Been using Linux as my main OS for 2 months!
With all the news about Windows 11 updates causing a mess in people’s PCs that I’ve been seeing for most of 2025, and even now going into 2026—just search “microsoft updates” on Google and go to the News tab, there’s so many entries that are days or 1-2 weeks old—it’s a relief that I don’t have to worry about all of that because…
Since December 2, 2025, I’ve been opening my PC and booting into my Linux partition every time. I’ve never had the need now to log in back into my Windows partition to do something.
It’s super fast to open my PC now
Man, what have I been missing all this time! I just turn my PC on, and after a minute or so, I can start using it! 🤯 Revolutionary feature. 😆
Back then on Windows, I’d have to press the ON button on my PC, then I walk around for a bit or just use my phone as I wait for everything to load. Sure, I could minimize that boot load time by lessening the number of startup apps, but even then, I’d still be spending time opening the default apps I use, which still takes time.
Now I still have some startup apps set up—it’s just my default browser (Zen), Vesktop, then I open Telegram and it’s done. My default apps are all set up.
I don’t remember how long it took to get everything loaded back when I was still on Windows, but I just know that now with Linux I don’t even have to worry about that. Everything I need gets loaded quickly.
Coding now feels more seamless, it makes more sense
Back in Windows I had to deal with wsl2 and was also technically using Linux within Windows for my coding needs anyway, so now that I’m actually on Linux and I’m just doing things the same way I’d do them on my work Macbook (which is just straightforward, no need to install any other settings or needing to struggle with Windows specific hiccups) it just feels right. Things just run. I don’t have to really think about things too much.
It doesn’t feel as daunting to use Linux anymore
I remember around 10 years ago, when I was playing around with the idea of having Linux installed on my laptop in college then, I knew I wouldn’t be able to do the things I normally could do just fine in Windows before. Mostly this was due to the supposed steep learning curve I thought I needed to go through to deal with Linux quirks, and back then the only Linux distro I knew about was Ubuntu (and Lubuntu 😆).
Windows to me 10 years ago felt a bit like how I feel now with my Linux setup on CachyOS. I can just install whatever I wanted on my PC to try it out, and if I didn’t like it, I knew how to remove it.
I guess I can chalk this up to experience and me gaining more knowledge as I got older, since I was less knowledgeable about how computers worked back in college—since I was still learning about them—versus now that know a bit more than before. I also think Linux has improved its overall “onboarding flow” and it’s made it easier for more people to hop on the Linux train.
Gaming is good, maybe just need some extra settings but it’s alright
I don’t really play any games that need any finicky Windows specific settings, and thankfully having a console at home means I don’t always have to game on my PC. (But, for the record, I totally can, and I do 😆 I just have more options now 😁)
I’ve played Umamusume: Pretty Derby on my Linux and it’s been a good experience, more or less feels the same with when I’d play it back on my Windows partition. I’m happy to also see that Cyberpunk 2077 is something I can play while on Linux, because back then, this was something unthinkable for me. Linux had the air of being just for coding, or just for work, not for fun and games. Maybe there were some fun stuff that was done thru open source projects… but not like how it is now where there’s now way more things to explore and tinker with.
More and more people are talking about Linux
Maybe discoverability also improved for some of the other programs or apps that can run or do run on Linux platforms. I just hear about it more now online and within my circles. Back then, I knew maybe 1 or 2 people who were Linux mains? But now it feels like that number has grown to maybe more than 5 😆 It’s still not a lot, sure, but definitely an improvement!
And with more and more people talking about how to get into Linux, what distro is best for what use case, Valve and Steam pushing the envelope for gaming on Linux with their Steam Deck updates and such, and just everyone else continuously making and building cool shit people can use, it feels nice to be part of this wave of people adopting this piece of technology that has been a part of all our computing history.
I hope more of my friends consider going into Linux. I know it’s not for everyone, and there is a learning curve to using it, but so is a new Windows update or a new Mac update. At least now Linux is catching up to that idea of having everything set up and just having them work out of the box.
It feels fun and refreshing to not have to struggle just to open a single program. I hope more people experience this joy, and hopefully Linux just gets better and better that more and more people will consider trying it out, like I did a few months ago 😆
