A good read on the reality many of us don’t admit out loud. Linux is home, but Windows is still the spare key under the mat for certain things:
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It may be
Blockquote that guy’s
spare key;Blockquote I don’t want or need any such spare key. The only times I’ve ever used or logged into Windows systems in a couple of decades were: 1) some of my last jobs were on system using Windows (but I’ve been retired for 8 years) and 2) on occasion I’ll help a friend with their computer. Neither of these happens often; the most recent thing was a neighbor got a new laptop and gave me their old one. I helped set up the new one and got on the old one and replaced Windows with Linux and I still have that system and it works great.
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Of course I can’t speak for everyone, but it does intrigue me that some people (including the writer of this blog post) seem to run into so many issues. Over the past years, I’ve done quite some Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian installs on different setups, and it’s all been fairly stable (except for the odd Nvidia driver installation that still had to be done).
First, websites started taking ten to twenty seconds to load. Not DNS, not network. Firefox’s DevTools just said waiting for server. I couldn’t diagnose it. Maybe it was Linux, maybe it wasn’t, but I didn’t trust Linux enough to rule it out. That distrust itself is a problem.
Second, the update utility got stuck. Just frozen. Couldn’t open it. I hadn’t tweaked anything, hadn’t installed anything unusual, hadn’t deviated from the vanilla setup. Day seven of a fresh Fedora install and the update tool was bricked.
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Thank you for sharing @hydn!
… I can’t tolerate vanilla installs going bad…
… I need my machine to work…
and
I can’t spend an afternoon tweaking my computer anymore.
Without any success, BTW!
Maybe I’ll try Linux again next year. I probably will. I always do.
That is very similar to my own story. My Windows lock-in ended when I found out Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and it just worked for me as daily desktop driver without a glitch.
BTW, I find it somewhat surprising that the author did not find stable Linux distro that long.
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Agreed. Probably some more context/story there for sure.
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For me, it was Ubuntu 6.06 LTS.
That is so not believable!!! He must be lying in order to spread FUD!
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Ubuntu 6.06 actually. It was two months late 
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Hey, Thom! C’mon! What’s 2 months in this world of lightspeed advancements!
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Back then, those 2 months felt like an eternity 
Anyway it is indeed numbered as 6.06 Dapper Drake , as the only .06 in the series.
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You have to forgive this old-timer! My grey-cells are becoming whiter by the minute! 
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