I never thought I’d love Linux so much

I was always a windows person. It was simple, seemed safe, and I grew up on it, so it was just what I thought I’d always use.

Recently I’ve been really stuck on not upgrading to windows 11 (it sucks imo) and just stuck on windows 10, watching my computer slowly eat itself away to problems I didn’t even think were possible. Then once the steam deck came out, I knew I had to get it.

Portable computer with steam games I already play? Sign me up bro.. but after a few months of just gaming, and a little bit of messing around with desktop mode, I decided to really get into it and see what all the Linux fuss was about. I’ve heard a lot of people really prefer it over windows, and I wasn’t sure why, but man once I got into it I couldn’t stop.

I know it’s only a steam deck so the specs are not anything too crazy, but it feels so much better than my upgraded pc. Windows bogs it down so much a weaker pc feels better. And I mean, SO much better. It feels like when I first started getting into computers as a kid, everything was so fast and new to me.

It wasn’t too different from windows, besides being heavily unbloated, giving me a lot more control over what I do, and the discover software center on my gosh. I don’t know why everything isn’t based on Linux at this point, it’s SO much better with the app quality. (Well, I do know why but everyone should switch to Linux!) And the community seems so much more organized and passionate about this OS, it makes me feel cozy almost. I don’t think I can ever go back to windows again.

TL;DR, windows slow, little control, makes me sad. Linux fast with more control, makes me happy.

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