With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).

There. That’s out of the way. I recently installed Linux on my main desktop computer and work laptop, overwriting the Windows partition completely. Essentially, I deleted the primary operating system from the two computers I use the most, day in and day out, instead trusting all of my personal and work computing needs to the Open Source community. This has been a growing trend, and I hopped on the bandwagon, but for good reasons. Some of those reasons might pertain to you and convince you to finally make the jump as well. Here’s my experience.

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  • smeenz@lemmy.nz
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    6 days ago

    Your work laptop ? I guess you work somewhere where corporate policy isn’t dictated and you’re able to do that.

    • evol@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      5 days ago

      My work just handed me a laptop then let me flash whatever distro I wanted onto it

    • HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOP
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      5 days ago

      I am not the article author. But I am doing mainly signal processing and embedded development, and most places I worked for in the last 25 years either have switched to Linux (and pay better because it’s more productive), or allow a development machine or VM with Linux. (Granted, in one company, I wrecked the department head’s nerves with using git instead of MS Team Foundation Server and MS source forge, but now it’s ten years later and even they offer a Linux platform product now, since Microsoft pulled Windows CE for not being able to compete with Linux.)