for gratis or other reasons ?
- Have you been a distro hopper ?
- What is your favorite Linux distro ?
EDIT : Thanks for all the comments so far. Heartwarming really!
for gratis or other reasons ?
EDIT : Thanks for all the comments so far. Heartwarming really!
I switched because I was sick of dealing with corporate garbage and abuse at the hands of Microsoft.
It wasn’t the cost, I’ve always activated my Windows installations with gray-market keys bought on eBay for 5-10 dollars. Plus I’ve paid far more for open source software than I ever did for Windows and their proprietary trash.
I had so many problems with Windows over the years. Fighting with drivers, fighting with software installs, fighting with the registry, etc etc.
I also couldn’t stand how bad their spying was getting, how bloated and clunky their software was, and how much adware they were forcing on me.
I finally vowed about 3 years ago that I would never use Windows again for any of my personal computing, no matter what I had to sacrifice.
Turns out, I didn’t have to really sacrifice anything significant, and I gained far more than I lost. I would never go back to Windows now, especially with what is happening with windows 11.
My main computer runs Nobara, because I use it mostly for gaming. I use KDE Plasma as my DE. Both work fantastic, games run fast and smooth, and everything looks so pretty lol.
I use Mint Debian Edition with Cinnamon on my laptop and it’s awesome too. Almost never have any problems with it.
My work allows me to use Linux, so I run Debian with KDE Plasma. It took a bit of work to get everything running smoothly, but I’m enough of a power user that it wasn’t too bad.
My phone runs GrapheneOS, I’m on it right now typing this. Love it also, so glad to be off a corporate version of Android. GrapheneOS is awesome and does everything I need very well.
I’ve used a ton of different distros. Different strokes for different folks. I’ve used Arch, Fedora, Zorin, Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Alma, and several others. Some were a fad, some I use for my servers, some I use for home lab testing, etc.