I finally ditched windblows for Linux this January 2025. I should have 7-9 years ago. I am bent on removing m$ and glmaogle from my existence, along with the rest. For I still have music files and endless photos scattered among the (awful) clouds. I wish I had in 2017 when AMD's zen came out but I wasn't aware enough at the time. AMD + Linux is so awesome, I think it's the way to compute now.
I've used ubuntu a bit but I've had trouble with getting older versions of python to function previously on my laptop. I thought about debian or arch.. I wanted to head over to the fedora/tumbleweed side, and tumbleweed seems a little lighter and faster for a desktop. It has been really great, so much so I hope to contribute. I am also German and it feels like some heritage is left for me here. At first it was a bit slow to boot and shutdown, but after AM5 motherboard updates, distro updates, and also using a more up to date sddm package, it is within the 10 second range on both sides (the maintainers should fix this, it is within the build service and the old version in the main repo was causing up to 2 minute long shutdowns, way too long.)
I really enjoy the chameleon and the opposite fedora angled infinity symbol. They better not take the chameleon away when they have to rebrand from SUSE to just Tumbleweed or I will immediately abandon ship.
I am really impressed by linux, especially with what has happened to the other OSes. Both are obsessed with bogging down your expensive hardware with inescapable AI and remote cloud account nonsense, and even taking up physical space on your consumer computer. All those sectors wasted on the parts that will become dead weight ewaste in just a few years. When doing generative AI, you want to spend on as much computing power as possible to meet your end. The typical laptop owner doesn't have a chance to use what the model is capable of with just a tiny chip consuming a few microvolts to do what regex can do a hundred times over with the same electricity. Those who want to use generative AI will want to drop more than 5 figures on H100s or A100s and such because then the model is hitting it's prime accuracy and context length, as well as power draw.
I just want the frame, 170 of them a second, not an AI artifact of what should be there. I think AI itself is a good investment, there is a lot of reason to have neural representations of things. This should be a rarity though and not the home standard, it was expirimental from day one in 2021 and prior. It has no use in the home unless specifically sought. I don't have problems searching my drive for a file when windows takes ages to find one, after leaking a web search for a personal file. I don't have problems with updates because windows nowadays has everything segmented under three different versions of context menus then buttons will be greyed out requiring another surgical registry edit. Here I can just sudo zypper dup, press y and it's done after much less time. Nothing ever breaks, and if it does snapper came automatically setup with the distro, which saved me so many times since you can just boot into your previously OS save state, automatically created on every package change, do snapper rollback and fix the problem or wait for it to be fixed. The primary snapshot only takes up about 10GB for all the packages I have today and it has 10 slots out of the box for smaller changes so you can even go back over more actions without adding huge storage weight. It was the most suprising and welcome safety I found since when windows breaks it sends you to the depths of DOS. Albeit zypper is somewhat slow compared to other package managers apparently.
Linux will be in the right direction permanently. It's shocking that I can run old games, even copy pasted from my old drive, on wine FASTER than windows will ever get again. Why is it this way? Windows has not rewritten enough under the hood and they are not willing to start a new daunting architecture. Linux is always capable of molding to the current state of C. It's sad that when it gave so many great experiences in the 2000s, the corporate failure to take action led to the point where linux will take user dominance in a shocking upset. This is not even getting to how much better an AMD processor is than the competitor.
That is what you dear reader are here for, so you may remember I am stating for the record that linux could easily overtake OS usage in this decade. So I can say aha I knew it. Maybe I will be able to become a contributer too :)
I want to make the next writing on why Nvidia shouldn't waste space on their lower GPUs for hybrid AI, how AMD didn't do that for their 9070 series and sold out in minutes. Or maybe not but, I just want the frame and antialiasing on the frame! Why must even the supposed crowning achievement of lithography get so lost?