Before installing Linux, I had originally planned to dual-boot on my main PC, but somehow a gaming rig from 5 years ago isn't good enough to run windows 11, which is ridiculous.
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I made the switch to Linux about ten years ago ... mainly because I didn't want to upgrade to the latest Windows 7/8 and I just didn't have the need to use any Windows software ... all I do is write documents, store photos, some light video editing and go online - why do I need any other OS? The only problem I had at the start was video editing ... it just meant I didn't do any. Now there are several options to get that done too.
The fun part was that my old hardware suddenly ran twice as fast with the latest Ubuntu at the time ... and I haven't look back since.
Linux gang rise up!!!
I switch to Linux in college (20ish years ago) and have been exclusively using it since. Windows XP was my last windows machine. I've never regretted it.
If it wasn't for work/school and Microsoft fucking around with document standards I'd happily never see a windows machine again. My last true windows machine was 7 for gaming and correcting document formatting in college.
I went 15 years without needing a windows machine and now I'm taking online courses where a full windows install is required for some test taking, so I have tiny10 on a dirty gross separate drive, dual booted, fuck off with windows 11. I have a VM with it as well for fixing formatting in docs and spreadsheets I make in libreoffice, because Microsoft STILL has to just fuck with open standards.
I'll be damned if I have to use it more than I have to.
My wife is in grad school (again) and has survived on a cheap Chromebook so far, but it entirely depends on the university (and maybe the class/degree).
I'm doing a computer information systems degree, but it's through the business school. So my first class is "how to use Microsoft Office". The assignments are basically "do these things to make look exactly like this" so I have to pull out the VM to look to see if the formatting stuck (it usually doesn't on the little obscure things).
Plus there's a locked down browser for testing that ONLY works on a full install of windows (not even VM) but I have yet to be required to use that, so Windows is staying off until they time. I'm super tempted to try to put windows on a USB so I can throw it across the room in a biohazard bag when not in use.
Video editing is still a hurdle for me, sometimes I do some shitposts but want to add sparkles and some effects. There's Davinci and it's fucking great but I can't afford the paywalled version (even less if I'm gonna use something once or twice), it doesn't have things like copilot for quick default effects. Also it doesn't renderize things that are outside the usual/common video sizes.
Kdenlive works for some basic video editing, but it feels too convoluted just for some basic editing.
I end up booting Windows and going to after effects anyway.
I thought that for a while myself .... then I started editing things with simple cuts and very few effects. They did build an entire movie industry for most of the 20th century on editing equipment that was no more complex than simple cutting and splicing.
If you want a more simple video editing package you could give OpenShot a try.
My first "true gaming PC" has been turned into a NAS and small docker host. Its about to turn 15, and I have spare hardware to upgrade it, but I like to see how much I can churn out of it.
I did the same for a while using TrueNAS ... I cobbled together every single spare HDD I had at the time onto my first true desktop PC (450Mhz CPU with a gig of RAM, in a giant box full of HDD that felt like a small heater in my office).. I think it was six or seven drives that added up to about 2TB and I felt like I had become Hackerman .... I even set it up with Transmission to download a bunch of Linux distros I wanted to try as well as a ton on movies and TV shows I couldn't get at the time. Basically the reason why I got back into watching all the Star Trek series after downloading all of TNG, VOY and DS9