I'm one the verge. I switched all my secondary devices to Linux and all of a sudden, I hardly heard fans running any more.

I literally had enough with Russian roulette like Windows Update, all kinds of spyware for a long time but it's really really hard to find substitution for some of the stuffs I use also the drives were not that good on Linux.

Switched over ~10 years ago. Was rough then -- pretty dang easy now.

Fedora 36 is pretty smooth. Only issue was a nvidia driver update a couple of years ago, but was easy enough to unwind. Otherwise no issues.

It's like that Neil Stephenson passage where he compares BeOS to the Batmobile, MacOS to a Lexus, Windows to a station wagon, and Linux to a tank, with the problem being that people are scared to learn how to drive a tank -- even though it's free.

I switched from ubuntu to debian and from debian to fedora (37).

Fedora is just great.

And being a red hat certified sysadmin, I'm liking it even more.

I am old enough to have had years before Windows even existed. So I never switched to Windows, dodged a bullet there :)

Lol. I used Windows coz I wanted a GUI but BSDs or Linux was not good enough then.

My primary dislike is that gnome continually focuses on touch-centric UI over desktop UI and occasionally makes changes just for the hell of it which bother me and break extensions and themes. The recent changes to buttons just feel like they're chasing Android.

Despite all of that, when combined with a few extensions and customizations it remains my favorite despite experience, despite the vanilla experience being sub par. But not when it's broken obviously.

It's a love hate relationship.

I don't know why, I never liked Gnome. I used to use KDE, now I'm mostly using LXDE.

There seems to be issues with Wayland graphics driver in Fedora 37, after switching to X the issue went away.

You were tough. I tried to switch a couple of times during the past decade or so, but had to give up due to various reason. This time I guess I might have to crack through as M$ really really pissed me off.

Buddy, Fedora 35 killed TimeShift accidentally and countless people had non-functioning backups. That's a doozy you are overlooking completely.

Indeed.

Years ago maintaining a linux installation was a part time job.

Did you update the kernel? Have fun recompiling the nvidia driver.

Usb modem? Roll 19 or higher for some random package off sourceforge to support your device and roll a 20 for some kind soul to have written an howto.

Bluetooth audio? Who knows!

Printing? Sure, let’s dive into lpd’s legacy on this earth.

Attaching an external display? You’ll love reading xrandr’s manoage EVERY TIME.

A package outside the official repository? Well if you’re okay trading your version upgrade in the future, why not…

Nowadays most things work.

Now if only gnome could stop the war against its own users…

KDE plasma is really what we should be steering people towards, its excellent

    > Bluetooth audio? Who knows!

    > Attaching an external display? You’ll love reading xrandr’s manoage EVERY TIME.

It's funny you mention this, I've had both of these problems since 2020 and in fact haven't found a way to resolve them to this day. I have to boot into Windows just to connect to an HDMI display or use Bluetooth headphones.

    > Did you update the kernel? Have fun recompiling the nvidia driver.

My kernel updated from 5.15 to 5.18 and almost all my programs that use Nvidia hardware acceleration stopped working. I had to learn how to downgrade my kernel just to be able to hardware encode videos again.

    > A package outside the official repository?

Software distribution on Linux is still a massive dumpster fire, you'd think Flatpaks/AppImages would solve that but they introduce their own problems. I often just bite the bullet and compile everything from source since there's literally no other option.