Personal Transition to Linux Desktop: Planning Full Migration from Windows by 2026
By
todsacerdoti
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
The author announces that 2026 will be their personal 'Year of the Linux Desktop,' having not booted into Windows for over three months on their main computer. They find Windows 11 increasingly intolerable and plan to consolidate their three SSDs into btrfs drives running Fedora Linux. The article reflects on how Linux desktop usability has improved to the point where maintaining a Windows partition no longer seems worthwhile.
Key quotes
· 4 pulled2026 is going to be The Year of The Linux Desktop for me.
I haven't booted into Windows in over 3 months on my tower and I'm starting to realize that it's not worth wasting the space for.
I've been merely tolerating Windows 11 for a while but recently it's gotten to the point where it's just absolutely intolerable.
Somehow Linux on the desktop has gotten so much better by not even doing anything differently.
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