Not if your file explorer is dolphin and your taskbar is plasma shell
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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I use Fedora btw 
M'linux
No data collection?? 
AI: A product so bad they have to force it on you.
Nice of Microsoft to be Linux’s marketing department all free of charge, eh Hexbear?
Man, I love Linux
Switching has been really interesting for me. Before I moved I’d think “Man I don’t want to do all the troubleshooting and learning that is going to come with it”
But what happened is it reminded me that I enjoy learning and troubleshooting. I think the difference is the troubleshooting I have to do in Windows is typically trying to unfuck some bullshit Microsoft is doing that I don’t like. I’m usually mad on principle, and when I do unfuck whatever it is I resent that I had to do it in the first place.
In Linux it’s “I wonder if I can do this? I can! But does that mean? It does!” It has completely reinvigorated my love for computers.
Also, for whatever reason when I thought about switching I only ever thought about the troubleshooting. In my head it was like I would be switching to an OS that only exists to be worked on. I forgot that like once you set it up the first time you’re kinda done and it’s just like any other computer. You can futz and customize endlessly if you want to, or you can just stop.
I’m never going back
Multiple
Installs of
Linux
Fuck you, Microsoft
Installing Linux
many times to one PC
fuck you, Microsoft.
Man,
I
Like
Fedora
Mounts I'd Like to Fstab
Sure do love to make my computer have more useless features and spying apparatuses at the cost of system performance
Microsoft doing some really great advertising for Linux lately
I dunno who said it or in what context but I heard recently "If you cannot decide what your computer does and does not do, you do not own your computer." and I've been thinking about that a lot.
Sounds like something Torvalds would say but I can't remember
Sounds more Stallman than Torvalds to me.
Torvalds isn't ideological in that way, it doesn't seem like something he would say. He's usually on about how open source (the guy embraced the corporate-friendly rebranding) is/was instrumental in the success of the Linux project and that he personally likes working that way, i.e. from home, over email, in his own time.
yeah maybe not i wish i could remember where i heard it
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Im just gonna stay on windows 10 forever
I'm just going to stay on Linux forever