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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:11:24 JST nixCraft 🐧

   How long have you been using #Linux as a daily driver?

   • Duck User ⚡ (duckuser3@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:12:42 JST Duck User ⚡

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     @nixCraft 2 Years

   • B.Abderrahmane (_abderrahmane_@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:14:43 JST B.Abderrahmane

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     @nixCraft
     About a year as my main OS, but that doesn't mean I never used linux before, I'm a network engineer, so I use for servers and as VMs/tools for many years ago.

   • Stitch infernalis (christhulhu@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:15:38 JST Stitch infernalis

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     @nixCraft 20 years

   • Dave (sudoaptgetlife@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:17:01 JST Dave

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     @nixCraft counting chromeOS about 5 years, if not then about a year using Pop!_OS as my daily driver.

   • @threeforks@Mastodon.Social (threeforks@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:18:55 JST @threeforks@Mastodon.Social

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     @nixCraft 6 years, maybe 7. Combo of distributions, some Pop_os, mostly Linux Mint

   • Charles Gillogly (charlesgillogly@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:25:12 JST Charles Gillogly

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     @nixCraft Windows hasn't been on a personal or work computer (except as a VM for tasks that require it) since 2004. Windows has not seen bare metal since then.

   • djinnsour (djinnsour@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:27:10 JST djinnsour

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     @nixCraft
     Started noticing I was spending most of my time in Linux around 2006-2008. Virtual machines had become a valid option for Windows, so I switched as a test. Never really looked back, switched my home setup soon after. The last decade I've only used Windows for Windows admin specific tasks, remotely, or a few support issues.

     Unless you are a gamer or regularly use some Windows only software, there is nothing you are missing.

   • Olle Gladsø (gladso@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:28:06 JST Olle Gladsø

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     @nixCraft 25+ years. Mandrake. Mandriva. Mepis.
     Debian. Sticking with Debian.

   • Марко Пејовић (peja@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:29:28 JST Марко Пејовић

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     @nixCraft Since 2011

   • bluezip (bluezip@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:30:18 JST bluezip

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     @nixCraft 20 years here, never looked back from day 1.

   • andabata (andabata@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:39:49 JST andabata

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     @nixCraft About 25years

   • Linux_Is_Best (linux_is_best@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:40:46 JST Linux_Is_Best

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     @nixCraft How long have I used Linux?

     Arguably, since the beginning.

     How long as a dedicated daily driver?

     If we're counting dual-booting, then around the time of Windows ME.

     If we're talking about when I wipe all drives and left Windows in the dust, then around Windows 8.

   • cbp (cbp@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:42:14 JST cbp

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     @nixCraft About 20 years. Started with Caldera Openlinux and Debian "woody".

   • vermaden (vermaden@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:47:27 JST vermaden

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     @nixCraft

     About 2 years.

     First Slackware (6 months).

     Then Gentoo (6 months).

     Then moved to FreeBSD.

     After 2 years I switched back to Ubuntu for 1 year as my ASUS P5B-V motherboard with Intel X3000 GPU based on G965 chipset was not supported by FreeBSD.

     After that 1 year and disgusting period of PulseAudio bullshit I changed hardware and moved back to FreeBSD.

     Now its almost two decades of FreeBSD.

     Details:

     https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2018/09/07/my-freebsd-story/

   • DuckyVanDuckduck (heschy@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:56:13 JST DuckyVanDuckduck

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     @nixCraft I think it is a year now. (2, but interrupted)

   • Erik Terpstra (erikterpstra@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 03:56:47 JST Erik Terpstra

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     @nixCraft 26 years

   • Patrick Schriner (pschriner@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 04:01:25 JST Patrick Schriner

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     @nixCraft 7 years for work

   • Douglas Kilpatrick (kilpatds@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 04:03:28 JST Douglas Kilpatrick

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     @nixCraft bout 20 years?

   • Steven Dubois :pika: (stevendubois@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 04:15:06 JST Steven Dubois :pika:

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     @nixCraft ~3 years

   • Psycodepath (psycodepath@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 04:19:37 JST Psycodepath

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     @nixCraft currently for a year.

   • Matthias R. Koch (manankanchu@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 04:25:40 JST Matthias R. Koch

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     @nixCraft

     ~20 years ... 15 years on the desktop

   • Roy (rabirk@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 04:26:04 JST Roy

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     @nixCraft Ten years.

   • Tech10 (tech10@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 04:55:23 JST Tech10

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     @nixCraft currently running linux mint since a couple weeks ago, because windows was getting terribly slow, but i used linux as a daily driver before on other computers of mine so i'd say counting all of the computers i had in the past about 6 years of linuxing.

   • Pedro (pavalos@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 05:17:57 JST Pedro

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     @nixCraft For about a year and a half now.

   • David de Torres (maellyssa@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 05:19:18 JST David de Torres

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     @nixCraft 25 years

   • Lerret (lerret@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 05:33:32 JST Lerret

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     @nixCraft about 3 years

   • Aleš Časar (casar@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 06:09:59 JST Aleš Časar

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     @nixCraft 29 years. Linux kernel version was still 0.something back then.

   • julia zylinder (zyjul@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 06:25:23 JST julia zylinder

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     @nixCraft since 2000

   • glutto (glutto@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 07:10:41 JST glutto

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     @nixCraft
     Since the start of the year 2020. Windows 7 support had stopped, and with it, my use of Windows. I scheduled a major computer upgrade and switched to Linux at the same time.
     Bounced around a few different distros. A bit rocky at first, but all is fine now.
     When very cutting edge Linux software is labeled "unstable, use at own risk", learn the easy way. Stay on stable releases.

   • Nathan A. Stine (stinerman@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 07:12:44 JST Nathan A. Stine

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     @nixCraft Red Hat 9 or so.

   • kitsastro (kitsastro@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 09:05:44 JST kitsastro

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     @nixCraft
     0

   • 拔刀问路 (longlivecarryon@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 09:17:13 JST 拔刀问路

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     @nixCraft fire years

   • Charlie (boscozebra@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 10:17:49 JST Charlie

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     @nixCraft A year or two now.

   • Spirals (spirals@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 14:47:46 JST Spirals

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     @nixCraft Fifteen years, I'm kinda surprised its so long, I don't think I've figured it out before. Damn time flies.

   • Rayane Benamre (rayaneb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 20:55:14 JST Rayane Benamre

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     @nixCraft It's over a year now :)

   • Daniel (djoot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Aug-2023 00:11:10 JST Daniel

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     @nixCraft For how ever long Windows 10 has been out, it crapped out my laptop at the time, and I needed it to work for educational purposes, now I manage my own linux servers, and is slowly converting windows servers at work to linux when possible.

   • Erik Ellsinger (ellsinger@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Aug-2023 06:15:48 JST Erik Ellsinger

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     @nixCraft About 2 years, popos convinced me