Anyone made the jump to Linux but then went back to Windows?

imagine being so poor you can't just buy double the horsepower to run a windows virtual machine on linux if you need to use some kind of vidya (need, kek) or software like photoshop.

Yep. A few years back, I kicked Win10 to the curb, and installed Arch on my laptop. After about a month of constant fucking headaches, I switched back to Win10.

kek, same here, comfiness is strong

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cringe, use a windows virtual box on linux instead
cringus maximus, nobody uses arch

Yes, and you can make the jump to it just fine.
Fucking pretentious sperg.

I tried Ubuntu for a few weeks before I gave up, is just not very good or worth dealing with the problems.

This. Windows VM with GPU passthrough on a Linux host is the patrician's choice.
You can run pretty much anything with very good performance, with none of the hassles of dual booting.

Just run linux on a laptop. I have a windows desktop and linux laptop. Using only one is stupid. Computers are just tools. Use whatever is best for the job

Never install Linux on a laptop. It kills battery so fast.

>the greater availability of software
Yeah i just love all those great .exe's on download.net too

Haven't booted my Windows 10 install since August 6th. Just logged back into it less than an hour ago. All the updates installed in less than 30 minutes and only took 2 restarts.

Didn't know where else to post this so I'm using your thread.

*thumbs up* Pretty cool OS you've got here, bros.

Gonna reboot back to Manjaro though.

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>I'm asking because I will probably return to Windows because of the greater availability of software and ease of use
I did this a lot of times. Back in the days when i was like 14. Then I grew up (with 15) and just gone full linux, because there was no point in windows.
okay thank you

Many times, Windows best

its the fucking future
so learn from the past and just give each OS its own removable drive

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what a worthless post

>only took 2 restarts

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Kek'd somehow
t. Winbaby since 2008

I have, ages ago... then win7 came along and I'm still using the latter

no if you do processor scaling right. On my laptop just installing tlp and running tlp start gives me about the double of battery than on windows. 3:30 hours vs 6+ hours on linux. A full DE on loonix by default still gives me about 4 hours of battery than windows kek

>30 minutes and 2 restarts for less than 3 months of updates
>cool OS
Uhhhhh, no

If you're considering switching to a Linux distro, choose Manjaro (or if you're ready for it, Arch)
If you choose Ubuntu getting a lot of software is an absolute pain, the base repositories are basically a meme.
Even if you don't like looking at the terminal, Manjaro will come pre-installed with a software management GUI (octopi or pamac) and once you enable AUR in there you have so much more software right at your hand, anything else is literally a waste of time.
I repeat, don't install Ubuntu, it's a dead meme

Depends on the distro. Fedora put some work into decreasing power consumption with the last release. I remember reading that the same thing is planned for the next Ubuntu release, but I don't know to which extent they implement it.

Yep. I tried a few flavors of Linux for the freedom, but there were too many buggy, half-finished elements. The lack of good software for things besides basic office shit or software development was also a put-off.

It's like Linux devs don't do anything other than Linux-related things in their lives.

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Anyone make the jump from windows to linux, the back to windows again because you thought it would be easier to use and would have more software, then realize that package managers are amazing, and digging for software online and shitloads of monolithic installers is cancer, then switch back to linux again and realize that it's not actually harder, just different

I jumped back and forth a couple of times.
Then I realized Linux wasn't the problem, Gnome was the problem. Switched to KDE Master Race™ and never looked back.

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>not making your own OS

Never switched back. I learned to solve my computer's problems. There is literally no reason to go to Windows unless you are shamed by "friends", want da games, or suffer from baby duck syndrome.

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manjaro is a dead meme, breaks just as much as arch

If Windows was a Linux distro, everyone here would suck its dick. There's a reason why, statistically, almost no one uses Linux on the desktop (< 1% market share). Linux is a good server OS, nothing more. The developers don't seem to care and, as a result, the better OS (Windows) is still supreme. That's just how a free market works!

yes, twice. dual booting is a meme and some software is just better on windows

Can confirm. Couldn't force myself to like GTK DEs, be it Gnome3, MATE, XFCE or LXDE.

Who says you can't use both?

Linux really does not work as a daily driver. At least not for most people.

My cpu doesn't support vt-d, user :(

Arch isnt really that hard. I'm using it right now. Manjaro is a good option of you want something more foolproof.

If Windows was a Linux distro, it would have a decent terminal, a package manager, and there would be a fork with the spyware and forced update shit removed. Everyone would suck its dick because it would unironically be the best OS out there.

went from win10 to linux to w7
cringe

Yes, windows was just much more practical for school and I was kind of bored of using Microsoft word and Excel and all that crap in a virtual machine.

I run Ubuntu Budgie on my laptop, great for doing school work. Windows on my desktop for gaming and I use an iMac at work. Out of the three, Windows is easily the least pleasurable to use.

I just bite the botnet bullet and use Google Docs et al.

>I learned to solve my computer's problems.

thats the thing though. I dont want to learn to solve my comps problems. I dont want to solve my comps problems.I just need it to work without my assistance cause I have shit to do.

nah

Yeah when I was new and dumb. “Muh ease of use” just means “I don’t know how to use it.”
>I dualboot so I can play games
Is the real reason people do this meme. Try proton. I bet 80% of your library will be flawless. Literally the only games that don’t work are jewbisoft uplay shit because uplay won’t run.

Life is but a series of switches between OSes

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yep. still use linux on shitpads, tho.

No. I haven't used windows since 7. Use linux at home and a Mac at work

macs shit

this. needed adobe creative suite and excel. didnt want to use gimp/libreoffice
didnt want to use a hacky workaround like wine.
reformatted back to windows lel. fuck this linux garbage.

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Windows for everything, linux only when I have to.

>thats the thing though. I dont want to learn to solve my comps problems. I dont want to solve my comps problems.I just need it to work without my assistance cause I have shit to do.
this is why I use macOS

>there's a reason why
>doesn't present a reason why

Don't get tricked into installing/using Linux by Loonixfags unless you're a developer. Except for you health, nothing in life is more valuable than your time. There are no official statistics but we all know it's true: if we had two samples, a group of Windows users and another group of Linux users, the mean amount of virgins, unemployment and faggots who watch anime would be higher in the Linux group. Don't deny it, we all know it's true and again, I am talking about the general rule because like in every statistic, there are exceptions. Being unsuccessful almost always results in a lack of self confidence. They can't stand the fact that they suck at everything in life so what they'll do is trying to convince you to use Linux because apparently it's safer and easier to use (lmfao). Maybe they're not even aware of it but subconsciously they know that their counterpart is not going to be able to handle Linux. In their subconscious mind. they want their counterpart to come back and say "what were you talking about? Linux is not easy to use, it's a wase of time" so they can him stupid for it and feel superior to anything/anyone for once in their life. You have to consider it's not really their fault, it's just their brain trying to compensate. We shouldn't be mad at them. This does not apply to developers (actual developers, and most people on this "tech" board aren't developers) because it's understandable if a dev doesn't want to deal with cygwin, mingw, wsl or installing libraries on Windows in the first place. But using Linux as a daily driver it a timesink, so don't fall for the trap.

> I just need it to work without my assistance cause I have shit to do.
Sometimes, Windows breaks too, after an upgrade or update. Unbreakable widely used OS doesn't exist, even macfags are complaining all the time that the new release of their OS brings problems with speed and/or hardware. So, choose your flavor of sufferings and live with it.

That feeling when you loose faith in open source software
>no one wants to pay for the software
>if you sell open source software the cheapskates will fork a gratis version
>lots of great proprietary software is released free of charge, without the source code
>why does it matter
>google sketchup versus Freecad
>lots of great open source software doesn't support linux
>bad hombres benefit greatly from your volunteer work on GPLv2 licenses
>At&t, Microsoft, samsung
>really bad hombres will ignore the license entirely
>the onus is on you to prove that they took your free code and put it in their closed source software
>legal fees crush any hope of justice
>the few times the FSF has sued over this, they have settled for small 2 million dollar donations instead of further legal action
>imagine china
>imagine a country where everyone pirates everything
>imagine the open source license violations
>they can't enforce any law or copyrights over there, even for big companies, so of fucking course they are going to abuse the source code you gave them

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haha, yeah, windows is easier to use. it's easier to be interrupted while working so M$ can install more shitware and spyware

Yes, and I tried a lot of distros before going back to Shitdows.

>It's like Linux devs don't do anything other than Linux-related things in their lives
Linux devs have lives? Seriously though, everyone who recommends linux that I've met has some sort of VERY computer centric lifestyle, and they just never understand the perspective of people who have balanced lifestyles and want things to just work.

I use Arch on all of my computers and it's serving me well. Fucking win kiddie

this problem doesn't exist on BSD

No. windows is just so shit I can never go back to it.