The fact that you get a full OS for free, customizable and no crappy forced in features that you don’t want is amazing.

I can stress enough that my experience with Linux has been resoundingly positive, it’s almost like that finnish bill gates guy made a golden goose of an OS.

Ever since I upgraded my WiFi to pcie and moved to Fedora, it has been nothing but smooth sailing.

• AMD GPU just works, no fussing about, get straight to fragging on Xonotic and Counter Strike

•Customize Fedora to my liking, made it more like windows with the extensions provided

• What’s this? A software app store? Swell! I no longer need to download stuff off from dodgy sites or numbingly installing everything manually!

• The mascot of Linux? 10/10 and penguins are one of my 2nd favourite animals

How was your experience with this Unix-like wonder? In a home user manner and/or a business use manner?

Let me know!

  • HarriPotero@lemmy.world
    41·
    7 months ago

    I guess it all depends on perspective.

    I love that it’s free compared to those $10-20k licenses for similar systems.

    I love that there are good package managers.

    I love that it’s open source.

    I hate that it’s GPLv2.

    I hate how bloated the kernel is. I’d like it to fit into main memory.

    I hate how it’s not POSIX-certified.

    • Dave.
      7·
      7 months ago

      I hate how bloated the kernel is. I’d like it to fit into main memory.

      Take a copy of lspci, lsusb. Use them to build a kernel from source with only the bits you need and then make the bits you might need modules. Include your filesystem driver into the kernel and you can skip the usual initramfs stage and jump straight to your root filesystem.

      Might take a few tries, but at least it doesn’t take 18 hours to compile the kernel anymore…

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      What’s wrong with GPLv2? I feel like the fsf community says it is weak and the commercial community complains they can’t seal it.

    • lord_admiral@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      I would like to see Linux finally move to the FreeBSD architecture model. Or a sane Linux with a FreeBSD kernel.