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Fuck Micro$oft

It's time to switch to Linux! Because it's free as in freedom.

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I found that switching to Linux made me able to understand both OSes better, and computers in general. Half of my computer science knowledge comes from screwing around with Linux.

You can still dual boot to keep self-teaching yourself latest Windows concepts so you don't fall behind there, while experimenting and learning on Linux in your free time.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I have actually switched once before, back in 2009-2010 I daily drove Ubuntu, but came back to Windows because of gaming.

At my last job I was a helpdesk technician, 365 admin, VIP technician and their only Linux sysadmin.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Might want to give it another shot these days. Gaming has become exponentially better since then with Steam's Proton software. Still not perfect, but being able to do 90-95% of them ain't bad. The last technical hurdle is games with kernel-level anti-cheat.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 hours ago

Oh yeah, if I didn't have to do computer support at work and only dealt with the backend I would absolutely try it!