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The first few days is where you realize "holy shit, there is another world I've been ignoring and it's so much more fun."
I'm always somewhat confused by this, I haven't tried Linux since 2009 so maybe I just need to try it some more to appreciate what people mean by thks. I'd say it was "fun" in so much as it was nice to have a challenge for a little while but that was more sort of incidental to it facilitating my computer being a useful machine for me. In terms of it being a better operating system that does it's job efficiently without problems, shouldn't it be sort of... Invisible then? Like how can it be fun? I use my computer to do stuff so for me it's sort of like an operating system is only noticeable to the extent that it is bad and if it isn't bad I won't really be aware of it.
So many cool utilities are Linux native first, today.
When I finally switched my work computer to Linux, various little tools I had been using were suddenly trivial to install, instead of maybe an hour each. I had restored my full favorite toolset in less than 30 minutes, and moved on to exploring things that never worked on Windows, for me.
The combined feeling, for me, is like when my father user to hand me $5 to shop at our local 10Β’ candy store. "I can just have as much of this as I want."
"Iβm always somewhat confused by this"
"I havenβt tried Linux since 2009"
ok
It's fun for enthusiasts only, I suppose
Well, invisible is how linux (mostly) is now, as opposed to windows which has become very visible and pushing and annoying by design. It is very refreshing to have an os which works and doesn't constantly annoy you with unwanted things.
You should try it again, I am pretty sure your experience will be very different from 2009, because a lot has happened to linux since then.
I suppose it's a lot easier to have fun when you've got some stability.