• Crank_it@lemmy.world
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    I switched a few years ago. I’ve been using windows for over 30 years. They changed a bunch of random shit I had used in the past. I figured I’d give it a shot.

    I never went back. I’m not a coder. I don’t even like tech very much. I’ve been really happy with Ubuntu for years.

    I wanted something that just worked. It has.

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      I installed Pop!_OS on a Thinkpad and made it my main work computer. It is the most boring computing experience ever. Nothing ever breaks. It just works.

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        It’s been my daily driver for years now. The two computers os have literally never failed, no software issues other than some bugs I myself introduced.

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      The Steam Deck was the reason I changed. Used the Deck as my only PC for a couple of months and liked the experience so I changed.

      I’ve had OpenSUSE on my PC for over a year now and really like it… But I’ll be honest, the move and troubleshooting problems for setup was a pain in the ass. But it’s stable and steady since I’ve gotten over setup pains.

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        I hear you. I spent a while switching to OpenSUSE too because it seemed so easy, I’ve installed OSs plenty!

        But I like to partition and stuff, and have a lot of drives from over the years. Oh, what filesystem? Well geeze that might as well be an epic RPG’s “choose a name” screen!

        Now it’s easy: Their perfectly fine default of BTRFS because snapshots and I might try dedup, thank you very much. Lol but I still feel like I had to wade through way too much to reach that conclusion.

        Once it’s installed and configured though? Man, everything I throw at it is just fine. Love my Tumbleweed. Haven’t looked back in like 4 years. :)

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            Tumbleweed.💖

            Although for my relatives I’ll rather recommend Slowroll once it’s our of beta (or even Leap for older family members). Just that little bit more stable. 🙂 Still, OpenSuse does a fantastic job. I’d love to see them available directly from device vendors like Tuxedo, System76 or hell, even Framework.