Why I switched form Linux to Windows to Linux

in Linux • 4 years ago

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Yes you haven't red wrong. I switched from Linux to Windows. I can't complain about it. (almost) everything worked flawless in Windows (except a view BSoDs), but why did I switched back to Linux?

The Story

1st Phase: Ubuntu

I knew Linux before I knew what an OS is. My Father used it since the 90s. So he Installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on my first Laptop almost 6 years ago. It was an old laptop with a dual core and 2 GB of RAM. The Laptop was horrible, so I couldn't do anything with it. I wanted to play games with it. I tried to get them working. Sometimes it worked, but most of the time they didn't start. Most of the games needed a newer version of OpenGL. I blamed Ubuntu for it, but it was my old hardware that doesn't support a newer version of OpenGL. After 5 years I still was a Linux noob.

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2nd Phase: Windows 10

About 1 1/2 years ago I got a new PC with windows pre-installed. It's not the best, but it can run games like Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order or Just Cause 4. This was a huge upgrade from my laptop.
As I said before everything worked flawless but there were a few things that annoyed me too:

  1. The installation process of programs. It is annoying to always look after the right website to download the installer. It's way easier to just enter a command and it automatically downloads all dependencies.
  2. The customization of Windows is everything, but not good. I used Unity before which is not that good in Customization too, but it was better than the default customization of Windows. Yes I know that you can use tools like "ultraUXthemepatcher" and later I used that too, but you need to be really carefully where to download it and what to do with it.
  3. It's so incredibly slow and resource intensive. What else should I say about it. It uses 1 GB more ram than on my current system.
  4. Backslashes. Who had the idea to use backslashes instead of normal slashes?

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3rd Phase: Manjaro

About a month ago I installed Manjaro Kde Plasma edition on my machine. I don't realy know, why i switched back to Linux. There were a few things, that liked on Linux and doesn't like on Windows. The terminal for exemple.
Manjaro is faster than Windows (who could've thought about it). Plasma is highly customizable too. Because Manjaro is based on Arch, it is very similar to Arch. For example, you can use the AUR or Pacman.

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Final words

I don't think that I'm a total Linux noob anymore. I still have Windows as dual boot for apps that doesn't work that well on Linux like Microsoft Office or Subnautica, but most of the time I'm using Manjaro.

~ Zekiz

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