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[-] victorz@lemmy.world 110 points 4 days ago

Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 31 points 4 days ago

Every Year Is The Year Of The Linux Desktop!

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days 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.)

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 17 points 4 days ago

That's a fun take! My year of Linux was 2007.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Same ๐Ÿ™‚ 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.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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.)

[-] Gormadt 6 points 3 days 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)

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Welcome to the family! ๐ŸคŒ๐ŸคŒ๐Ÿซ‚

[-] Gormadt 3 points 3 days ago

At this point all my systems (except the Windows machine) are running Kubuntu, and NGL it's awesome.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Sounds like a good entry point!

[-] untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

mine was last year

[-] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 1 points 3 days 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.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days 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.

[-] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

mine is this year!

[-] LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

And for many - it will be ๐Ÿ˜€

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