I feel really good about how I got home and booted up my computer and it's absolutely running Linux and feels very comfortable.
@ruth is this your first time with linux? also what distro?
@mxbees This is my first time with Mint (cinnamon desktop) which I think is making a difference. Also I've spent the last 18 work months on a Mac and therefore coming home to Linux in the evening is a little less weird than coming home to Windows 10 in the evening? I like not worrying that I haven't turned off some monitoring thing, I like the control I have...
@mxbees Currently it's a dual-boot since there are still 3-4 Windows only things (like fancy quilt design software I bought ages ago) which I need to access from time-to-time. But it's the first time I haven't uninstalled after a few days. Hm, I'd also credit my work making me use Google Docs (yeah I know, not great) for making me less reliant on Word & such as a thing I just think about as a critical part of my OS.
@ruth bc i have a desktop with a lot of memory and a good processor, i have windows 7 as a virtual machine to run the few windows things i need (like overdrive for public library stuff). windows 10 looks like a nightmare to me and apple isn't far behind. then again. now that i have everything just right, using anything else feels crappy to me.
@ruth *nods* for me as well... settling down with linux was all about finding the right desktop environment and making the right tweaks so that everything is just how i want it.