Full 1 year of using Linux, it's my Linux birthday

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Today is January 21, the date when I started using Linux for real and also date on which I registered to linux.org as you can see in below my avatar :)

All that I'm going to say is, there is absolutely no way to return back to Windows, there is not a single reason.
Linux concepts and how to do this or that is far from alien to me at this point.

All games I care about work fine, I no longer do any kind of coding in spare time so I don't miss anything from MSFT such as docs and easy to learn libraries etc; that was the hardest to accept while switching to Linux because re-learning could at least a year.
Debian 12 which I'm using since switch still works as if it's fresh installed, there are only very few complaints about accumulated garbage on system such as nonexistent systemd units that are displayed as existing (because they were removed) and are hard to clean up, and program specific accumulated garbage in home directory which can be deleted manually with few minutes of effort, other than this system works fast and without needing to reinstall which I had to do while using Windows to get fresh and full performance.

One of greatest thing about using Linux is plenty of solid software to choose from as alternatives to Windows only programs, and since it's all open source if feels even better.
 


Happy Birthday 1 year Old Linux User @CaffeineAddict, Great job. :)
Hope to see you around for many more years!
 
Only a year! Seems like you have been around a lot longer
 
It's cool that you actually know the date. If you've made it for a full year, you can likely go the rest of your life with Linux. Well, assuming Linux lasts that long. This is the tech world, a world where disruption is common.

Me? I have absolutely no idea what specific day it was when I switched. I might be able to guess the month. I do know the year. So, there's that.
 
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Happy Linux anniversary indeed! And also I agree with the folks above, I feel I've been seeing you around since forever (my forever in this forum is 2020!)
 
Happy Linux Birthday. Yeah using Linux is reasonably stress free and it is a pleasure to change up distros every once and awhile.
 
Happy birthday indeed!

You've surpassed me and I've been using linux for a couple of decades - I still fire up a Windows box almost every day to spend a few minutes on a legacy flash game that the old browser on that box still supports.
 
One year of Linux is better than 20 yrs of windoze.
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Man, I've given MSFT so much money over the years. Lately, it has only been by extension. Like, when I bought this laptop it had Windows 10 Pro on it. The bill for that license was included in the price of the laptop. Then, as a business owner... (And we used Windows on a few servers for things like AD, roaming profiles, and stuff like that. Server liceses, by seat, add up pretty quickly.)
 
Like, when I bought this laptop it had Windows 10 Pro on it. The bill for that license was included in the price of the laptop.
Oh yes, that counts as paying them for the OS, it's hard to avoid it if buying complete PC instead of assembling from zero.
Laptops without Windows are especially hard to avoid.
 


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