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127 ◴[] No.45038436[source]
Just recently moved onto Linux. Most likely not coming back when these kind of things just keep happening. I'm really surprised how well everything works. 120Hz HDR 4k Nvidia no issues on Wayland. Kubuntu 25.04/Plasma 6.3 is very nice. EasyEffects/PipeWire makes audio better compared to Windows. Steam/Proton/Wine works very well for games outside ones that have kernel level rootkits. Outside DualSense controller having issues connecting to bluetooth I can't think of anything that's worse than Windows while many things are better.
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gregoryl ◴[] No.45038531[source]
Ditto; ~20 years of dotnet dev, 1000+ games on steam. Couldn't be more baked into the ecosystem. Its just the work laptop left with windows now, and the team is working to support a non-windows dev env.
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ActionHank ◴[] No.45039518[source]
This was me a few years back.

My wife switched this year after only ever using Windows and pure dotnet dev.

The first thing she said was "how is it so fast"

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beng-nl ◴[] No.45041044[source]
Which distribution is she using, out of curiosity? I wonder if I could do this for (to) my wife..
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ActionHank ◴[] No.45043390{3}[source]
I helped her get started with endeavourOS.

She has me for tech support though and she’s a dev which helps.

I would go with popOS or Ubuntu if the tech support isn’t an option.

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1. mikrotikker ◴[] No.45049199{4}[source]
Wife is not technical at all. Put her on Ubuntu when she freaked out about her windows 7 PC updating automatically to windows 10. She been on it ever since.