• Victor@lemmy.world
    115·
    2 months ago

    Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. 🤷‍♂️

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        Same 🙂 Around 2004 ish I started experimenting with live CDs of some KDE distro. I managed to also corrupt one of my hard drives doing so. Not a fun day I remember. But I learned some valuables that day, for sure.

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      8·
      2 months ago

      Mine will be this year, I only have 1 system left to put Linux on.

      I’m just currently learning some RAW photo editors before I cancel my Lightroom sub.

      Fusion360 was dropped a few months ago when FreeCAD went 1.0 (after I learned it enough of course)

    • grue@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 months ago

      2017 for me!

      (I had been using Linux on some systems since 2002 and first tried it in the late '90s, but 2017 was the year in which I ditched Windows even on my gaming machine, permanently.)

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      5·
      2 months ago

      I remember it so clearly. “Ooh, multiple desktops. It’ll take forever until Windows gets this.” (It was 1996. Newbies should try messing with fvwm. Now that was configurable.)

    • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
      1·
      2 months ago

      Nah I definitely was giving stuff up to use Linux back in the day. Really, I’d say 2021 was when things got REALLY good.

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        I’m assuming you mean gaming? Yeah, I rarely boot into Windows these days, honestly.

        Whatever it is though, it’s always a compromise. There are things with Windows we can’t get on Linux still, and there have been things with Linux which Windows still hasn’t provided, for decades. Either way you go is a trade-off. But when I installed Linux and started using it more than Windows, I consider that my year or the Linux desktop. When the only thing I booted Windows for was to launch Steam.