>Me considering installing Linux for the 4th time in the past 3 months even though I went back to windows within 2 weeks after every time.
How do I cope?
>Me considering installing Linux for the 4th time in the past 3 months even though I went back to windows within 2 weeks after every time.
Go back to Windows, obviously.
But that doesn't silence the voices. Maybe I will finally take the dual boot pill.
Also feels like I can't install any linux other than Arch ever since I tried it, so maybe that's the issue. I've been trying to use debian again and it just feels kinda shit comparatively.
You don't need to dual boot. Windows has WSL2, and if you'd really like a VM, use Hyper-V
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-install-linux-ubuntu-on-hyper-v-in-windows
That should allow you to distro hop comfortably.
Obviously you don't need a computer. If you hobby is to install Linux make a VM and install what you can find in Internet.
You could also try a dedicated Linux box. Using only one computer is for normal people.
I can't. I have thought about it but I'm the kind of autist who needs to have one machine for everything. I have 3 computers and use 1. I can't really explain it, but I like the feeling of having everything in one place. Besides, it takes up space.
Just use windows, nothing wrong with that
Windows is good, and if you want Linux you can have it in WSL2 while also having a solid desktop experience.
Disregard the sour grapes Linux mob. They are still living in 1998.
Why do you keep going back to Windows?
Mixture of
-Small issues that take longer than they should to fix, the userspace sucks in general because of X11
-Piss poor nvidia drivers that lead to issues that are really hard to fix sometimes
-Really bad developer space because all the documentation is centuries old,
-Package management at the OS level is fundamentally a shit system and never served me well. I get the appeal, but a good 60% of my issues with Linux are related to package management and the fact software doesn't ship with its dependencies.
-And video games.
The reasons why I want to use Linux are a mixture of
-I hate being reliant on MSVC for any real work. In general I hate the dev tooling
-Powershell is passable, but bash is just more comfy and integrates better with other programs
-Ricing and window management
-Partition management is not a clusterfuck
-Feels lighter, and more transparent. No hidden "system files" all over the place
-Service management feels better with SystemD(ick)
-Automation and customization
Probably a few more I don't recall.
Bash is trash. PowerShell blows any Linux shell out of the water.
Powershell is good, but it's really slow compared to bash, and I simply do not need that level of functionality for simple shell scripting. I know plenty of languages I can use to do more complex shit with. And like I said, it is also not fully integrated within windows, which makes the current system a bit of a mess, since the default shell is still cmd or whatever it is called.
But you aren't wrong. I use that thing daily and it was a 1000x improvement over what we had before.
I have had a job for 3 years and it still keeps happening.
Your comment summarizes well the dilemma, and I was also like this. Commiting to either Windows or Linux means that you have to sacrifice something, there's no other way around it. Best case scenario (dual booting), you're still sacrificing the comfort of having everything you need in one OS, without the need to reboot because "the other system is better" at this or that.
I've been jumping back and forth between the two since 2018, more or less, but Windows 11 made the full jump really easy for me, even more so with the rumours of W12 baking even more AI slop into the system. In the current day Windows 10 is still miles ahead of Linux from a casual desktop user's perspective, but Linux having improved so much in the last 5 years gives me hope that it won't stay like that for much longer.
In regards to some of the weak points of Linux that you brought up:
>Piss poor nvidia drivers that lead to issues that are really hard to fix sometimes
Seems like they're getting better, at least, but it will probably always have some sort of issue until they decide to support the system properly, no other way around it.
>Package management at the OS level is fundamentally a shit system
With the big players pushing towards immutable distros for the OS + sandboxed packages on top, things are changing really fast. Just flatpak alone improved how easy it is to get certain software so much it's unreal.
>Video games
I don't think that Linux will ever be the best place to gayme, unfortunately. It's still walking forward, at the very least, and I'd even say that today the systems are almost tolerable in this regard, but by going full Linux you're still leaving a lot behind here.
I got a job and this doesn't happen anymore
Does WSL2 integrate with the host Windows filesystem?
The local drives are available in /mnt in the WSL instance
it does since one.
Sounds like you don't really know WHY you would want to use Linux and are just doing it because you got hype looking at desktop threads on LULZ.
If you just want to use linux for kicks you can get a free VM from Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, etc.
If you want to install it, OK I guess, what's the problem?
I don't get it. If you always retvrn to Windows since it obviously offers something better for your use case, why bother with Linux? Are you a NPC that cannot think for himself and needs to do things that LULZ shills? I don't get it, for example here are some reasons why I will never use linux as it doesn't fit my use case like Windows does:
>Text rendering looks worse.
>Vidya library is not playable.
>File explorers & GUI are inferior to Windows.
>Ecosystem integration with Google/Microsoft is inferior.
>I prefer the visuals of W11 over anything linux has to offer.
>Windows gives me more freedom as a user to use a larger library of programs.
Simple as.
Considering you don't even seem to realize you can customize the font rendering or install themes, sticking with Windows seems like the best bet for you.
No font change can fix the rendering on linux, you don't have the access to proprietary changes windows makes to make the rendering work on normal DPI screens.
I have detailed why I want to switch here
I forgot a massive reason though: fuck .net.
How is it even a matter of question then? If you believe that your use cases are not covered by windows, while they are covered by linux, then you use linux? Why do you keep coming back? Being indecisive is unattractive.
Same. I prefer to use to the command line on linux but windows just feels more "snappy".
Just use whatever is best for you and you're more comfortable with, homosexual.
Linux desktop is still garbage and will still be in the near future or even forever, so I don't really blame you.
Just keep an old laptop with CLI, or a VM, or get WSL working if you need Linux for whatever.
Install GitBash on Windows, so you have bash commands in windows with grep, awk, vim and shit. And voila 90% of useful linux functionality on windows.