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Ubuntu is growing faster on Windows 11 than on native Linux PCs, says Canonical
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My self-hosted services run on a repurposed thinkstation with a headless Debian install.
I had a Mint VM I loaded up with stuff - bottles, etc. It was all going pretty well, the install was almost as big as winblows which I wasn't excited about, but I really like Mint. I had a Linux Lite VM i was using for a separate secure connection to my work vnc. I didn't want my personal computer being legally discoverable just because I used it to connect to the mothership. On both of those, I wasn't doing a lot of sharing, printing, or other intermediate or hardware tasks.
For what I was doing, it worked pretty mostly fine. There was always a level of tinkering that is beyond what a normie would be willing or able to do. I do get tired of having to manually enter the commands to make the distro display correctly on my ultrawide monitor, but it is understandable.
I don't hate Linux. I like it. It has gotten a lot better in the last 20 years; I've watched it happen. There are just some things that remain frustrating, especially since I'm too dumb to remember CLI along with all the other things I know.