{"id":235855,"date":"2026-04-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/after-three-months-on-linux-i-dont-miss-windows-at-all\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T10:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T14:05:10","slug":"after-three-months-on-linux-i-dont-miss-windows-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/after-three-months-on-linux-i-dont-miss-windows-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"After three months on Linux, I don\u2019t miss Windows at all"},"content":{"rendered":"

After three months on Linux, I don\u2019t miss Windows at all<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-04-26 09:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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In January I finally made good on my threat\/promise to install Linux on my desktop. I wanted to see how far I could get using a Linux PC as my main computer without doing a bunch of research beforehand or troubleshooting afterwards. Since then I have booted into Windows exactly twice: once to scan a multipage document that wasn\u2019t scanning right in Linux, and once to print a photo for my kids\u2019 school on extremely short notice. There\u2019s a reason it\u2019s taken me three months to write the next installment in my Linux diary: nothing has gone horribly wrong.<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t take long for my Linux install to stop feeling new and exciting and start feeling like, well, my computer. It\u2019s not exactly like a less annoying version of Windows, though it is less annoying than Windows, but it\u2019s been a much easier transition than I thought it would be. There are a few extra steps sometimes in finding and installing apps \u2014 usually it\u2019s easier than in Windows, and occasionally it\u2019s harder. And there are a few apps I still haven\u2019t been able to replicate in Linux. I\u2019ve also had a smattering of fun bugs, and a few genuinely frustrating moments, but the overall experience is a lot calmer and more robust than I expected. Even troubleshooting is (mostly) satisfying in a weird way.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, everything that\u2019s gone wrong so far has only gone slightly wrong, like a gaming mouse that only works in games, and most of it has been pretty funny, like a gaming mouse that only works in games. Some of it has to do with specific hardware I\u2019m using, or specific choices I made. (Keeping my nemesis, the HP OfficeJet 8720 printer, for one.) Some of it has to do with the fact that I deliberately chose a relatively new rolling distribution based on Arch Linux rather than a more mainstream distribution with a predictable release cycle, like Ubuntu.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my favorite fix so far. CachyOS comes with Snapper, a built-in imaging service that stores snapshots of the OS before you install…<\/p>\n

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