Has anyone made the switch to Linux?

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I got sorta fed up with Microsoft after awhile. Linux was very bad in early 2000s. But i think it got really good by 2024-25.

I think the last resort i did to rely on Windows was to install "Winboat". Which i only use for "Imgburn" software. Because Linux burning software is (Unfortunately really bad, or i didnt get any Linux burning software to work, when it comes to burning Iso or Bin/Cue files. When it comes to old Playstation games that i like to keep a backup copy of.)

But thats the only last resort i use. I dont use Windows for anything outside that thing. Interms of emulation on Ubuntu Linux.
Outside that. Linux works insanely well! I use Ubuntu Linux

Hope i havent made a thread on this before. But what OS do you use?


But the pros to Linux?

1: Privacy. They wont ask you for your phone number or email for installing a OS. Which Microsoft uses interms of selling your personal information
2: Its Open Source, its free so. Likely gonna be made due to love of community vs profitable shady areas
3: If you have any questions about programs i use on Linux? I can try to mention some that works

- OpenShot Video Editor (Video Editing software. I have used it for years so i am quite used to it. But it works well. Though on Linux. I recommend to save your project a lot, since it can close if its too much processing power. But overall works, its the video editor i use. Its open source and free) However, to make Appimage run, you need to Right Click, choose "Execute as Program" to make it run.
-Recording video game footage "Obs Studio".. enough said, its very compatible on Linux
- How to burn CD. Rhytmbox is already installed on Linux and works that way. It uses OGG files but, its said to be higher quality either way than MP3 so i dont care :) It sounds good!

- And assuming if your Windows program works on Linux emulation?. "Q4Wine" should exist in App Center. What i tend to use.

Other than that. Thats all i know so far of the basics. But internet is a sea of information

So sorry for the wall of text. Whats your view?
 
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Btw. One extra tip. Never use the "Terminal" unless you are 100% sure. Its better to rely on App Center for programs you need. Than experimenting and breaking your system

Just words of wisdom from a guy who did lot of that in the past :D when it comes to Linux.







However. I forgot to mention one more thing. This might seem silly but. Sometimes my wifi is slow. So i tend to write this in Terminal. And it tends to do the trick for me always.

Basically. The Wifi needs more fixing in the future with updates if you ask me when it comes to Linux. But this is a overall good solution til then :)

Nr1 troubleshoot in Terminal code
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager


These others are more suggestions, but i have never needed to use them but. Might aswell write them aswell. The Nr.1 always works for me :)

Nr 2
nmcli radio wifi off then nmcli radio wifi on

Nr 3
sudo service network-manager restart
 
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For me it's not realistic to eliminate the Windows environment. My work requires it and I've been using Windows for over 30 years now. Some of my first professional jobs were in UNIX (SunOS) environments so I was pleasantly surprised to learn a couple of years ago that Linux is built into Windows now. So for productivity reasons I'll open a command window, fire up WSL and manipulate data sometimes using Perl or other command line tools I'm familiar with.
 
thomas said:
Can you run Adobe software on Linux? Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom?
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From what i know. Nope. Not without "Winboat"

There is a good video on it! Made by "SomeOrdinaryGamers" which is what helped me. Though this can be more technical to get it to work. But once you do. You can use whatever Windows application on Linux. I see this more as a temporary solution though.

I use Gimp so i have no need for Adobe software. But for people who do. Here is that solution in this video :)

 
Kulern said:
Btw. One extra tip. Never use the "Terminal" unless you are 100% sure. Its better to rely on App Center for programs you need. Than experimenting and breaking your system

Just words of wisdom from a guy who did lot of that in the past :D when it comes to Linux.
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Not sure what this fear of terminal is about. In order to do a number of things it will be easier via terminal. I have been using Linux on all my personal computers since about 1992 when I had a heck of a time getting X to start. I was using commercial UNIX before that. Some jobs make me use Windows some forbid windows for example for several years at IBM I was required to use Linux on my work laptop. One job I used HP-UX workstation. So basically I cannot see things like a typical windows user. I did get a call today for help on a company's HPC environment I helped build and they want some Windows VDI changes so I do work on Windows like AMI updates or something. Anyway I suppose I cannot offer much on switching. Odds are many of you have run some little piece of my code. I also ran the C64-A3000 series of commodore stuff back in the 80s and Apple II in the late 70s. Even my home "router" runs a custom Linux. Used to on my handhelds and phones but now I just gave up and used Android which does use a Linux kernel. So sure I made the switch to Linux 34 years ago thus I have nothing in common with most who would want to switch now.
 
salyavin said:
Not sure what this fear of terminal is about. In order to do a number of things it will be easier via terminal. I have been using Linux on all my personal computers since about 1992 when I had a heck of a time getting X to start. I was using commercial UNIX before that. Some jobs make me use Windows some forbid windows for example for several years at IBM I was required to use Linux on my work laptop. One job I used HP-UX workstation. So basically I cannot see things like a typical windows user. I did get a call today for help on a company's HPC environment I helped build and they want some Windows VDI changes so I do work on Windows like AMI updates or something. Anyway I suppose I cannot offer much on switching. Odds are many of you have run some little piece of my code. I also ran the C64-A3000 series of commodore stuff back in the 80s and Apple II in the late 70s. Even my home "router" runs a custom Linux. Used to on my handhelds and phones but now I just gave up and used Android which does use a Linux kernel. So sure I made the switch to Linux 34 years ago thus I have nothing in common with most who would want to switch now.
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Because if you dont know what you did wrong when typing in a Terminal code. Then you are kinda screwed, thats why.
So installing programs through App Center is way more safer. If they are available.
 
As long as you run everything as su and doublecheck everything you type before pressing enter you should be fine. :)
 
Can Linux play games? Runs proprietary software? If you like to hack some people's computer, be my guest.
 
Muz1234 said:
Can Linux play games? Runs proprietary software? If you like to hack some people's computer, be my guest.
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Steam supports Linux now and there is a lot of gamers transferring to Linux. The best support for Roblox is a rather poor emulator.Other than some rather crazy stuff like Internet connection crashing which I can recover with a bit of hassle, search being broken and shutdown being busted at times- it "shutdown"s to the login page, I don't have any problems with Windows 11. Windows doesn't force AI or ads on my Japanese Version of Win 11. If I transfered it would real hassle as my wife is so tecnologically ignorant like can't understand that it is perfectly safe to remove perfect duplicates as duplicate checking does it byte by byte and so the hard disk is clogged with enormous unnecesary files.
 
Muz1234 said:
Can Linux play games? Runs proprietary software? If you like to hack some people's computer, be my guest.
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Steam got it covered. But GOG Galaxy has yet to get support, though they are working on that. I hope it does get it soon though :)

But one cool thing with Linux is there is no updates for slow downs (Which almost feels like a ploy by Microsoft to make PCs breakdown quicker, for the consumer to spend more money on PC hardware?). And since Linux is Open Source, there is also little danger of surveillance by a corporation aswell, the way Microsoft has acted since Windows 11.

GOG Moves Toward Native Linux Support: A Major Shift for DRM-Free Gaming | Linux Journal

www.linuxjournal.com www.linuxjournal.com
 
Kulern said:
Steam got it covered. But GOG Galaxy has yet to get support, though they are working on that. I hope it does get it soon though :)

But one cool thing with Linux is there is no updates for slow downs (Which almost feels like a ploy by Microsoft to make PCs breakdown quicker, for the consumer to spend more money on PC hardware?). And since Linux is Open Source, there is also little danger of surveillance by a corporation aswell, the way Microsoft has acted since Windows 11.

GOG Moves Toward Native Linux Support: A Major Shift for DRM-Free Gaming | Linux Journal

www.linuxjournal.com www.linuxjournal.com
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What does updates for slow downs mean?
 
cloa513 said:
What does updates for slow downs mean?
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Meaning, Microsoft makes new updates that is doing performance damages on your PC. Making your CPU overdoing the work for nothing. Basically my PC Laptop now cant use the old charger anymore. However when i switched to Ubuntu Linux, i never had to worry about CPU overheating the way i did with Windows 11
 
Yeah I miss the old Windows products, especially Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 and Vista. It used to give us pretty blue screens when you least expected it.
 
Muz1234 said:
Lets boycott Microsoft, their products has been worst, downhill since Vista came out...
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No need Microsoft is dying. It has lost South Korea starting with the government spiralling into major companies. It has lost US computer makers- all making Windows 11 an optional addon. It has lost Wallmart. The disaster keeps spreading as it has dumbest shareholders,
 
cloa513 said:
No need Microsoft is dying. It has lost South Korea starting with the government spiralling into major companies. It has lost US computer makers- all making Windows 11 an optional addon. It has lost Wallmart. The disaster keeps spreading as it has dumbest shareholders,
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Microsoft generates substantial revenue from enterprise services, cloud infrastructure, and subscriptions, not just Windows licensing.
How did they lose Walmart? I read that Walmart spends over $500M/year on Microsoft cloud services.
I won't take your last statement personally. My Microsoft stock is worth 20x what I paid for it even with the latest declines. (And I wasn't an early investor.)
 
Muz1234 said:
Lets boycott Microsoft, their products has been worst, downhill since Vista came out...
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I think Windows 7 was peak Windows. Not perfect but still relatively good.

The downhill started with Windows 8 and has never recovered in my view. But overall i think the business model of Linux is better. Meaning, Open Source is more done for the community and leads to less shady business practices in the future. So.. i think for that reason i see Linux being the future overall

If i were to guess my prediction of 2030. I think most PCs by then will have Linux as a default OS.
 
DOS 6.2 & Win 3.12, 98se, XP sp3, 7, and 10 were all pretty stable releases.
WS side NT4 and 2000 were very stable

MacOS X 10.4 - 10.6 was pretty good as well. Previous non-BSD MacOS could be incredibly stable or not at all depending on what you were trying to do.

I have also used Linux since around 98/99. I personally can't stand Ubuntu for about the last 12 years. I don't like the direction they went, and actually breaking things via the CLI is a big reason for that. They do funky stuff with configs and if you try to fix it via CLI it ends up causing other issues.

I have used many Linux distros over the years and currently run OpenSuSE Tumbleweed with XFCE as the desktop environment. I use OpenSuSE LEAP on a few purpose built "servers" in my house. I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux extensively at work for our server environments.

I used to love running Gentoo stage 1 builds, back before they started discouraging doing the stage 1 builds and pushing pre-build binaries instead. I also ran Slackware for a time, very stable and easy to use but so dated for everything.

I can't stand Solaris, doing anything seems to be far more effort and time consuming than it should be. It was stable though.
 
Petaris said:
I can't stand Solaris, doing anything seems to be far more effort and time consuming than it should be. It was stable though.
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Is Solaris still around? I thought it was great at the time I used it, compared to Windows NT.
 
For curiosity sake. I decided to make a Steam account, because i sorta miss Sonic Adventure 2 Battle. But anything else i just use GOG for.

So i bought SA2 Battle on Steam. Installed it on Ubuntu Linux, after some updates. Started it (It might give you fake Not Responding screens) but just ignore those.

And after 20 sec or something. BOOM! Game starts! And i had zero problems. it ran really well! Gabe Newell is a legend among gamers in my view!


For a more informative education video on how this works in Steam? I found this video very useful to understand that process
 
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