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Those who've switched to Linux in the last year, how is it going? (discuss.online)
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715

Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?

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[–] luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 week ago

I switched full-time last year. Went from windows 11 to fedora kde.

The switch took a bit of getting used to, and getting to know the innards of the distro (broke my sound typing pulse-audio related commands then discovering that fedora uses pipewire, this kind of stuff...)

But I'm kinda cheating since I've been using linux on all my other machines since windows 8 (had a hunch about imminent enshitification, windows 10 didn't contradict it and windows 11... ha!).

I've been using windows since the 9x days, windows 11 became unbearably shitty, despite my incredibly unbloated version (originaly a windows 7 install that got "upgraded" to 10 then 11), with unwanted features getting disabled as soon as they appeared. I had a windows 11 with a local account and no one-drive and they still disapointed me! (the last straw was copilot)

Now running linux full time is a real pleasure, some stuff break here and there but nothing unfixable (usually just downgrading the faulty package until it is fixed just works), games just work most of the time, the KDE desktop is the windows one but not shitty, from an alternate reality where desktop widgets took off, and where you are allowed to customise stuff. (had to wait years on windows 11 to finally get back the "display the window's title on the taskbar" option as I'm used to since 95)

The only thing I'm missing though : system-wide autoscroll bound to the mousewheel.