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Neil Wolfkid

EVERYTHING can be done with some commands and EVERYTHING can be customized to the SOURCE! I just cant stand having to install things manually anymore or have to deal with a laggy and heavy interface because i can literally just change MY WHOLE DESKTOP INTERFACE with some commands! I dont like something? I just change it!

MacOS is also veeery damn nice, but i still cant stop using Linux all the time, it's just amazing

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Alex Georgiev

I agree with you! It's just once you try Linux you get to understand that you really enjoy being able to customize your environment, especially via the command line. I agree that macOS is also really good, once you get used to the different keyboard layout, scrolling and shortcut commands of course.

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Neil Wolfkid

Linux is that one kind of thing that looks horribly intimidating at the first time, but once you learn it, it can be extremely simple to use.

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Alex Georgiev

I agree with you. I remember my first experience with it was using Linux Mint and I spent several minutes doing some random stuff at work, before realising it was not Windows :D

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Neil Wolfkid

My first time was with lubuntu, it looked weird and did weird things but it was EXCESSIVELY FAST, i started reading and reading more about it and turned out i became a fan of it, started exploring the linux world and tried a thousand distros and desktops and when i tried windows 10 back, my disgust was inmeassurable, everything was so broken and weird and unstable and it suddenly became a pain to use, now i only use Void Linux (Musl edition) with open source software exclusively and not because i am a FOSS purist but because it's just better for my needs!

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Alex Georgiev

It does feel weird when you get to use it for the first time, but with time you understand why so many people use it and why so many companies rely on it. I've tried a lot of distros, for example, a few weeks ago I bought a new laptop for my niece and it came with pre-installed OpenSuse and I feel bad I needed to replace it with Windows but I spent some time browsing around before going forward.