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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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[–] GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml 138 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The longer you use linux excluslively, you don't think about windows or mac. You think about fedora or suse, kde or gnome, yay or apt, distrobox or toolbox.

[–] ani@endlesstalk.org 54 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IKR the longer I use Linux the more I think about TempleOS

[–] astraeus@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago

They don’t give us free games with the OS anymore but TempleOS has HOLY games

[–] MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is...true, actually. The longer I use Linux, the more I'm like "....but what if, man, what if I ditch Arch for Fedora or NixOS or give Pop_OS! another chance (and i very well might when Cosmic launches)?" And sometimes I do...and then always come crawling back.

Going back to Windows full time ain't even crossed my mind for a hot minute. Partly because i have a spare driver running it for emergencies (that i barely use anyways, only because Windows literally runs one important app that I need, that I can't run on Linux), and partly because going back means being stuck with Windows 11 again, and I really dislike Windows 11's design choices, personally (and Microsoft in general, but i digress).

[–] SaltySalamander@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

going back means being stuck with Windows 11 again

Windows 10 can 100% still be installed. I say that from a Win10 install.

[–] MrBubbles96@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I know it can be installed, but after the headache I got re-installing 10 once before and then trying to get 11 running on...anything, really, i just decided "you know what? What will be will be at this point. I'm not gonna need it for much anyways." when i finally got 11 to accept and install into a random external drive that i never really used (it didn't like the one i had inside my PC reserved specifically for it. Somehow...).

(Note: this was a while back, so installation could be a helluva lot better now and i have upgraded a bit since then but, shrug. Already got Windows ready to go on a drive, and only have it because I might need it moreso than me actually wanting to have it, so meh)

[–] dog@suppo.fi 1 points 1 year ago

I can't anymore. Leads to system crashing randomly. 11 works unfortunately.