Oh, wow we have had different experiences haha. It was a very steep learning curve at first as I have no background in programming. But it acted like a motivator to learn more.
I love having my operating system be exactly what I want it to be. Doing exactly what I want it to do. And I love that Hyprland depends on Wayland. Id never go back to X compositor again. Its forced me to learn a lot about the future of Unix-like computing.
Like it sounds kinda sad to say this haha but I love when my OS breaks. 99% of the time I already have a very good idea why and will have it fixed in just a fee minutes, that 1% of the time ive learned a lot about figuring out what the issue was and fixing it. My OS almost never breaks now as ive worked out so many of the bugs over time. But initially I won’t lie there was a definite learning curve.
I think part of it is that computing on my personal PC is very hobbyist for me. Like I dont work on it and I dont play competitive online games. That means that I’m free to use it how I want and make it work how I like it to. So Hyprland suits my needs well. I can customize it to my liking, make it pretty, make it functional, and grow my confidence in Linux. I used to hate command line. Now if there is a terminal/CLI application I will take it first every time because my Terminal is so customized to my liking. Save on disk space, compute power, and dealing with clunky menus and inconsistent design.
This is what I mean about Hyprland making me love computing again. It just made me see my computer in a totally different light and has reinvigorated my long dormant passion for it.
Keep In mind that you can still be captured by this feature indirectly, Discord for example certainly doesn’t intend to do anything to hide your messages, they recently went public so in their eyes more tracking the better.
I recently decided to switch from using Atomic Fedora to reg KDE Fedora (cause tinkering and bypassing atomic features got on my nerves), and I almost went through with wiping everything and only having Linux installed. And then I realized I probably wouldn’t be able to do some tests for college cause they use anti-cheating software (lockdown browser) which they probably wouldn’t like if I ran it in a VM or wine…
But man, once I’m out of college, I’m probably wiping Windows for good! Also gonna factory reset that partition so it at least takes way less space on my drive.
(Side note: the other hesitation is that I’m 90% kernel updates nuked Bluetooth for me around March (It worked when I rolled back to January/February releases) and I do have zoom classes sometimes. Like, do I just have to buy a Bluetooth dongle to deal with this?)
Running Linux would block this feature too.
Just reason sayin.
Tbf, anything that isn’t AI Windows blocks the feature. Including regular Windows.
People just need to not fall for the scam edition and they don’t have to deal with this shit.
Switching to Linux made me like computers again. Switching to Hyprland made me love computers again.
Hyprland made me suicidal again but we are all different
Oh, wow we have had different experiences haha. It was a very steep learning curve at first as I have no background in programming. But it acted like a motivator to learn more.
I love having my operating system be exactly what I want it to be. Doing exactly what I want it to do. And I love that Hyprland depends on Wayland. Id never go back to X compositor again. Its forced me to learn a lot about the future of Unix-like computing.
Like it sounds kinda sad to say this haha but I love when my OS breaks. 99% of the time I already have a very good idea why and will have it fixed in just a fee minutes, that 1% of the time ive learned a lot about figuring out what the issue was and fixing it. My OS almost never breaks now as ive worked out so many of the bugs over time. But initially I won’t lie there was a definite learning curve.
I think part of it is that computing on my personal PC is very hobbyist for me. Like I dont work on it and I dont play competitive online games. That means that I’m free to use it how I want and make it work how I like it to. So Hyprland suits my needs well. I can customize it to my liking, make it pretty, make it functional, and grow my confidence in Linux. I used to hate command line. Now if there is a terminal/CLI application I will take it first every time because my Terminal is so customized to my liking. Save on disk space, compute power, and dealing with clunky menus and inconsistent design.
This is what I mean about Hyprland making me love computing again. It just made me see my computer in a totally different light and has reinvigorated my long dormant passion for it.
Switching to TempleOS made me hear the voices again.
Switching to Hannah Montana Linux made me hear The Best of Both Worlds again.
I want to use Corey in the House Linux
They got pills for that. Just sayin’
Same story here! Im in love with computing all over again because of it. Too bad many are tricked into thinking Microsoft ia the only option.
Keep In mind that you can still be captured by this feature indirectly,
Discord for example certainly doesn’t intend to do anything to hide your messages, they recently went public so in their eyes more tracking the better.I’m thankful to have made a feature request to Element/Matrix asking for them to prevent this exact thing.
Discord… Still isn’t public?
They’re certainly talking about it but they haven’t announced a date yet.
Having said that, element and matrix are both more privacy respecting so I do agree with the recommendation in general.
Apologies, I striked the lines out of my previous comment. It simply was an example of how you still can be captured.
There’s one in every thread.
One?
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Thats 96% of lemmy users
Actually, Linux doesn’t block windows, it just isn’t windows.
Just reason saying.
Actually it does! When youre installing, just delete the windows boot partition and your done!
I recently decided to switch from using Atomic Fedora to reg KDE Fedora (cause tinkering and bypassing atomic features got on my nerves), and I almost went through with wiping everything and only having Linux installed. And then I realized I probably wouldn’t be able to do some tests for college cause they use anti-cheating software (lockdown browser) which they probably wouldn’t like if I ran it in a VM or wine…
But man, once I’m out of college, I’m probably wiping Windows for good! Also gonna factory reset that partition so it at least takes way less space on my drive.
(Side note: the other hesitation is that I’m 90% kernel updates nuked Bluetooth for me around March (It worked when I rolled back to January/February releases) and I do have zoom classes sometimes. Like, do I just have to buy a Bluetooth dongle to deal with this?)
Heck, wipe the entire disk!
(based on a real life experience)
(windows just kept standing no matter what partition i deleted so i wiped the disk clean)
Delete only the boot partition? Doug kick him off the tour!
I only use Linux and I want Windows to just stay out of my way or it’ll pay, listen to what I say.
You gotta have your old files! But man does NTFS suck ass