• BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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    I went from not owning a proper computer for nearly a decade (just my phone and Xbox, literally nothing else) to buying a used Thinkpad off of eBay, upgrading some parts, and installing Linux mint onto it in under a year. Now I’m looking at building a Linux gaming PC. Y’all indoctrinated me

    • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
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      Linux PCs are… for lack of a better word, Swiss army knives for computing.

      Need a media center? We got you.

      Need server software? Bro. Who are you even asking?

      Need a desktop? We got you.

      Need to open that hard drive? The app is in the repository for absolutely free, just works and the hard drive opens.

      Corrupted?

      No prob, fam, here’s a suite of recovery tools. We’ll get those photos of gran-gran back no prob.

      Need to burn that disk? The app is in the repository for absolutely free, just works and you’re burning a disk for the family.

      It just never ends. With Windows I always felt like I had to play “dodge the scam” with literally everything, even shit as mundane as ninite has that sense of “well, are they spying? Is everyone?”