I've been using Ubuntu 18.04 now for a while and it's really astonishingly supportive of the modern applications. I love, and live in, the terminal/CLI 90% of the time, but when I need a browser, or an office app, or vid-conf, or audio, ... after many years of waiting and struggling, Linux has arrived.
Mind you, I absolutely LOATHE "systemd" -- the startup/init system adopted by most Linux distros over the past few years. It's badly broken and no one admits it and fixes it.
But I can tolerate systemd better than all the BS that Microsoft layered into Win10.
I had great hopes for Win10. Under the hood it's a great operating system. But they don't give you a way to work with it without using their godforsaken UI. PowerShell is nice but it ain't close. Overall, Win10 has become a disappointment to me. It's a shame, really... it could have been so much better.
“I’ve been using Ubuntu 18.04 now for a while and it’s really astonishingly supportive of the modern applications.”
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I use Xubuntu. One of the things I really like about Linux is when you update, the system update also updates your installed programs. You don’t get all that piddling around with a dozen different programs as you do in Windows.
“I love, and live in, the terminal/CLI 90% of the time”
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You Linux Luddite!!!