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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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I finally nuked windows (lemm.ee)

submitted 9 months ago by IsoSpandy@lemm.ee to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

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[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

what do you mean by your windows storage being "in limbo"?

[–] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Basically the windows partition was taking up around 250 gb. And wasn't even booting into it. Sure I could access it from Linux, but it was literally useless.

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[–] TwinTusks@bitforged.space 2 points 9 months ago

I only use Windows for work nowadays, I have a mind to swap it with Linux too but afraid it'll mess up with some programs.

[–] MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml -2 points 9 months ago

8 gigs of update after leaving for 6 months is a sensible thing to occur. I don't know why it is a thing to be enraged by.

I mean, if you don't update an OS and you come back to check go updates, it will pile on to become a huge update like the 8 gigs.

Lastly, don't distrohop because it is not there, there is always something that exists that can give you what you want.

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