I have decided to abandon Windows. Again.

The first time I ditched Windows was right after I graduated with my Associates. I was heading into a career in compsci, and everything I needed was more easily accessible via Ubuntu anyway. I spent six years with Ubuntu as my daily driver, only using Windows when I wanted to play Heroes of Might and Magic V or punch in customer orders at McDonald's.¹

I switched to Debian for a while, but I needed my computer to do things that I was not quite ready to do the way Debian needed me to. I started working tech support in a Windows-exclusive ecosystem, and when my laptop died I never bothered to upgrade the surplus computer I replaced it with. My schoolwork required me to use Windows, my job didn't require any Linux skills, and the Year of the Linux Desktop was far away.

I started moving back to using primarily Linux in 2020. I had a few cheap surplus machines (Dell Optiplex 390) which ran Windows like absolute hot garbage.

And we're back, baby! Microsoft nerfed their market share by refusing to allow older systems to upgrade to Windows 11 and sending Windows 10 to the farm upstate. I was already using Debian 12 on my desktop and server, so deciding to skip the upgrade from Win10 to Win11 was easy for my laptop.² Windows emulation is way better than it was when I tried to play Mass Effect on Ubuntu in college.

I'll admit, I'm not 100% switched over. I have a PC that my Jellyfin server³ runs on which came with Windows 11 installed, and it's also the PC that my wife and I play video games on. I'd switch it over in a heartbeat if it were just me, but I'm not willing to risk breaking my wife's gaming computer. My goal is to have tested the games on Linux and worked out the kinks before Windows 11's EOL.

I'm super happy with the switch, and honestly KDE Plasma has a lot to do with it. Maybe I'll show off my setup. It's nothing groundbreaking, but it's so much more fun than Windows.

Signing off,

Jessica

At the time, McDonald's used Windows XP IoT on their POS systems. It didn't feel like Windows, but technically it was. ↩
It's running Debian 13 with KDE Plasma, and it is beautiful. ↩
I know that Jellyfin runs on Linux, and I want to get it containerized and off of Windows. I haven't had the time and motivation to test the Windows-to-Linux migration process and it's not so urgent that I need to risk losing any data. ↩

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I am setting up my domain, RealityFabric.net, and now that I have set up my subdomains for personal use (jellyfin, books, code) I have decided to set up a static website for blogging.

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