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I don’t recommend Linux as a desktop anymore (free99 sold me for a while though).

Still beats windows on older hardware..when it comes to minimal browser boxes Linux is still the best.

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Sebb767|5 years ago

I can't really agree here. I'm very much the definition of a power user and I love the easy accessible configuration (text files FTW) and the overall customizability of it. Working on Windows with hard-to-find GUIs, no tiling WM and overall lack of system control feels like a grind to me.

Sure, some of that is habit, but I've never felt like a Windows machine was truly "mine".

pizza234|5 years ago

That's a bit throwing the baby with the bathwater. There is a significant amount of people who use their machines in extremely simple ways, ie. web browsing. Desktop Linux is perfectly fine for that.

Xolvixica|5 years ago

Unfortunately I have to disagree with even that. Firefox (the default browser in most Linux distros) can't do hardware accelerated video, so you tend to get tearing/stuttering or at the very least a higher CPU load when watching YouTube for example, compared to say Windows, resulting in increased battery consumption if a laptop or at the very least increase fan speeds.

I know it's being worked on with Firefox having acceleration worked on in Wayland, but right now, if even the simplest and most common use-cases have major downsides compared to Windows/OS X, it's hard to justify moving to a worse experience. Windows rules with vendor support, that's just how it is. I've grown tired of having to compromise.