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0 pointstempoponet19d ago0 comments

I can actually use and enjoy Linux. The "year of the desktop" never came for me, but instead I got the "year of the cli".

For 20 years I've used Linux in one form or another, but I've felt like I was kneecapped for the most basic things. Just trying to plug in an external drive or a second display meant hours of stack overflow and pasting commands I didn't understand.

Now I'm using several Linux machines for Steam, NAS, local LLM, development, and what used to derail a weekend project now amounts to a coffee break while Claude figures it out.

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jollyjerry18d ago

It changed the cost/benefits for papercuts. Instead of thinking, that's annoying, but not annoying enough to fix, I can spend a few minutes running things specific to my configuration. Fixing bluetooth, fingerprint readers were recent ones.

nowittyusername18d ago

ha, same. The main reason I was able to switch to and stay on linux was because codex was able to set it up for me and is still managing to this day all the stuff i need done on linux. i tried so many times to switch out of windows before but the difficulties of installing linux and managing all the dependencies, drivers and all the other stuff put the OS out of reach for me. Now I just tell codex to update the latest nvidia drivers for me and whatever else and not worry about doing any of that stuff manually.

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