One Year of Using Linux
Well, a few months more than a year at this point, but the title is nicer this way. I've been using Linux as my daily driver OS since December 2023, after years of Windows 10, so I thought I'd share how my experience has been. tl;dr: a lot of good but some issues. The Background About a decade ago we had at one point a proper(?) desktop PC that ran Linux Mint, but the experience wasn't amazing - hardware issues mostly, from what I can remember. So, after it was thrown out, me and my sister used our dad's old Mac Mini for a few years. Not amazing but it worked. I got my first own computer in 2018. It was a used HP ProBook business laptop, bough from a Finnish company that specializes in buying perfectly fine but "outdated" business laptops from other companies and reinstalling Windows on them and selling them to consumers. The specs were already low-to-mid-end at the time (4th gen Intel Core i5 with integrated graphics and 8 GB RAM) but it did serve me well f...