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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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My week with Linux: I'm dumping Windows for Ubuntu to see how it goes (www.tomshardware.com)

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There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

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[–] Wolfie@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I got disappointed in Ubuntu. You had to use 'Ubuntu Pro' to get the latest updates.. Bullshit :c Linux should not have a paywall in regards to security! I will test out Arch and see how it goes. Especially now when windows 10 loses support in October 16th

[–] sfera@beehaw.org 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

IIRC that's not accurate. You only need that "pro feature" if you want to be able to ~~apply~~ activate kernel updates without rebooting. Unless you have that requirement and an armada of devices matching that profile you don't need to pay anything.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 9 points 3 days ago

IDK why that would concern anyone - it's free for personal use.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There was a time that Ubuntu was the distro for the masses! Their branding featured a bunch of diverse young people in casual clothing. That's no longer the case. I outright recommend against it now.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion, if you’re going to use a Debian based distro you should just use Debian.

Yes, it is command-line/BASH heavy however, once you learn it it’ll make all the other Debian based distro’s even easier to manage. Only real difference is system directories are in different locations distro-to-distro.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

I find the amount of terminal usage a given distro requires depends mostly on the DE. Gnome is allergic to features so you'll need to bash it more than KDE or Cinnamon, for example.

[–] Wolfie@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can understand that. Plus they had some tracking or telemetry of sorts implemented. Think it had 'balloon' in the name. Unsure.. Quite disappointed ^^

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Are you talking about baloo, the file indexer?

[–] Wolfie@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Unsure. Just know there was some telemetry on by default, which isn't particularly fun for us into privacy.