Arch is Amazing. Bazzite is Beautiful. CentOS is Civilized. Debian is Dope. Endeavour is Enchanting. Fedora is Fantastic.

I use Fedora so I'm stopping at F.

Microsoft pissed me off so much last week I finally listened to the fedi hive mind and installed mint. Feels good man.

I don't regret my decision to switch to Linux.

I miss how i used to think Capitalism was healthy and competition from rival businesses fostered innovation - until they all teamed up against us :(

I switched to Linux six years ago because I was bored and wanted to try it as a main OS for the first time. “I can always go back”, I told myself when I still wasn’t sure of things.

I never did, and never will. Now, I just watch Windows become worse and worse from the back while laughing in my Debian/Arch-based playgrounds.

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the video games I'm playing in Mint.

that mint iso is just sitting there. mocking me.

Yup. Bazzite for the win!

Now is the right time to start a small business migrating Windows 10 EOL machines to Linux for people who can't afford new machines and offering service plans to help them if they're stuck.

That's basically how Red Hat does it for corporations, they don't sell Linux, but they sell service and support for it.

Will it be exceptionally profitable? Not at all.

Will it be a pro-social and helpful thing to do for your community while making maybe enough money to scrape by? Yes.

This is how you build community.

EDIT: If you're independently wealthy or have the support structures, you can also just do it all for free which is even more pro-social, but most of us need at least a meager income in exchange for our time and labor to stay alive, sadly.

Joke's on them, life with an old laptop, a new battery,and Debian is amazing

I put kubuntu on an old laptop. It runs well enough that I am going to dual boot it on my main PC.

Microsoft out here doing Linux marketing for them.

Still on Mint. Haven't needed to load my windows drive up in weeks. My non-tech enthusiast partner is coming around to trying Linux after seeing what a shitshow 11 is on her work computer. It would be great to get her to switch over before my 140 dollar bill for Office 365 needs to be renewed.

I've also got some other family members who are interested in trying it out, which is really saying something for a group of people who got started with Win 95, and are very proficient and comfortable in Microsoft's ecosystem.

Currently happy with Linux on the old-ass Chromebook I bought for a whopping fifty cents. Works great. Does everything I need it to. Am laughing at Microsoft depreciating old hardware and laughing at new hardware prices.

Might eventually upgrade to a laptop that has a touch screen... But only if it's under $5.

I've been in Debian for the last year and a half, must admit that I really love it, my old yoga pad from 2013 runs smoothly, and air bought it from second hand. I do even play things like Morrowind.

It did never run w10 as smooth as it does with Debian.

It's always been this way....

A long long time ago, when I got my first PC, one single MB of ram was $100, so having 4mb was pretty boss! But then win95 dropped and demanded 8mb of ram to run anywhere near half decent, this happens with every Gen of new windows platforms

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My 2009 i5 pc is still going strong on Fedora. With a 1060, can play most of the games.

Can't be properly third world without a modern computing deficit, right? 🤔