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I finally took the chance and moved away from Windows on my daily driver. I am squashing bugs and weird system issues as they come up, and it's been really fun. I'm so happy to have switched. (programming.dev)
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[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Glad to hear it. Once you get some momentum going using Linux as your daily driver it gets a lot easier and smoother

[–] starship_lizard@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So far it's been a lot of troubleshooting for just some random issues. There were some quirks with some of the hardware I have that I had to figure out, but the Arch Wiki is so helpful. Even for really niche things and situations. Knock on wood, but I think I'm finally at a point where it's stable on my system. Hasn't crashed on me once yet today.

[–] nottheengineer@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

The wiki is also why I chose arch, it's just so good. And if you can't figure stuff out on your own, ask on the forums. I screwed my keyboard up so hard it would only work inside the tty and stop working when I launch SDDM, posted on the arch forum and after a little back and forth we figured it out. That took less than 12 hours and it was the best support I ever got on anything. Plus, it's now there for anyone to find in case they run into the same issue.

[–] MagicShel@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just a couple of weeks ago pulled my hard drive with windows and went with Mint for a good GUI (plus while I'm not an expert on any of them, I have the most experience with Ubuntu). I had some upgrade issues that I had to roll back a couple of times and got some scary failures to boot, but I was able to recover with Google searches.

[–] b9chomps@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

I'm having a similar experience. Tackling one issue or goal a day is fun. Getting syncthing to start with systemd. Loading the correct module on startup to get OpenRGB to run correctly. ...

I will probably never be a power user, but so far Arch is fun. I hope your experience will stay great as well

[–] autokludge@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Great! I've been really happy with the new daily I picked up. I was actually having a few gpu driver related game crashes under win10 so gave it a try installing them on linux. Have had no issues running the same games with proton and open drivers.

[–] Dragster39@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which media player is that if I may ask?

[–] autokludge@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

termusic -- was messing around with idea to make my own toy tui music player, and this came up when I was searching for prior work on how to segment 'player' from the ui. It apparently supports cover images in kitty / wezterm.

[–] ImpossibleRubiksCube@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I swear switching off of Windows to Linux is like leaving an abusive family... you don't realize how bad it was until you've got retrospect.