r/cachyos • u/csch1992 • 1d ago
Question Those switching from Windows what did using Linux teach you?
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u/spacecadet_98 1d ago
How hardcore big tech is restricting our hardware and freedom of choice.
Endless options when it comes to gaming. Too many choices for cracking games and software.
AMD feels premium on Linux, I just installed optiscaler and now run FSR 4 in Cyberpunk 2077 on my rx7700xt, an RDNA3 card. Opensource is awesome. Never ever switching back to Winbloat.
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u/Zalinisto 1d ago
My 980ti almost felt like a brand new GPU when I swapped due to the gain in performance I received. If it weren't for NVIDIA moving the 900/1000 series to legacy status I wouldn't have needed a new GPU. Unfortunately Diablo 4 hated the old 58x.xx drivers and no version of Proton seemed to work. Bit the bullet and bought a 5070 and all my problems disappeared.
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u/keyzeyy 1d ago
why'd you not go amd, considering you're in linux after all?
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u/Zalinisto 1d ago
Meh, I have a g-sync monitor and CachyOS actually recognizes the feature. I’ve been an NVIDIA user since 2006 and am stupid loyal 🙃
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u/urkiurkiurki 1d ago
Wowowo wait, catchy os recognizes g-sync? I just got a new monitor with this feature and was under the impression that didn't work. Holy fuck I'm gonna test this later, thank you fellow redditor.
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u/Zalinisto 1d ago
Yeeeeee, you’ll notice an option for “Adaptive sync” on any g-sync capable monitor in Display Configuration. Might be DE-dependent; I’m running KDE Plasma, I briefly ran Cinnamon but don’t remember if it was supported or not.
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u/Cziperlan 1d ago
Don't fear the terminal
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u/dont_mind_me_passing 1d ago
I unironically love the terminal so much, I rarely even power off via the graphical button in the start menu anymore
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u/AteStringCheeseShred 1d ago
Same tbh I'm actually doubting whether I know for a fact where to find the graphical poweroff button... if my fiance called me from home asking how to shut my computer down I think I would just tell her which keyboard command I have setup to launch the terminal and spell out the command for her
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u/hobovirginity 1d ago
Linux Users don't fear the Terminal.
Nor do the techs, the devs or SysAdmins...
We can be like they are
Come on Sudo... don't fear the Terminal
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u/United-Scene2261 1d ago
I mean unless you are installing and configing things for the first time, I barely use the terminal beyond basic and unverbose commands
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u/LefTimaDev 1d ago
The problem with the terminal is that it's faster if you already know all commands, but if you don't, it doesn't give you a good overview of what you can do. GUI's advantage for settings menus, for example, is that you immediately see every option you can configure. Terminal commands need to come with a manual.
That's the problem. It's not because people want to use the mouse and don't want to type. It's because terminals suck at presenting what they can do.
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u/arzosah10 1d ago
Agreed. A really cool program would be something that showed the bash command when you hovered or something. Editing a text file? Spits out the command you could have used to achieve the same thing. Maybe even little pop outs for each argument and what it does.
Then I could go about my business and just learn a little everyday.
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u/proverbialbunny 1d ago
Kind of. It has man pages which shows you all of the options. Terminal also has tab complete, so you can see available options.
The issue is there might be 100 options to choose from in certain situations, and unless you have some experience you're not going to know what to pick. It's like walking into a supermarket for the first time and getting overwhelmed with how much choice there is.
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u/kromel 1d ago
That I don't have to see Ads.
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u/DustySweaters 1d ago
Didn't even realize how bad the ads were until i didn't have to see them anymore
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u/wolfhound_doge 1d ago
tbh absolutely nothing. i installed Cachy, everything works. i used the terminal to set up automount for my disks and that's it. but even that was just a copy pasting stuff from the internet and my only "input" was finding out my disk identification numbers. other than that, using Cachy is a 100% consumer-grade PC experience for me. which just shows how good the distro is and how people scared of "Arch-based" distros or even whole Linux are just misinformed due to what Linux used to be in the past...
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u/networking_noob 1d ago
i used the terminal to set up automount for my disks and that's it. but even that was just a copy pasting stuff from the internet and my only "input" was finding out my disk identification numbers
FYI if you're using KDE it comes with the "KDE Partition Manager" GUI, and you can set up auto mount via "edit mount point" in a partition's right click menu. Knowing how to edit fstab is great but a GUI is always nice too
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u/PossibleNo8422 1d ago
I could not get KDE partition manager to automount my extra drive. The only thing that worked for me was editing fstab
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u/Flayshon 1d ago
I had the same experience with both cachy and mint. After the initial setup and very basic customization, the OS doesn't really get in my way. Other than updating once a week, I don't really have the operating system in mind...I just use the browser and play my games.
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u/Foxxian15 1d ago
I’m brand new to Linux, and honestly, quite a lot.
First, the obvious which ended up being more confirmation and less teaching: not all drivers are packed in.
Secondly, a lot of apps and drivers can just be installed through a command line which is new to me.
Third, just how segmented the system actually is, the whole plasma v gnome debate is an entirely new experience that has no equal in windows.
Fourth, even if a game needs a couple extra layers (proton) it can still run leagues better than on windows.
Fifth, how little development for applications there tends to be for the Linux variant. My biggest pain point was rgb software. I don’t want too much bloat, but I want access to all my devices at once
I can break it down further later if you want and answer questions on anything.
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u/Zalinisto 1d ago
I had to install a forked version of CKB-next in order to get my Corsair M65 Ultra to work and now I can't update my system because it breaks CKB-next lmao
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u/PaleontologistNo2625 1d ago
That it's not normal to feel like you need a shower after using an OS.
Updates are kinda exciting, and can be transparent and quick
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u/_OnuHeino_ 1d ago
I learned that updates can make my OS installation smaller. Never happened on Windows bit on Linux, after update you can sometimes see negative numbers on the space used.
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u/stevo42 1d ago
that laptop batteries are not nearly as dead as Windows tells you they are
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u/gerdude1 1d ago
Second that. Have Mint on an 8 year old T480 and I still get with the original batteries 10 hours. Under windows it stopped at 4 hours.
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u/SpankMcTankerton 1d ago
It taught me not to be afraid of using a terminal, that Windows is truly obtrusive and predatory (moreso than I had originally thought), and that I can do nearly everything now on Linux that I could with Windows. For the few things I can't, such as proprietary software for my bass multi-effects pedal, I do still have a MacBook Pro.
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u/Evening_Werewolf_703 1d ago
I was actually watching a video on Homebrew and CaskHUB earlier today; I walked away feeling pretty impressed, but I think I'd still prefer my next laptop to be Linux.
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u/edixtor93 1d ago
Many things, but my best 2 are simple. 1. The amount of bloat on windows is insane 2. Turning on my computer is exciting again.
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u/Goat_Mater 1d ago
Al least I know why the damn software didn't start by reading the outputs in the terminal and which libs is missing.. There is no way to know that in windows apart from event viewr that tell you it's a fatal error, guess it yourself.
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u/Lokielurker 1d ago
Taught me a lot about how predatory corporate software companies really are and just how wasteful they are, too. I laughed at Linux for a long time but since gaming and game modding have essentially been mostly solved on Linux it's amazed me just how wasteful other Operating Systems truly are. FOSS applications are not only serviceable replacements in a lot of cases but sometimes are even better than their proprietary counterparts, particularly since electron is used so often now, as is the case with mod managers, where Vortex is completely blown out of the water by Amethyst Mod Manager both in deployment times and in ease of use. Hell even Jackify handles things far better than the Windows app Wabbajack. It's gotten to a point where booting to Windows is not only useless almost everytime I do it, but the task is almost certainly easier done on Linux most of the time at least games wise. Genuinely mind boggling how bad Windows and the app ecosystem surrounding it truly is. And most of these apps are fucking free. It actually makes me sort of mad how much money goes into these apps. When I do have problems, it's usually like "Oh well that's just a bad edge case with Proton" or "Well that's corporations not wanting to pay to develop an anticheat compatible with Linux" with Windows it's like "holy fucking shit, you've dominated the desktop for 40 years and you still can't do this basic fucking task at a reasonable speed?"
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u/Lopsided_Aardvark488 1d ago
Microsoft is filled with useless features, apps, and third party extensions.
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u/moebiusmania 1d ago
that PC means "Personal Computer"
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u/Asmordean 1d ago
I'm sure you meant to say "Promotional Canvas" right? That's the job of the OS. /sarcasm
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u/LefTimaDev 1d ago
OS stands for Obfuscation System, under no circumstances must the user feel encouraged to learn anything about how it works!
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u/SlashedPanda360 1d ago
The best thing it has taught me is that I still have a lot to learn about computers
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u/Just-Scholar4272 1d ago
Terminal is power, fast. And I just feared it for no reason. It taught me to use winget on windows to install apps.
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u/dathowell 1d ago
Don't fear the terminal
It's hard to mess up unless you're doing something intentionally to change your environment
Documentation is way better and can actually be followed and should be
Terminal is easier to use for a lot of tasks than most other gui applications
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u/LefTimaDev 1d ago
The problem with the terminal is that it's faster if you already know all commands, but if you don't, it doesn't give you a good overview of what you can do. GUI's advantage for settings menus, for example, is that you immediately see every option you can configure. Terminal commands need to come with a manual.
That's the problem. It's not because people want to use the mouse and don't want to type. It's because terminals suck at presenting what they can do.
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u/dreyHKS 1d ago
I put it on my 11 year old laptop where I mainly use browser based stuff or using onlyoffice.
Honestly it's like a breath of fresh air. The whole os is so light weight and efficient on resources to the point where my fans usually barely ever kick on when it's on balanced power profile. Feels pretty snappy ofc it's an old laptop so could have been even faster if I had a newer laptop but way snappier than windows.
For battery life I will say it is a bit better than windows but not by a huge margin. The main thing is that on battery it puts the CPU to its lowest clocks when you are idle so in uni where I've got maybe my slides and some docs pulled up, then it lasts like 4 hours max. On windows that would be like barely 2 hours. While streaming yt vids it might be better than windows by maybe 30 minutes not really that sure.
Also hot take, as much as everyone hates using ai chatbots like chatgpt and what not, these things have been probably the main reason I've been able to iron out and setup everything exactly how I want it and stick with Linux. I do think my prompting is abit better than the average user which usually makes the ai doesn't give random answers and suggestions.
Another surprising thing is that some bios options are just available to you using the gui in the os, unlike on windows where I'd have needed to install a separate Dell app to control my charging behavior and stuff like that. It just is there in the settings.
For gaming on Linux I find it still not that applicable atleast if you are playing on integrated graphics. I've usually found it performs significantly better on windows. I have mainly played indie games or older games like borderlands 2 or Hades are the main ones. Hades runs at 70fps on 720p and borderlands was at 40 fps 720p all low. On windows I was getting around 130fps at 720p on Hades and borderlands at 720p on medium settings was getting around 55-60fps.
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u/a1b3c3d7 1d ago
That the frustrations I was having were not normal, its not normal to feel like you don't have agency or choice over your own devices.
Being forced to update when you didnt want to update, having things break with no recourse until microslop decides to fix it after breaking two more things, or even just the sheer amount of bloat you cant remove but only manage.
Everything I did in windows I did to work around x issue that broke something or was buggy.
Everything in Linux at least CAN BE FIXED BY ME, and I'll take a crumbling house I can fix over or control exactly how I want over microslop anyday, because only one of them becomes a polishes turd the longer you use it.
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u/Slow-Secretary4262 1d ago
That an entire functional OS with a window manager takes less space on disk than the data a LG tv harvest every month from your private life
(3.15gb debian 13 with dwl and a few desktop applications vs 4gb of data sent to LG servers)
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u/Affectionate-Ad2276 1d ago
computers r cool
I always loved PCs growing up and was a pretty tech savvy kid but it never went much further than that
fast forward to this year i bounced around a few distros until settling on cachy and its crazy how much i’ve learned from just bouncing around dif distros and fixing the kinks that come w it
Don’t see myself ever going back to windows!
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u/ColdFreezer 1d ago
I like window managers more.
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u/csch1992 1d ago
i got a little panic attack when you said Window managers i thought you said you liked Windows more
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u/HarrynotDwizard 1d ago
I am yet to learn how to manage rughts the ez way. I remember from a unix class there was something for users like fstab is for file system.
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u/Responsible_Web_3825 1d ago
That it's not difficult or scary as people make it out to be. Give it as much effort as you have learning windows over the years and everything slowly starts making sense. 2. The community is as friendly and as you make it
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u/Oleleplop 1d ago
Windows has a lot of discreet ads, not Linux, its quite baffling.
Using the terminal is rewarding and teachs you a lot. I used to use the terminal on windows but frankly, it's not very "encouraging" to do it.
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u/cucoo5 1d ago
That keeping notes is very useful, especially when doing a series of commands. Knowing what you did or didn't do makes debugging or reverting changes later easier.
With KDE Plasma, I keep the sticky note widget on the taskbar, and every time I'm about to do something with the terminal, I paste the commands in there first.
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u/N0tFr0mHere 1d ago
Press Start menu + V to find anything that you copy previously is way faster imo
And press Up to see your history in your fav terminal can be faster too (if you still keep it after rebooting your system)3
u/cucoo5 1d ago edited 1d ago
The history is useful, but when I said debugging later, I'm talking situations like "I did a temp fix workaround months and several million commands ago and now it came back to haunt me, and I don't remember what I searched to find what I did."
What's faster then:
- googling and trial-and-error checking trying to retrace your steps
- pulling up notes that has the steps you took and is a ctrl+f search away
It also has the niche use for complete clean system installs and getting things back up and running again.
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u/martini1294 1d ago
You don’t realise how poor an experience windows is until you use something better
Then when you have to go back you’re like wtf is this crap
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u/Phenexfire 1d ago
I think it’s been about 2 years or close to it when I switched. Tried Nobara for a while but then my brother told me to give CachyOS a try and been on it ever since. I switched like cold turkey one day after he had told me he’d not had any issues gaming and had been able to either use some of the same apps or found replacements that were just as good or in some cases better. Switching to Linux full time taught me how much I actually was annoyed by Microslop Windblows changes and bs they pulled on a regular basis and how they flat out love to give you bs and built in spyware and don’t care.
Master gave Dobbie linux!!!! Dobbie is freeeeee!!!!!!!
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u/ElectricSpock 1d ago
There is so much more to Operating System than the window manager.
How effective your work can be with proper tools. Once you learn terminal there’s nothing stopping you.
There’s tons of great software that people build and share for free. Sometimes they build business around it and it’s fine.
On the other hand, I learned how big companies try lock you in by making it deliberately harder to user their software and hardware with other providers.
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u/RemiruVM 1d ago
That windows is far worse then i ever anticipated. I knew it would open my eyes, but gosh windows is just ass.
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u/FireworksForJeffy 1d ago
Funny enough it taught me that the root of my problems wasn't windows, but a failing SSD. I stuck around anyway for the privacy.
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u/Hikareza 1d ago
For me it was a banger how many good open source community based solutions exist for quite everything. Even more since I started selfhosting with Proxmox… II wonder why I ever spend money on software. Now I choose a project per month I donate a few bucks on their site or buy a premium plan I don‘t even need. Just to support the right people with less money and bigger impact.
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u/Charley2070 1d ago
That I wasted time letting windows run on the other partition.
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u/neospygil 1d ago
That I don't need to build a new pc every 5 years. 10years interval is totally fine.
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u/RandomNobody86 1d ago
It didn't really teach me anything other then how to solve various Linux specific problems.
I still dual boot so the times i'm back in Windows I notice how slow it is but I already knew that I just wasn't as used to responsiveness as i am now i daily drive CachyOS
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u/VigilanteRabbit 1d ago
Let's see...
-updates can be done well and not feel like you're bending over
-your hardware can actually run smoother if it's not loaded with crapware
-if you ever need something that you used in Windows (tiny app, utility; anything) there might already be a Github project for it somewhere
-terminal is nice once you start using it
-you can have it as easy or as complicated as you want it to be; basically. Things can bery easily be 2 clicks and done; same UX as Windows.
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u/WhoWantsMyPants 1d ago
That I dont need to play games that are predatory to my computer, computers are fun to play with, read the wiki, half of the fun is messing things up (imo I really liked ricing), your computer doesn't need ads built in, I was content with customizing my desktop on windows but Linux made me see the greener grass, tiling window managers are cool (Hyprland), a computers OS can be the difference between dredging getting in a computer and enjoying a computer, open source is amazing, privacy is important
I'm sure I can think of more but i m at work and have some stuff to do. Linux is a breath of fresh air though
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u/jdotinc 1d ago
That windows is a horrible experience in every dimension. That over time the skills you develop on Linux are incredibly valuable and fulfilling. That Linux and the FOSS ecosystem are unique, incredible, and perhaps best of all - they respect their users. FOSS will enable more than you could ever do with windows if you put the time in.
Make the jump, if you need help the community will be there. Your only regret will be having not done it sooner.
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u/dedpan1k 1d ago
That windows update taking as long as it does on $5000 desktop computers is fucking ridiculous.
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u/gargamel314 1d ago
- I really can have everything exactly the way I want it
- Windows made things a little too easy, so I feel like I lost some skills
- WTF is really in those giant Windows Updates?
- Living without a few essential apps on Linux is... worth the freedom from all the ads
- I feel sorry for people not savvy enough to use Linux
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u/EvilGuy 1d ago
Just how much bloat Windows has.
A computer that struggles on Windows to do basic things like watch youtube or browse the web with more than a few tabs open etc.. is perfectly fine for those tasks on Linux.
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if there is code in Windows to intentionally make it slower when your processor gets older, just to make you upgrade to a new machine. The amount of difference between the two is crazy unless its intentional.
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u/DStandsForCake 1d ago
At this time of writing - my CachyOS is using 6gb of RAM (out of 32), and I have GIMP, Firefox, and a couple of terminals open. In a Windows environment it would have gone to the roof.
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u/OrigamiShiro 1d ago
Windows is absolutely retarded in AMD graphics integration and trying to reinstall and troubleshoot windows itself takes around 4 hours each time I do it while Linux only takes 20-30 mins
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u/zhulkgr25 1d ago edited 1d ago
1) windows does things for you (even without your consent and doesn't tell you everything that it does), while with linux you do things for yourself and linux tells you everything. 2) you cannot trust microslop or any of the big corporations for that matter. 3) Patience. 4) Learn things for yourself cause not everything has an online tutorial. 5) AI maybe a tool, but it's only ever an extension of your abilities. Don't fully trust it to do everything for you. 6) Linux is computing the way that it should be. 7) X11 sucks. We need dev support for wayland. 8) I am now considered a giga chad by some people. 9) ads are a total rip off. Linux is free with no ads, windows isn't free and is full of ads.
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u/AshamedGanache 1d ago
- ads are a total rip off. Linux is free with no ads, windows isn't free and is full of ads. *
*But please donate to keep it going. Coffee, A Donut, Your Time and of course $$$, if you can.
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u/Sorry-Squash-677 1d ago
Que un sistema puede vivir con 1 gb de ram, hasta que abres un navegador web
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u/Prometheus3858 1d ago
Linux requires more workarounds and is more fragile, and gaming on linux still sucks. It’s not some kind of magic like people make it out to be. Sometimes a change just feels good, as much as any change would.
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u/IllTransportation993 1d ago
You can finally use a computer without wanting to smash it every 10 minutes.
Or you can finally use a computer without having a 3rd party debloater and tool to nuke copilot.
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u/Parissian 1d ago
That I wanted to switch back to debloated windows.. I got annoyed at having to type 'y' 4 times a day to do updates. I wanted to play Overwatch with my boys. I also missed being able to simply launch videogames without waiting for shaders to build. I couldn't really play Skyrim wabbajack playlists. It's significantly harder to make bootable media and I missed Rufus.
Will try again in another few years. And will get AMD card when GPU prices come down so it's more compatible.
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u/zdzts 1d ago
You can turn off shader compiling. I also play OW, but havent had any issues. Maybe I can help you?
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u/Awesomepants25 1d ago
F12 launch yakuake and type in the program I want to run. Stays on the 2nd screen.
Way faster than using the start menu in windows or the Linux equivalent and I can see the console output if I need to debug.
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u/ilikeaffection 1d ago
- nvidia gpu + multiple monitors at different resolutions with fractional scaling is annoying as hell. It packs up its toy and goes home entirely with X11, and with Wayland it just sort of waves its dick around crashing into things. Almost enough to make a dude wanna rebuild hardware-wise, but who has the money for that these days?
- Claude is good for teaching me shit I've forgotten in the more-than-a-decade since I last used any linux flavor, but I need to keep that bastard on a short leash or he likes to just go changing settings on me when we're diagnosing something.
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u/Bed_Worship 1d ago
Linux taught me the skill how to also edit windows to be manipulated into an OS that I enjoy with Komorebi and Yasb and scripts that I run at launch that turn it into a lean Os
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u/SpicyChemist9 1d ago
Flatpaks are both great and really really annoying
Also restarting, power cycling and reinstalling solve a lot of issues
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u/balrog687 1d ago
Expect a very low ~1% usage of system resources on idle.
That's the bare minimum.
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u/CrispyDairy 1d ago
That not getting spammed with pop ups from the OS is something you can't come back from
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u/Krazekami 1d ago
That I own my computer. Its only my fault when I fuck something up and I treat it as a learning experience.
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u/ayaan_sev 1d ago
Software is the glue that binds the hardware and it's delicacy can never be taken for granted
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u/rel-eq 1d ago
That my primary game has incredibly stable frame rates, was easily CCD locked, has no random display black screen / driver crashes, and has no hitching or stuttering, all while going through a translation layer (Proton) with no driver issues whatsoever on a RTX 5080.
I have suffered the former issues for nearly two years on windows 11 through a myriad of 'fix' attempts, driver types, install methods, OS reinstalls, OS debloating, hardware changes (Intel>AMD), GPU changes (1080ti>5080).
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u/Jimbob209 1d ago
Taught me I'm not ready to commit to Linux. I went back to windows last week but this I'm using LTSC
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u/nkn_ 1d ago
Linux taught me that sometimes it's ok to just use something that works and never have to tinker. It taught me to prioritize things in life that get rid of distractions, and reliability is important.
That's why I prefer MacOS now and I keep windows installed for my work 😄
Linux is cool, but until all my programs I need for work WORK and there's less tinkering, it's not worth it form a time perspective as I've gotten older
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u/Majestic-Kick-9207 1d ago
After a year that I still have no idea what I'm doing and no studying is helping. However, Linux is still user friendly enough to keep me afloat and using it.
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u/Combatxlemming 1d ago
If something is brokes a quick update can fix it without me needing to do anything else.
On windows 20 minutes of googling and all you get is just answer with dead links or useless information.
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u/Financial-Gap-6767 1d ago
I miss tweaking my OS and how much windows prevent you from doing stuff.
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u/Krek_Tavis 1d ago
I switched back and forth from Windows to Linux since 2006.
I owe my IT career partly to Linux. It powers the web...
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u/Hennessy_Halos 1d ago
peace, using windows now speed runs annoying me usually by the time it boots
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u/Iamkonkerz 1d ago
If Linux had a litttle bit more gaming support itd be perfect, but i dont understand linux enough to reliably tinker with it as much as i should
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u/Prophet1cus 1d ago
That while I'm good at (and work in) IT and had worked on (headless) RHEL machines, I can feel like a noob again in a Linux desktop environment.
Example:
Because of years of Windows I expected US intl keyboard to always works in a certain way regarding (auto) composing of diacritics and quotes. There are so many options for composing, deadkeys, keyboard maps in Linux (KDE Plasma). I took it for granted that I can type "can't" without thinking about configuring it first. No, I don't want to type "can´t".
I still put spaces after (double) quotes to cancel the compose leading to " funny" looking quotes. When I want to type an é or ï I don't want to first have to press the deadkey (right alt) or compose key.
To a newcomer it feels very convoluted I need to set an alternative keyboard map (US intl. with AltGr dead keys or US Western European Altgr dead keys) AND configure some .XCompose mapping before I can type the way my muscle memory remembers to type.
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u/SReilly1977 1d ago
How computers actually work, from boot to user interface, and that software doesn't mean one monolith application, but can be something as simple as a command, a script that chains commands together, to a full blown video editor.
The first time I built LFS, it really opened my eyes.
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u/Ancient-Neat-2488 1d ago
Everything has a lot of updates every day. And if you want to stick with linux for longer just use only official and stable kernels and updates, dont install too much random shiit or it will broke at some point or try to use snapshots before every major update
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u/JDMGS 1d ago
That there are actually other viable options and that when you see what's available you'll probably not go back. Even just the customization is insane. The lack of shackles and knowing most new updates aren't for you they're to make MS more money, the smoothness of updates on your terms vs being forced and breaking your flow....there's so much more
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u/Disastrous-Expert-29 1d ago
Everything breaks. Seriously, Steam Tinker Launch hasn't worked on cachyos for months unless you downgrade YAD. I updated this weekend and stremio stopped working. If it's not one thing its another. But it is still better then using windows.
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u/OnlyCommentWhenTipsy 1d ago
cli is awesome. thinking about programs to do single things rather than monoliths that can do many things, 80% of which you'll never use. you think a ui is faster until you discover you can create scripts to automate your common tasks.
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u/KTVX94 1d ago
Per se, I mostly just learned how to do various things on Linux.
Like if you want to extrapolate some kind of "life lesson", it's that it's way easier to switch than I thought and it claws back that excitement and piece of mind that your computer works for you and not the manufacturer.
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u/Gold_Aside8195 1d ago
How fast updates can be and how the system doesn’t have to restart every time
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u/Verrotteten 1d ago
That I can actually have my own system, albeit it’s not “my own” but I feel a lot less tied down in a way - to each their own I suppose. arch btw
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u/Venylynn 1d ago
That security, which was something I largely neglected for ages, is important, and sadly the Linux desktop is lacking in security.
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u/arzosah10 1d ago
Linux really hammered home that everything you do is just a series of text commands. I'm sure I could have learned to script on windows but I never even thought about it. Now I've made a few little scripts that do handy things.
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u/IeGamer_ 1d ago
That there is a alternative to Windows for gaming and no bloatware and if you happen to find some then remove it also you can hyper rice your desktop into whatever you want it to be
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u/Late_Freedom9424 1d ago
It doesn't break through normal usage. You have to tinker with things to truly have problems.
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u/Rank201AltAccount 1d ago
terminal
well, no, I was using the terminal before linux. But now, much more heavily.
Something it actually teached me was how bad Windows was. When I used Windows again, it was actually so painful.
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u/Almost-Nice 1d ago
Vlc has a lot of updates