Nice. I was using System Monitoring Center, but that’s based on Python and it uses a bit too much system resources, in my opinion. It’s pretty, though.
It was nothing to do with the positives of Linux, it was the negatives of Windows. If they hadn’t gone full spyware after Windows 7 I’d still be using Windows today
Not technically Linux, but a friend of mine ran a public-accessible Unix box in the mid-to-late 80s. He let me do some admin stuff on it even though I had basically no idea what I was doing. Other than that, I did a lot of Usenetting on it.
I made the switch when windows ME was released, right now I’m using win10 for work because of some software that really doesn’t have an alternative in Linux but I do run it on all of my other computers. Benefits:
customization: If you want a desktop environment there’s KDE, Gnome or XFCE, if you want just windows or a tiling window manager there’s tons of them too
package managers: update all your software on your own terms while you brew some coffee.
scripting capabilities: you can automate lots of stuff with bash.
scalability: do you have a potato computer, no problem, do you have a nice one, even better.
Edit: I forgot to say that I run Debian on most of my machines.
Use it and love it. I live in the countryside and google just doesn’t bother capturing footpaths. Using OSM (I use OpenMultiMaps for Android) I can see contour maps, much clearer transport maps, footpaths, and pretty much anything else I need. Occasionally the notes people write have been handy too, for example for marking footpaths that are poorly maintained or turb into a swap in rain
My first disro was red hat 6.2 which wikipedia tells me was released in April 2000. I was fed up with Windows being crappy and crashing so I decided to try an alternative. Well, it didn’t crash like Windows did that is for sure but I spent a ton of time tinkering and upgrading and compiling. Linux has come a long long way since then. I have mostly stuck to it. I had a job that supplied me with a macbook for a while so for a few years I used osx, but I never fully went back to Windows. Now with proton making gaming more accessible on Linux I have no reason to ever go back.
Awesome, thanks for the post! I’ve been aware of OSM for a long time, but haven’t thought about it in a while. After a couple of good app recommendations from the comments, I am surprised how far it’s come. Definitely going to start using/contributing as much as I can.
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