I changed my main machine over to Linux in the beginning of April, setting it up on its own NVMe so I could keep my other drive with Windows 10 intact and dual boot when needed.

I’ve been having a blast - ricing hyprland, better workflows, great gaming experiences.

Then yesterday I realized that I hadn’t actually bothered to dual boot once since testing out the Windows entry in my systemd-boot menu when I first set it up.

Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?

I wiped out the Windows drive with no remorse. Damn, that felt good.

Goodbye Windows, you won’t be missed.

    • funkajunk@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      21 hours ago

      I’ve been running Linux exclusively on my laptop for about 5 years.

      I went from Manjaro, to EndeavourOS, then to Arch - using KDE, Xfce, Gnome, and eventually landing on hyprland.

      There was a few games that I played that were exclusive to Windows, so I kept Win10 on my desktop PC and kept tweaking it to match my Linux setup.

      But once I was done with those games and the Win10 EOL approaching, I was reminded of that Omni-Man meme, “Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power”. My system had so many registry edits and applications/integrations just to imitate Linux, why not just go for the real deal?

    • Decq@lemmy.world
      3·
      22 hours ago

      I was impressed too, must people jump to gnome, KDE or xfce first. But straight to a tiling window manager. Good on you! I would never go back to a floating window manager now, wish I had discovered it straight away

        • funkajunk@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          14 hours ago

          Hyprland uses mostly keybinds, though you can bind some actions to your scroll wheel.

          You can definitely use something like waybar to create a custom interface that you can interact with your mouse or even touchscreen.

          The beauty of using something like hyprland, sway, niri, etc. is that it is entirely up to you how your computer works, with every person pretty much getting their own custom desktop environment in the end.

          • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
            1·
            13 hours ago

            I already use super+meta+arrows to move/tile windows around in xfce (modified it a bit from how it behaved in win10), but I was wondering if a tiling manager could elevate the experience.