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I'm curious to hear from others who have made the switch recently from other OSes to Linux.
I know there are long-time Linux users here, and I appreciate their input, but I'm particularly interested in how new Linux users like myself have coped with being life-long Windows users who have recently made the decision to try Linux.
My story is that I had a spare laptop I wasn't using for anything important because it is too old to run efficiently, so about a week ago I decided to check to see if it would run Linux. I found the installation process to be flawless, and am now happily running Pop-OS with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop.
I was surprised at how comfortable I feel in the Linux environment. I feel right at home in the command-line terminal, as it reminds me so much of my MS-DOS days. It's no accident that as computing evolved over the years to remove the user from the machine experience I became increasingly disenchanted with the latest operating systems. It got to the point that when my Mom "upgraded" to Windows 10 on her laptop I had to tell her that I could no longer be her tech support guy.
My most exciting discovery with Linux on my laptop was when I ran the Firefox that came with the distro. It come up in a generic profile, of course, but as soon as I copied my desktop Firefox profile over to the laptop Firefox came up with everything intact -- right down to my addons, toolbars, bookmarks, history. EVERYTHING! It is identical to my desktop Firefox and runs flawlessly.
I'm pondering the idea now of doing the same thing on my desktop, but I get nervous about giving up 36 years worth of PC/Windows-based knowledge with all my work and personal-related software and utilities and going cold turkey with a whole new environment.
So, I'm curious how others who might have made the switch recently have managed. I can give more details about what I mostly use my desktop for if anyone is interested.
I know there are long-time Linux users here, and I appreciate their input, but I'm particularly interested in how new Linux users like myself have coped with being life-long Windows users who have recently made the decision to try Linux.
My story is that I had a spare laptop I wasn't using for anything important because it is too old to run efficiently, so about a week ago I decided to check to see if it would run Linux. I found the installation process to be flawless, and am now happily running Pop-OS with the KDE Plasma 5 desktop.
I was surprised at how comfortable I feel in the Linux environment. I feel right at home in the command-line terminal, as it reminds me so much of my MS-DOS days. It's no accident that as computing evolved over the years to remove the user from the machine experience I became increasingly disenchanted with the latest operating systems. It got to the point that when my Mom "upgraded" to Windows 10 on her laptop I had to tell her that I could no longer be her tech support guy.
My most exciting discovery with Linux on my laptop was when I ran the Firefox that came with the distro. It come up in a generic profile, of course, but as soon as I copied my desktop Firefox profile over to the laptop Firefox came up with everything intact -- right down to my addons, toolbars, bookmarks, history. EVERYTHING! It is identical to my desktop Firefox and runs flawlessly.
I'm pondering the idea now of doing the same thing on my desktop, but I get nervous about giving up 36 years worth of PC/Windows-based knowledge with all my work and personal-related software and utilities and going cold turkey with a whole new environment.
So, I'm curious how others who might have made the switch recently have managed. I can give more details about what I mostly use my desktop for if anyone is interested.