im not even being hyperbolic, i genuinely believe this. its specifically the kind of thing i LOVE when messing
around in software, which is maluabiltiy. i love nothing more than being able to take something that could *feasably*
do something specific but just. doesn't. so you set out on a quest to figure out how to make it do said thing,
because we live in the moden day, and if it exists, SOMEONE cares enough to bend it to their will.
my entire ethos truly just entirely relies on the notion that there is no such thing as a new idea. the idea
that someone will have come along, asked my question, and made the answer before. and then after that guy someone else
came in with the same question and was pointed to guy one's solution and so on and so forth. this has served me extremely
well in my switch from windows 11 to linux in some very strange ways.
one of the biggest i'd say the experience has changed has been performance. even on non-linux native apps and games like
battle.net or most every game ever, to include one ive had personal issues with compatability in the past, Diablo IV.
this just runs them all like they're nothing, with better graphics and responsiveness than on windows, i truly wonder
what kind of monster i could be on some games that still won't run on linux *COUGH* fortnite *COUGH*
another thing that sorta surprised me was how switching between linux and windows isn't a terribly large hastle. i
have heard horror stories of people switching back and fourth and back and fourth and opening and closing applications
and breaking out the boot CD and i just. haven't had those issues. maybe im built different or maybe i am just stubborn
but i don't find switching to be that big of an ask, honestly the bigger ask is just convincing me to *want* to go
back to my windows install. mint so far has just run fabulously, never giving me more than i ask for, but windows
refuses to accept this concept, so i get a billion apps that i just can't turn off on startup.
maybe im just the right type of person to enjoy probelm solving in a day to day case like what comes with something like
this (i am currently working on FL Studio, we'll see how THAT pans out) but regardless im never going to shut up about how
much i love this operating system. its user friendly in a way i never see anything anymore, which is that it is friendly
*to the user*. you tell it to do something and it does it, it doesn't ask questions, it doesn't try to protect you from
yourself, it just does what you tell it to do. if you want it to do something else, tell it what to do, otherwise tell it
to do nothing. it honestly doesn't matter because from my experience it will not do anything you don't want it to do,
and in the modern age of computers and software in general thats something i think anyone would be happy to have.
my experience isn't gonna be universal, and im far from the average user. i have an above average understanding of how
a computer works and how to use it effectively, i am at the farther end of the bell curve when it comes to computers.
despite this however, it's been SHOCKINGLY easy to use once it was set up. once all the win2grub and installation and
boot nonsense was figured out it was all 100% usable, plesant even. if i wasn't trying to port over a 2 tb game
library from steam that was stored in windows file systems and as such was useless for a day and a half and just
installed them on my linux partition like a normal person i would have been fine. it would have worked and run flawlessly
without any heavy lifting. ive honestly been FLOORED by just how easy it is to do literally anything.
a good example is shortcuts. i missed my screenshot shortcut so i just went into the settings and used the simple
gui to, in just a moment, set up a shortcut that opened the screenshot tool. would you have to figure out how to launch
that program from the terminal? sure. but most of the time if you just wanna launch something it's just the name of
the program. while writing this EXACT paragraph i made a shortcut that opens spotify if i hit super (windows key) + media play.
all i had to do was name the shortcut, and then tell it i wanted to type "spotify" in the terminal and it just runs.
i truly hope this never loses its luster because if it does i think ill start doing heroin or something if i wanna feel
this kind of high again.
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