Corp. does not (and probably never will) have any official driver support. There are some unsuccessful community attempts to get it working, but nobody actually managed to pull it off.
  G6 Soundcard works for simple pass-through but SBX features aren't natively enabled, you need a Windows install with Soundblaster Connect to enable the functionality and load the settings into the onboard memory of the card.
  Linux "supports" Dolby Atmos but it sound mostly like dogwater if not combined with Atmos mixed audio.
- Buy good hardware next time

Could a similar meme be made between distributions?
- Arch users switching back to Arch after 10 minutes of using Ubuntu:
  
  Alternatively:
  Ubuntu users switching back to Ubuntu after using Arch for ten minutes
- Anyone after trying Ubuntu. Anyone after trying a tiling manager.
  
  For me, it's after trying a non tiling WM. I'm too deep into i3 (now Sway) + tmux.
  
  after trying a tiling manager
  I like the idea of tiling window managers – I just find it so much less hassle to use tiling keybinds on a stacking window manager …
  
  For me, it's after trying a non tiling WM. I'm too deep into i3 (now Sway) + tmux.
- It would be the "Corporate needs you to find the difference" meme

Just came back to Debian on my gaming rig after a 4 year hiatus, I’ve missed it.

I find it hard to understand how people are able to kiss the ground without the thought getting in their mind that - someone probably spat/pissed in that place not too long ago.
- This was in the desert in texas wasn't it?
  good chance nobody has been in that particular spot for a long time
- If they aren't worried about dirt, I doubt that they're gonna be worried about spit or piss.

Exactly my feeling each time I get back on personal PC/laptop after whole day of working with Mac.

I switch back to it to play half life alyx which I borrowed, otherwise usually it's sitting in a virtual machine (its corner)
- HL Alyx has no problems running on Linux