Re:How and why I transitioned to Linux, and how you can too
by falcrist on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:51PM
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> Lately, I have had few problems installing and running Linux on the various cheap laptops I've bought.
For the last year and change, I've carried a particularly fast thumb drive with Linux Mint installed on it (it's actual mint, rather than an installer/preview image). I'm constantly surprised by how many machines it "just works" with. Laptops from many different brands, workstations and desktops, AMD, Intel, Nvidia... Everything I plug it into seems to work fine.
With that in mind, I want to echo the sentiments in other comments. I'm still using Windows, but only because of the software.
At home I run windows only because of the software I use (Photoshop/Lightroom, games, and Equalizer APO).
At work I still need to use Windows simply because the toolchains I use are often exclusive to windows (Visual Studio and Atmel Studio in particular).
For the last year and change, I've carried a particularly fast thumb drive with Linux Mint installed on it (it's actual mint, rather than an installer/preview image). I'm constantly surprised by how many machines it "just works" with. Laptops from many different brands, workstations and desktops, AMD, Intel, Nvidia... Everything I plug it into seems to work fine.
With that in mind, I want to echo the sentiments in other comments. I'm still using Windows, but only because of the software.
At home I run windows only because of the software I use (Photoshop/Lightroom, games, and Equalizer APO).
At work I still need to use Windows simply because the toolchains I use are often exclusive to windows (Visual Studio and Atmel Studio in particular).