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[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 83 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

2017 for me!

(I had been using Linux on some systems since 2002 and first tried it in the late '90s, but 2017 was the year in which I ditched Windows even on my gaming machine, permanently.)

[โ€“] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 9 hours ago

Mine will be this year, I only have 1 system left to put Linux on.

I'm just currently learning some RAW photo editors before I cancel my Lightroom sub.

Fusion360 was dropped a few months ago when FreeCAD went 1.0 (after I learned it enough of course)

[โ€“] swagmoney@lemmy.ca 5 points 13 hours ago

mine is this year!

mine was last year

[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 30 points 20 hours ago

Every Year Is The Year Of The Linux Desktop!

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 17 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That's a fun take! My year of Linux was 2007.

[โ€“] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Same ๐Ÿ™‚ Around 2004 ish I started experimenting with live CDs of some KDE distro. I managed to also corrupt one of my hard drives doing so. Not a fun day I remember. But I learned some valuables that day, for sure.

[โ€“] LouSlash@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

And for many - it will be ๐Ÿ˜€