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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by sli on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:30PM (#30951101)
I guess I got fairly lucky when I was using Linux as a daily driver. The only thing that I would need to fix after a major update was my Nvidia drivers, and I ended up writing a Bash script to do it for me since 99% of the time it was just installing the latest version.
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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by ChasingEchoes on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:31PM (#30951577)
Nvidia drivers turned me away from Linux completely.

I dont remember exactly but i think it was Fedora 25 or 26 (or around there) where they removed some symbols because some fucking moron thought "they arent used by anything" so they pushed them to torvalds linux repo. And the changed got accepted.

You know what used them? Nvidia drivers.

So after a couple of hours fixing that, which at one point started involving rebuilding the kernel and other things that a normal user shouldnt have to EVER do, i just said fuck it, and installed Windows. That laptop is still running decently as a browser/media player at my folks

Now im just using a Mac as a day to day pc, and a windows laptop for gaming.

Even if i deal with Linux at work on servers, and with containers and stuff, i'll never go back to linux.

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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by gerdesj on Thursday April 07, 2022 @08:29PM (#30951979)
How do you keep your machine up to date across the board? I bet your PDF reader/writer is way out of date.

Windows does not have a proper central packager mechanism so if you let it, your software will get really ... floppy.

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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by edgyquant on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:22AM (#30953590)
They said they used Mac as their daily driver. Anyway pdf viewer is usually built into the web browser now days is it not?
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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by stjohnswarts on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:35AM (#30953650)
Yet there are millions of us chugging along just fine every day with linux.
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