▲ 233 ▼ what caused you to get into Linux? (lemm.ee) submitted 2 years ago by Altomes@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml 288 comments fedilink hide all child comments What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
[–] Cotillion189@lemmy.world 127 points 2 years ago (6 children) Windows. permalink fedilink source hideshow 12 child comments replies: [–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child) In my case, specifically Windows 95. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FirstWizardZorander@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago 98 for me. One day, it borked the file system one last time. Never looked back. Have to use Win 10 at work, though, and I hate how cumbersome and slow it is permalink fedilink source parent [–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 9 points 2 years ago In my case, specifically tiling windows. I use i3, btw. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago Microsoft has been trying to make me hate computers since the 90s lol permalink fedilink source parent [–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Yeah. On the same hardware, Linux (Knoppix back then) worked much better than Windows (the 98/XP era). permalink fedilink source parent [–] Opafi@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago Same. More specifically windows 8. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago I used a bootable Ubuntu usb to save the contents of my windows hard drive after it failed. I successfully brought the files onto an external drive and installed Linux after. It was so fun. It still is. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago* (1 child) In my case, specifically Windows 95. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FirstWizardZorander@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago 98 for me. One day, it borked the file system one last time. Never looked back. Have to use Win 10 at work, though, and I hate how cumbersome and slow it is permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FirstWizardZorander@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago 98 for me. One day, it borked the file system one last time. Never looked back. Have to use Win 10 at work, though, and I hate how cumbersome and slow it is permalink fedilink source parent
[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 9 points 2 years ago In my case, specifically tiling windows. I use i3, btw. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago Microsoft has been trying to make me hate computers since the 90s lol permalink fedilink source parent
[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) Yeah. On the same hardware, Linux (Knoppix back then) worked much better than Windows (the 98/XP era). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Opafi@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago Same. More specifically windows 8. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago I used a bootable Ubuntu usb to save the contents of my windows hard drive after it failed. I successfully brought the files onto an external drive and installed Linux after. It was so fun. It still is. permalink fedilink source parent