Why I left Windows

[@derwalkerhaus]

Thanks for the vid, and congrats on moving off Windows. Recall was the last straw. Been on Windows since DOS 5.0. Built several Windows gaming PCs. Ran a graphics/web design company, all running Windows... and now I'm officially done. Last week I erased my last Windows partition, and have moved to Linux Mint full-time. I have been completely floored how well it works. I can do graphics, video editing, web design. Literally all my Steam games run just as good, and some better than on Windows. I hope more people make the jump, and have the same luck I did...

[@BrazaG]

I don't do video editing, I'm in the Music Production industry, I also left Windows about a week ago and I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

[@psalmistpro2554]

So what operating system did you go to? Being in the music industry, I would think those professional applications would be essential

[@BrazaG]

@@psalmistpro2554 I went to MacOS. The way the system handles audio is much better designed from the ground up and it outright eliminates the necessity for some extra hardware you would need on Windows. To be fair, most professional tools for music are designed for MacOS first, and adapted for Windows afterwards. My only regret I would say is losing on a lot of Games

[@jeremybowden3134]

I jumped onto Ardour in Linux. Ableton live users who liked Linux jumped into bitwig on Linux.

[@foy59]

Nice video. I modded win7 with rainmeter to get those tiles. God bless you brother!

[@lhrmusic1]

By the way kratos is mimicking you in your shadow.

[@psalmistpro2554]

😂😂😅

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

This is the highest effort video on the internet with only 5 views.

[@psalmistpro2554]

Thank you 🙏

[@darrenmahaffy2582]

Nice rundown. I started life with DOS, and in IT Windows rules still; however, also used Macs from the mid 90s up until about 3 years ago as my daily driver. Bought one of our sons a Chromebook for college but he wanted a Macbook so I took his HP Chromebook and absolutely love it. So simple, not distracting. And it is *fast*. Only issue are some apps that are not native, but instead use the phone version of the app - like WhatsApp, some weather apps, etc.

[@psalmistpro2554]

Wow tech wise you really experienced a lot. I forgot all about DOS, and I agree some apps having native desktop applications would be better, but the phone versions can make a nice substitute.

[@jeremybowden3134]

I just started using davinci resolve in Linux

[@psalmistpro2554]

I hear great things about that program

[@jeremybowden3134]

@@psalmistpro2554 there are a few but I'd say Olive is on par with adobe but Davinci is better than adobe in my opinion

[@OceanusHelios]

Are you using your computer? Or are corporations exploiting your computer's clock cycles, memory, and other things for their own purpose? This has gotten too blurred. They didn't buy me a computer. They do not maintain my computer. They maintain their software and programs (the OS). Now, why should electronics slow down? Old phones and radios never slowed down. Linux never seems to slow down. Oh yeah yeah "upgrades" and other things. An operating system has a couple of jobs: interface between the hardware and make software available to the user. You have a computer so that you can use applications. An operating system should do as little as possible and get out of the way of those applications. The modern operating system is like having a vehicle, but it is filled to the brim with tires in the passenger compartment. There is just enough room for the person driving the vehicle to use it....and the rest of it is devoted to....telemetry and advertising. OH and the other thing Windows does? It pushes the user to buy a new computer...when it feels like the user should be buying a new computer. The investments of consumers in the computer space is not being respected. They want to now switch to everything being subscription based. The way it is going, you will need to subscribe to everything that you should normally use and possess and have the freedom to use as you wish outright. I am an atheist. I do not subscribe to your religion. But this isn't about being a fanboy anymore or about what a person believes. It is about what is and what exists and how things should be and how things are changing. People should have the right to repair. People should have the right to modify. And people should have the freedom to do with their possessions whatever they wish. You won't have that with subsciptions and you won't have that where the business model is to pump all the advertising they can into your life. They are not paying for the electricity. You are. They aren't buying you your equipment. You are. They can not make you use their stuff. I will not be dictated to by a government, a religion, or anybody else's hairbrained ideas on what I should do with my own thought space. That is the point. I've loved MS for a time. I saw it in the beginning when nothing from one computer was compatible with another computer. I was there for the PC clone wars, and MS changed that and made manufacturers and corporations work together. But now they've gone too far. Now they have hegemony and want to dictate how we use our own hardware. So, I switched to Linux. I would rather be underpowered than overpowered by a mob of corpos who think I am the product and not the customer.