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    submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    Thanks to all you goody-two-shoes, I finally made the switch, plopped out the proverbial blue buttplug if you will. I am fully on Linux/GNU Operating System 25.04. I'm having a kid soon so wasn't sure if I'd have time to make the switch, but just 300 unforgettable hours later, I'm riding the big purple penguin. I had some doubts, I was itching for that creamy feeling of big daddy Gates peering over my shoulder while I do the dirty. After my Windows VM crashed today, I knew I was at full parity with where I started, I literally got chills. Thanks everyone, I feel full again, wholly ;)

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    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

    Ok for realsies since you guys were asking real questions lol. I'm a professional software engineer, ex-top-tech, my setup is extravagantly complex. It did take a few hundred hours but it includes 15TB of data hoard, roms, emus, dos and flash games, Plex media server for home usage, a dizzying array of decades old software I've written in dozens of languages, very old obscure deprecated media formats like GMAX, a syncing script to keep it all organized and backed up with encrypted and chunked pCloud/local clones (20 rclone commands). Custom optical disc backup scripts and paper barcode storage because I'm also into cryonics. 50ish cryptocurrencies. Many online financial accounts, scripts to manage the tangle, scripts to manage the scripts.

    Flashing and installing Ubuntu took an hour. I uncovered a bug where USB Sata connection install doesn't work with LUKS FDE. To give you an idea of why my ultra complex setup slows me down, lol.

    I've dual booted on and off for 15 years (I unknowingly installed everything from source back then!) but with my first child coming I've been reconsidering my values and made the full switch to FOSS. Also dual booting Qubes OS for a while, for fun.

    I chose Ubuntu because I'm into Stable Diffusion AI and have an NVIDIA GPU, I'm time constrained and Ubuntu "just works" but I do plan to hop onto Debian/Gnome when I'm more settled. I use no other Ubuntu functionality. This will shock you but I prefer simplicity. Lol.

    [–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Have you found a good FOSS alternative to Windows Recall by chance?

    /s

    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    I'm very much into privacy/FOSS so I have an old school Polaroid with no Bluetooth, where I manually screenshot my porn every 5 seconds with my left hand. Then I've been sending the pile every day to Satya Nadella at Microsoft HQ, Seattle via Snail Mail.

    [–] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

    Hit the screenshot button often. Just gotta train yourself to screenshot often like they used to tell you to save documents.

    [–] mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    --What distro did you install?--

    Nvm, I searched and it is Ubuntu 25.04 lol. I kept thinking there was a distro names "GNU Linus OS" that I never know about. So you're purely on Linux now, congrats. Was the majority of the installation time on transferring data?

    Ubuntu is a great distro, everything should work till forever if you dont mess around with system configs. Even if you like to tinker with system, Linux is easier to fix than Windows. Command lines can be scary at first but they really help.

    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

    Not sure, it was on a USB in a Walmart parking lot. Something called freetacos.exe

    Lol: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44979912/18955914

    [–] Lucien@mander.xyz 27 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    300 hours? What did you install?

    Edit: nm, didn't see the community name at first

    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    Installation took 1 hour. Converting all my powershell scripts took 10. Copying my yummies from NTFS to Ext5 took 290 hours, I had to watch each and every one to be sure.

    [–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 4 points 1 day ago

    Did you remove the french language pack? That's gonna be another 15 easy

    [–] Lucien@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

    That makes sense

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Yummies? What's that?

    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    From the English translation of Chobits: animepedia.com/Hideki

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

    This is the literature I live for πŸ”₯

    [–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 2 points 1 day ago

    This is the literature I live for πŸ”₯

    [–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Gnu/Linux 25.04 and oddly colored poultry confused me a little bit, but congratulations nonetheless!

    [–] bonn2@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Going off the window decorations, I would say they are referring to Ubuntu 25.04

    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

    Yes, it's Linux Inc.'s newest OS.

    [–] ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Congratulations! 🐧

    But my god, 300 hours is a lot.

    [–] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

    99% working in 10 hours. There's always that last little blue anal bead dingleberrying around.

    [–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

    😏