I blame you guys, no really. I’ve been trying out Linux for 2 days now, just testing it on an old HP Elitebook laptop and now a Poco X3 Pro. There wasn’t an official distro for it but I kinda put a frankenstein version together based on an old guide online. Its hilarious. I predict that by this time next year I’ll be running Linux on everything. Its like finally getting my freedom back after having used Windows for almost 30 years. Before that I used Commodore Amiga (a 1200) exclusively, but had to hop over back then due to work creating some games for the PC and releasing those on CD-Rom.
Windows gets shittier every day and I kinda saw this day coming a mile away. I’ve never truly been a Windows fan but you know I mean you wanna use computers you kinda have to and I’d hate the other alternative even more. I’ve been overjoyed with Linux so far though, despite having some major run-ins due to it having a big learning curve, but thats ok, because I can see its totally worth it.
I dunno when Linux started becoming this good, I mean the last time I touched it was 26 years ago and it crashed under my clumsy hands back then right away. (lol)
However, today, I love what I’m seeing. Its like having my old Amiga back (my real Amiga is being fixed right now, coincidentally) With that phone OS I love that you can just control it trough ADB with root access. Its pretty awesome, yet in example a banking app under waydroid will still see that phone as “not being rooted”.
I wanna mess around more with it today, specially trying to get Wine to work on that poco, and then running stuff like Winamp on it.
I’m pretty new to the Fediverse too in fact I just joined you guys last month but I love what I’m seeing, learning and the information and advice I’m getting. Thank you guys so much, and thank you too for opening my eyes to Linux. It will be real nice not needing Micro$oft anymore.
Anyway, just wanted to share this with you guys. Picture related, its Linux Touch running on one of my old Poco X3 Phones.
So in the mid aughts after osx came out it started to get better. I very big thing was wireless and video card. I distinctly remember a student putting suse on a laptop and being like. wow. everything essetially works. like it could be used right away. now granted it still needed downloaded drivers to get a better experience. I think at that point it started to be an option for a techy types main system but it was not exactly easy. I played with the idea of using linux after that but various things held me back. I got into it with windows certs so did not want to not want to be not used to the interface. I went pretty unix in my career though (honestly about 50/50) and I played with puppy linux and thought about it again when I was impressed by how easy out of the box zorin was. Still my wife was not willing to move and I was doing a thing where I was buying my wife the new laptop and then taking over her older one and im her tech support (honestly she is as good as me for most stuff users encounter. in some ways better due to my lack of patience with basic stuff). Windows 11 was the final straw and I went to zorin but eventually moved to bazzite for the easy steam integration. Anyway just wanted to give an idea of where I saw linux go in that time.
Windows just keeps getting worse and worse, its just not Micro$ofts priority anymore.