I love how linux is this amazing, beautiful, awesome, creative, frustrating, hard, worthwhile, intelligent thing that anyone can get invovled in. It encourages, learning, exploring, community and helps with much more. I love you linux! Thanks for being here during these challenging times.
The ability to customize virtually anything you want.
When I was younger I used to thinker with my Windows installs all the time to get it to look and feel exactly how I wanted, but it would constantly break, it was really frustrating. Seeing other people making their own rices was how I found out about Linux.
That it's source code is open. And that I can do with it whatever I want, it doesn't annoy me with AI and it runs smoothly on my 11 year old computer. π
It returned ownership of my computers to me. I can choose an appropriate distro for each computer I own. I am not only allowed to, but actually encouraged to, tinker with the inner workings of Linux. I choose which software I want to support financially. I am not supporting a morally bankrupt company. The community rocks!
Freedom, it respects me, it let me use my hardware for myself instead of taking most of it for spyware, and it allows me to do whatever I am able to because of my technical skills without bs barriers. And it is objectively superior.
I like the possibility to contribute and be part of the community. From commenting problems faced and getting help to contributing with either ideas or code changes.
freedom, no AI foisted on me, distros that don't start with the assumption that I'm stupid, the Arch Wiki (no matter what distro I use), choice of window managers - or even a usable terminal shell if I wantβ¦
Basically, everything. It's better than either major commercial OS by miles in almost every way.
that I built my complete education, my university exam and the rest of my career at space science from 1986 through 40 ys until today on Linux. When I started studies all elder profs told me it makes no sense. My way proofed them beeing wrong.
First and foremost, Linux runs better on my hardware than Windows did. I like all the selections available for desktops and window managers. Running it at home is a LOT easier now than it was when I first looked at Linux in 2008-2010. With all the different distros available, I can find one that runs on the specific system where I want to install it.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •That one day I am going replace the operating system on the computer I haven't been using with Linux.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •The ability to customize virtually anything you want.
When I was younger I used to thinker with my Windows installs all the time to get it to look and feel exactly how I wanted, but it would constantly break, it was really frustrating. Seeing other people making their own rices was how I found out about Linux.
Ramnarayan Kalyanaraman
in reply to It's FOSS • • •aligns with the values i believe and espouse - open and free flow of knowledge and ideas, creative commons, somewhat a just process,
Technically competent, supported despite mainstream industry shenanigans
And now so effective and good to use with hardky much headache in file compatibility, or significant hardware incompatibility
And fun, absolutely fun (sometimes headachy) but at the end of the day i am technically better (and hopefully a better person) because i use linux.
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •I can choose an appropriate distro for each computer I own.
I am not only allowed to, but actually encouraged to, tinker with the inner workings of Linux.
I choose which software I want to support financially.
I am not supporting a morally bankrupt company.
The community rocks!
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •One-click updates of both OS and applications together at a time of MY choosing.
No wait for 30 minutes
No separate apps to track available updates
No need for license keys
No need to register or pay*
No need to restart (usually)
*I donate to several projects but I won't get cut off if I can't / don't
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •freedom, no AI foisted on me, distros that don't start with the assumption that I'm stupid, the Arch Wiki (no matter what distro I use), choice of window managers - or even a usable terminal shell if I wantβ¦
Basically, everything. It's better than either major commercial OS by miles in almost every way.
Avoca
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •It's empowering because I choose my computing experience i.e., simple or complex, manual or automated, look & feel, and privacy & security.
And #foss of course π€πΎ
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