Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
Me, coder, student, cant afford mid range PCs, interested in learning computers, gamer, not professional. What about you guys?
I didn’t choose Linux. Linux chose me.
But in all seriousness, back in 2015, I got a PC that came with Windows 8. It had the horrible, completely unusable Metro UI. But my main gripe with that OS was how it forced me to use Microsoft’s solutions over everything else. Quite often, the PDF files I opened would launch in the Metro PDF reader instead of the one I had chosen. Usually, this kind of things happened after a Windows Update, which ‘accidentally’ reset my default application choices - including the PDF reader - and, as a final spat in my face, added an Internet Explorer shortcut to my desktop.
I started to feel as if I had no control over my PC anymore; it was Microsoft deciding what software I should use. Then and there I decided it was time to give Linux a chance. I had already noticed how Valve was pushing the gaming industry toward Linux, and I thought, those guys can’t be completely wrong.
Thankfully Windows 8 was a quickly passing beast and a lot of people managed to avoid it, through knowledge or luck. Windows 11 has not been so lucky.