• arthurpizza@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Linux Is Only Free if You Don’t Value Your Time

    This one is my favorite.

    My co-workers SSD failed, and he was out most of the day. My SSD failed, and I was back up and running in about 10 minutes.

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      After several years of using Linux for work and school, I made the leap to daily driving linux on my personal computer. I stuck with it for two years. Hundreds of hours I sunk into an endless stream of inane troubleshooting. Linux preys on my desire to fix stuff and my insane belief that just one more change, suggested by just one more obscure forum post will fix the issue.

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        Yeah, but you can also run as a windows user and be happy. I have my moments of “from scratch” guy, but sometimes I just throw all away and reinstall (or install another) my distro when I feel the issue is too obscure and should not be occurring. A lot of ppl judge me but I’m using only Linux for the past 3 years and I’m happy as fuck with it. Even liking problem solving sometimes I just want to open a game and run, and yeah, I can do it in the exactly same lazy way of windows.

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        Most likely through a combination of backups and the fact that all your apps can be redownloaded from the repos with a single terminal command followed by a list of packages. I literally keep a list of installed packages. When I reinstalled my system years ago. I restored all configs from my backups and just installed all the same packages I had last time. Reboot and boom you are up and running in no time flat. Depending on your internet speed.

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          That makes sense, can you please guide me to a term that I can google or perhaps a guide article, if you dont mind, please?

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      If the user sees the following

      Linux Is Only Free if You Don’t Value Your Time

      one must immediately counter with

      Windows Is Only Free if You Don’t Value Your Privacy

      The Windows user will immediately disintegrate if performed optimally