It’s been over a year since I switched to Linux full time - no dual booting. I’ve been playing games, making games, music, and videos, doing schoolwork, taking notes, and more, all with Linux software, and with very few issues.
It feels good to finally be free from windows. Anyone else exclusively use Linux? For how long?
Welcome, glad you’ve made the leap. I’m not an exclusive Linux user at home due to some commercial software requirements that I’m not quite ready to part with. I have been a user since around 1998 when I got my first shell account on my friend’s home server (likely Debian v1!). The rest is history. Linux continues to enrich my life with not only it’s usefulness and features, but the thriving community, that for better or worse, is very passionate about the project. I’ve also made a career out of my experience, very rewarding. I owe a lot to Linux.
I’ve been Linux-only for over twenty years. Welcome to the club! It sure does feel good.
Congrats! For my personal devices, I have used Linux for at least 5 years. I’ve lost count. Unfortunately, I have to use Windows on my work laptop, though I’m not sure that counts considering it’s really company property.
I think you get a free pass, lol. I’m fortunate enough to work at a place that uses Linux for development so there’s actually been months where I haven’t touched windows - going back to it feels wrong now. It’s kinda bizarre how it used to be the other way around.
Congrats! I am also using Linux ‘fulltime’. I’ve been using computers since MSX and finally abandoned Windows as my primary OS in 2005. At work, I always keep a Windows machine around since we have an AD domain and have to keep supporting it, but Linux is great, even more so in the last 5 years when games are running ‘almost’ effortlessly.
If I can make a suggestion, check how you can contribute to your favorite distro. I’ve been helping out on Debian’s pt-br translation team and it’s very satisfying. I strongly recommend it!I’ve made a couple contributions to a program I use a lot (xournal++). I’ve got lots of personal projects though and setting up a dev environment is a bit of a hassle. I have heard docker can by useful for that though so I might look into that for the future.
I had been Linux exclusively for 5 years a while back, but ended up caving and having Windows just for what (at the time) were Windows only games (looking at you DayZ…). At work I run exclusively Linux, and still have a Linux only laptop and netbook at home however. I really prefer Linux, maybe now that Steam has Proton going, and more and more games have Linux builds available, it’s time to re-explore this at home again.
Nice! I switched partially after the fiasco that was the Windows 11 announcement, since I knew that I was not going to use Windows on my personal rigs after that. Built a new PC back in November, and have happily been Linux-only on it ever since. I’ve encountered a few issues that forced me back to Windows for a time (early adopter issues, since my rig was using relatively new parts), but in general I’ve been super happy to be free of Windows (with the exception of my laptop).
I’ve gone back and forth a bit in the past too, music production in particular was a mixed bag for a while until I figured out a setup that worked for me.
Cheers brother! I’ve been windows free for 2 years straight, I used Linux for 4 years straight in high school before I got a new computer as well :D
AWESOME! Congrats!
I have not used windows since MS announced Windows 8. I took one look at it and just decided that I’m out. I believe this was 2011-2012. Gaming was a headache at the time. It’s unbelievable how far gaming and hardware support have come in this time.
I have been using Linux since 1994. No double booting, just Linux. I don’t see a problem with that.
Technically only a few weeks I think, but I have been switching back and forth for a few years now. I have exclusively used Linux before, I have dual-booted before and I have exclusively used windows. It’s all huge mess to be honest. I always said that each time I gave it another go, that Linux has gotten noticeably better and I will eventually be free from windows.
Well, it seems that now is that time. Feels great. I do also work on this machine, so this is pretty big for me.I switched right after the steamdeck was announced. I had to see for myself if linux could finally work for gaming, and by golly did it!
What was intended to be a short trial run in advance of getting a deck, became permanent. Both my laptops, desktop, and of course my steamdeck, have been linux since.
I do NOT comprehend people who get a deck, and then put windows on it. And it’s only getting better, using bottles to get Overwatch 2 running a few months back, was a breeze.
I made the switch to Linux on my gaming desktop 7-ish years ago, but I still had a relatively new macbook at the time and no reason to toss it. I thought I might need it for some proprietary software, such as updating the firmware on some gadget, but I never did. Apple recently decided to stop shipping OS updates for it, so now I’m 100% Linux as of this year. Thanks, Apple!
