• archonet@lemy.lol
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    3 days ago

    the entire reason I switched to Linux – back in January I asked myself “if I have to fight my operating system to make it work right for me anyways, why pay for the privilege?”

    like sure updates break things on Linux too occasionally but at least they don’t reinstall spyware I had to spend a day ripping out after the last update.

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      Every. Single. Time. That Linux has broken on me it’s been my fault. I’ve tried to go against an automated process to make what I wanted happen. Or I’ve removed an annoying apt update warning about some unused pub key. And I’ve totally shit bricked countless installs. Probably in the mid double digits.

      I’ve burnt through valuable pictures, documents and data. Wasted weekends reinstalling and reconfiguring Linux. BUT, I did that. Not Microsoft, no one held my hand and I certainly learned and never repeating most of those mistakes again.

      Most importantly, Linux let me do those things. Linux let me be a better end user and admin because I respected my environments more.

      If you switch to Linux you don’t have to be an admin or go nuts…but Linux isn’t going to stop you if you want to.