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i installed arch on my laptop almost 10 years ago
I have to fix something maybe once a year and I only update once a week, if i remember
reboot maybe one time in a month
the myth that you need to fix Linux constantly needs to die
My fiance is constantly fighting with windows 10 and 11 because shit breaks on there all the time. The challenge isn't that Linux breaks more often, or that troubleshooting it is harder, it's that if you have experience with how Windows breaks, and how to troubleshoot windows breaking, Linux breakages and troubleshooting feels entirely alien.
I feel that, but in the opposite direction. I'm used to Linux, so the weirdness of Windows is alien to me, and every time I have to try to fix a family member's computer ("hey you're good with computers, aren't you? Could you take a look at a problem I'm having?" I'm a sap like that) I feel absolutely baffled as to what's broken and how it's even possible for that to break in the furst place.
Went out for supper the other night with a buddy of mine who came to visit from out of town. He's a systems technology trainer coordinator at a community college. (Basically, he teaches the teachers about new technologies before they have to teach it to their students the next term.)
We were talking about tech at supper, specifically windows, and I realized that I have been on Linux for so long that I completely lost any knowledge of how to do any of those things in Windows. And I'm honestly okay with that.