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what caused you to get into Linux? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When I was in college, two older classmates whom I respected got into a hilarious argument of why Gnome was awesome and now eats rocks (their views, I had no views).

Their elaborate and very specific descriptions of functions and inconveniences drew up a picture of functionality and a e s t h e t i c I had never experienced on windows. So I proceeded to install a distro and take it for a ride