I Used LINUX For A Year And Never Looked Back [A Rabbithole That Is Worth Falling Into]

At the end of this month, I will be at 2.5 months completely on Linux. The only thing stopping me was simply not knowing that Steam and Proton existed for Linux. I can play the games that matter to me on Linux. Good riddance to Windows!

And windows has too much downward momentum and can only go further downhill from here. Linux distros keep getting better.
- Red Hat: Are you challenging me?
- Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 .... I mean you've got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.
I'm in the same boat. It was getting to the point where my whole computer would randomly lock up whenever I tried to share my screen on Zoom or when I opened the Windows settings menu. Opening the Start menu could take a solid 30 seconds sometimes.

Then I got an OS notification that was actually an Xbox Game Pass ad and decided I had enough. I installed Linux, and after a few days of distro-hopping I settled on KDE Neon. I WFH from it every day, using Zoom for meetings and Parsec to connect to a Windows computer in the office for work. No issues, except that Proton isn't quite as performant as native Windows.
Do games from other stores such as Epic games work with Proton?
- @iamroot @ablackcatstail heroic games launcher supports epic game store and gog and uses proton

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Three years completely on Linux, because I botched my dual boot and decided to try without the Windows partition and... never had to install it again! Happy user!

Celebrating 20 years this year!

Congrats, I think I'm at about 16 years now myself. I can't quite recall where I was when I first tried SUSE and Red Hat casually. It wasn't until I discovered Arch in 2006/2007 that things really took off.

Edit: I clearly can't math today...guess I'm a bit closer to 20 years myself.
- It's almost 20 years since the Fedora Project started, and I started with Red Hat just before that happened.

But why can't Ctrl C/V just work in Linux???

I've been using Linux for 15 years and never had any issues with copy/paste. Ctrl+C/V works fine in GUI programs.

Most terminal emulators use Ctrl+Shift+C/V since the Ctrl key is used to send ASCII control characters.
it works well, what DE are you using?

Switched from windows to manjaro full time a couple years ago and have not looked back!

I approve of the BLOOD-C references. That movie had some great moments: https://files.catbox.moe/2xr0xl.webm