I first tried Ubuntu it was around 2004, I had an old Dell laptop and was tinkering around with. It didn’t stick though because driver issues and app support and it was my only PC, so no real way to troubleshoot and find drivers to fix it. So I ended up loading Windows Server 2000 onto it as it seemed better than the consumer options of XP or ME. Then again, maybe in 2006, I tried Ubuntu on a PowerPC Macbook Pro, didn’t stick with it again due to software limitations, but drivers were better on that laptop.

I really got to using Ubuntu again since about 2017. This was a bit after M$FT introduced .Net Core 1.0 in 2016 with cross platform support. I figured I could try the new flavour of .Net on Linux while using C#. It wasn’t a perfect experience but it was working. I’ve had dual boot on most of my machines since then, but today most of my devices have just Ubuntu or Mint now.

Currently typing this on Ubuntu, but Windows 11 is on the box. None of my main passwords and accounts get used on the Windows partition and I’ve setup separate emails and accounts so M$FT only gets to see some of my stuff. I’m on the fence and thinking of wiping that partition and just using Ubuntu exclusively since Windows 11 lags in some of my workflows. I mean I have a AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, 64GB ram and 2x2TB NVME, RTX 3090 + RTX 5080 and Windows 11 still crawls doing some things. I’ve even used Win11debloat (https://github.com/raphire/win11debloat) and Windows 11 just sucks.

I think I can do everything I want in Ubuntu these days, with the exception of a few select games, but I’m older now and not that heavily into gaming so not a big deal really. Not really sure why I’m holding onto Windows.