Hello everyone, it's me again. I haven't been active online that much in the past two weeks since I had like a vacation in Japan with my family. I had a pretty great time there going to three cities, Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. During my free time.
I actually went to look for different distros besides Arch that I could use as my main OS in a virtual machine. I tried Void Linux which is a pretty underrated distro that has balance between stability and rolling release... I kind of liked it but I think it's package respository is kind of limited
compared to Arch Linux's pacman packages and AUR. So, considering I'm desperate to move away from Windows 11 as possible since I got home from the holiday, I chose Ubuntu as my main OS.
Getting to the point on why I switched to Linux. I got fed up with Microsoft and also using Windows 11 as a whole. Mainly, because Microsoft announced some AI feature that seemed pretty privacy-invasive called Recall or fully known as CoPilot Recall. Which I've seen a lot
from my favourite Linuxtubers and also tech-based YouTubers talking about this privacy-invasive feature that almost felt like an actual spyware. Knowing Microsoft, I doubt they might make it optional. Because I had a lot of annoyances with Microsoft Onedrive which syncs every application and file in my computer and had a lot of issues with it. I actually
tried to turn it off and it worked, but in a new update, OneDrive turns on everytime whenever I boot up my gaming laptop and I had to Quit OneDrive everytime. That's when I had enough. So, I took a spare bootable USB drive and I installed my first choice of a beginner-friendly distro called
Linux Mint. the installation was kind of decent, though. I also chose the option to remove Windows 11 from my disk and just install Linux Mint. Until when I tried to boot it up after installing from a bootable USB drive, Linux Mint couldn't run due to the lack of Mok Manager which is strange for some reason. I got pissed off though and kind of
anxious. Luckily, I had a spare laptop to try again. This time, I installed Ubuntu for my bootable USB drive again. This time, it finally works. Right now, I could just rest easy now that I'm no longer using Windows and I can finally get back into my hobbies.
Anyways, I still remembered I wanted to use Arch Linux and tried using it in Virtualbox. Realistically speaking, I don't think I want to use it as my main OS for my laptop since I've got hobbies that I want to do like, gaming, writing my personal stories, doing art and also trying to work on
my personal website. Not only that, I was desperate to get the fuck out from Windows 11 immediately and move to Linux. So, I chose Ubuntu. I know Ubuntu gets a lot of hate because of it's previous telemetry and data collection contoroversy in the past older versions that even Richard Stallman talked about it and he despised it. So far, the newer version I'm using which is the
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, not much issues so far. I mean, generally Linux is pretty much privacy-friendly because of it's open-source nature. I guess for now, I'd probably use Ubuntu probably it's desktop look is very distinct which is something I like. I probably still plan on using Debian maybe
in the future, but I'll see how much I like Ubuntu.
So... if I want to revisit Arch, I'd probably buy a cheap Thinkpad laptop, probably a T480 and older ones. Since I'm growing a bit of interest in these magnificient bulky laptops that are meant only for business kind of stuff but also very tinkerable and can run Linux entirely. I think the older laptops before T480 which is stated to be the last great Thinkpad according to
the enthusiasts. I'd probably buy a cheap and refurbished one so that I can install probably either Arch or Gentoo on it and make it my secondary laptop, which means I don't have to stress to much since I'm using on a secondary laptop rather than my main one... I might make a page dedicated to my Thinkpad collection
if I feel like it. :3 Oh yes, I would still continue making MSPaint art, mainly just using a free and open-source alternative software that is KolourPaint which I mentioned before that has the classic look. Yeah, I prefer the KolourPaint UI design than the newer Windows 11 MSPaint, the new one is too simplistic and I hate it.
Overall, I think the reason why I made the decision to switch to Linux is because I needed some privacy, some customizability and I wanted to have full control of my system including my own personal data. I also didn't like the bloatware that Windows 11 has which took up too much of my storage space. I also don't like having updates that I dislike
such as the new design for MSPaint or new updates that are unneccessary like having OneDrive turn on everytime I booted up my laptop. Yeah... I think that's all of my complaints about how much I fucking despise Windows 11. I wished I could've switched to Linux earlier when I bought my new gaming laptop
had I knew and understand about it then I wouldn't have Windows 11 as my main OS. Anyways, it's over now. I'm glad I got away from it. So, I guess this will be the start of my journey as a full-time Linux user. See ya around!