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wiped windows from my home PC and installed Ubuntu 24.04 last week

zero regrets, tired of Microsoft's terrible quality, terrible security, terrible ads - good riddance

I'm gonna do this with debian in 2025 when windows 10 runs out of security updates. Proton has been great on my steamdeck so I probably won't miss out on many games.

i was also tempted to just go the debian route - but the free Ubuntu Pro subscription for personal use with 12 years of bug/security updates (and ultimately, peace of mind) was what won me over - I hate reinstalling or upgrading my OS so over a decade of not changing anything is really appealing to me.

i've been playing my steam games with Proton so far and it's been solid

10 years, not 12.

But I think the bigger issue is that after 2 years you won't be getting newer kernels, just fixes to the one you have.

I haven't had Windows in the home for a good 10-ish years now. While that is good for my personal use. It is bad when others need help with their computers and my skill set of windows support has atrophied.

My experience of Windows is via the very locked down work place and it is not great.

i can only hope my windows "skills" atrophy so that I can tell my family to stop bothering me to fix all their computer problems :P

i've started telling them to just buy a macbook

same. been on EndeavourOS/KDE/Plasma exclusively for almost 4 years.

tried Mint and Manjaro before that. if i had to use a ubuntu derivative, i'd probably try Pop!_OS.

did the same with Fedora, still have to use Windows at work (and support it, it is my job after all)

it really is so much smoother of an experience nowadays.

had a few small bumps getting everything I need configured and running the way I need it, but now that I have everything the way I like it it's damn near perfect

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