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I am really curious about the reasoning behind this, as in my opinion Linux as a desktop OS has improved tremendously over the years.
It's not a single reason, but a bunch of annoyances that accumulate. Off the top of my head, font rendering was quirky and horrible, I had to download very specific versions of ffmpeg to be able to play videos in browsers. The last straw was mod-probing the kernel to fix wi-fi issues. I just said to myself "why tf am I doing this?" and promptly deleted the OS (it was arch btw
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how is dual booting these days?
I actually never had problems with this. At one point, I had windows 10, OpenSuse, nomad BSD and OpenIndiana on the same PC. (OpenIndiana was on a different disk though).
Good heavens. You mean with Windows PE, right? I still have nightmares about it
As stated above, I know it's possible, but when I discovered it, I was already tired from distro hoping and OS installations, so I never tried it. I've put windows LTSC 4 years ago, and it still works beautifully.
It's not a single reason, but a bunch of annoyances that accumulate. Off the top of my head, font rendering was quirky and horrible, I had to download very specific versions of ffmpeg to be able to play videos in browsers. The last straw was mod-probing the kernel to fix wi-fi issues. I just said to myself "why tf am I doing this?" and promptly deleted the OS (it was arch btw
).how is dual booting these days?
I actually never had problems with this. At one point, I had windows 10, OpenSuse, nomad BSD and OpenIndiana on the same PC. (OpenIndiana was on a different disk though).
Good heavens. You mean with Windows PE, right? I still have nightmares about it
As stated above, I know it's possible, but when I discovered it, I was already tired from distro hoping and OS installations, so I never tried it. I've put windows LTSC 4 years ago, and it still works beautifully.
