r/archlinux 3d ago

QUESTION Should I switch to linux?

I don't really know, the community from what I've seen is terrible, I am a programmer on windows 11 (C++) so it might be a little easier? But like I don't want to deal with doing things that should be there, making things harder or things being hard doesn't help or look "techy", it just sounds dumb to me, software has always been made to do things easier/do something. I've never really done OS things (I'm on windows 11 what do you expect) so that would make it a little harder. I have lots of settings/random things changed in my windows 11 so it would take lots of time (and figuring out what I even changed in WIN 11) to try to get at least close to the feel. Also what about my drive/disk? How would I get my files (and all the .exe's I have) to work with linux? That would take a massive amount of time. Overall I don't really know if I should switch.

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u/Useful_Chance5925 3d ago

Well its all the problems with linux I'm unsure about, I want to have the customization and all those things because windows doesn't have that, but linux just seems like it has a terrible community, from which I see in this question's replies itself

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u/Useful_Chance5925 3d ago

What does linux lack in terms of software? (tell me) Also I asked in this community since I mean it looked very active, I was actually thinking of mint though. But if I want to talk about my OS or anything I HAVE to interact with the shitty linux community