• 1984@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    For me it’s been year of the Linux desktop since maybe 2010 or something… Don’t remember exactly when I switched all computers to Linux. But something like that.

    I think it was Ubuntu 8 or something when I first started using Linux everywhere at home. I remember the name Hardy Heron… And that was released in 2010.

    I’ve had Linux on my work laptop for at least the last 5 years. It’s very reliable these days.

    And I have been gaming on it full time for the last 2 years.

    It’s all very much progress. Very much fun.

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      1 year ago

      Ubuntu version numbers are very easy to track against the years, because they are the years. Ubuntu 8.X was released in 2008. If it was 2010 it would have been Ubuntu 10.X.

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        1 year ago

        Ok thanks. Yeah memory is a bit fuzzy from that time and I probably switched a bit back and forth between other Linux also.

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      Same, but ~2007 for me. I switched when Windows crapped out on my rented computer at school and Linux just worked. I’ve been essentially Linux-only since then, with occasional returns to Windows for one-off tasks (e.g. play a certain game with friends, run an app, test something, etc).

      The only time I’ve booted into Windows in the last year was to install Minecraft Bedrock edition so my kid could play with his friend, but his kid flaked and we haven’t been back since.