Officially a Linux user.
If I had known it was this easy to transition, I would have done this years ago.
#fuckwindows #fuckmicrosoft
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It’s become easier
No doubt in my mind. I wish I had come over sooner so I could have done more troubleshooting and be fluent by now.
Which distro?
I'm starting with Mint at the moment. I have another called "Elementary OS" as well that I'm willing to try. Ubuntu sounds compatible with a bunch of things as well.
There are a few Windows programs that I can't part with so I need a viable VM solution for that which is my next challenge.
Also just installing things. I'm used to graphical interfaces so I've got to get used to terminal which is fine by me.
It's all just so exciting and to have my computer running like new is amazing without all of the bloatware on it.
Yes! That's awesome. Been on Linux for years, so much faster.
I use Zorin is but have heard of all of those.
Once your settled in, give i3wm a look. Makes the mouse useless 🤣
You can get into some pretty amazing work flows!
Excel is my big anchor to keeping a windows machine around. You need the windows version to do things like powerpivot.
Main system though has been Slackware for 8 years or so and various Linuxen since 2000 for the most part.
If you can use Linux, you can learn SQL and stop using the dog shit that is excel
I'm quite familiar with SQL. It's got its use cases.
Excel with DAX, webquery, power pivot, and its full suite of functionality is a faster way to accomplish a lot. With the tools at hand to make visuals, and even live dashboards.
Sure, you CAN do it all with python, or heck, C if you're patient enough. Just like you can drive a car without tires if you can fashion a round thing to replace them with out of rocks.
Right tool for the job saves you time though.
Don't worry, it's Excel from the high seas.
I saw that you went with Linux Mint, and that is a freaking fantastic choice.
I've been using Linux since 2011 and I tried a bunch of different distributions. And what do I end up on? Linux Mint.
I installed Mint yesterday myself. Ran Linux as my primary OS from 2001 to 202O. Glad to be back.