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1970-01-01·

Eh, this is going to sound like a I'm a stick in the mud, but I've tried Linux about a dozen times now, and every time has eventually led to 'a Linux evening' that disenchants me from the fantasy and back to reality. It's fantastic as a server OS, however.

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Try it again if you haven't recently. I'm unsure what specific issues you encountered, but anecdotally I can say I've been driving Fedora full-time on my home workstation for nearly 2 years now. I love it. I drove Fedora full-time on my laptop off-and-on for nearly a decade as well before that.

For me, gaming was what kept me away. But, besides a few titles, it's been a non-issue. It was very pleasantly surprising.

My desktop runs Fedora Kinoite[1] - an immutable version of Fedora. It poses a set of unique challenges for a development workstation (my primary use), but has resulted in rock-solid stability through several major OS upgrades, and a lot of development-related hackery.

I don't see myself going back to Windows anytime in the future. Every time I'm at the office an on my Win11 machine, I remember why I switched in the first place. Just my experience though.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

Often Linux is great, until You update some esoteric dependency that breaks a bunch of stuff, and fixing it is just a little past your experience level …

That's the best part of the immutable versions, containers by default so weird dependency interactions are minimized, system is stable and has a good rollbacks in case something does go wrong, and updates are more or less invisible

Takes some getting used to, but has really been a smooth experience

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