Currently at 319 contributions on OpenStreetMap since the 22 of December 2022 some part of south Italy are not mapped at all so I’m trying my best to make at least usable.
If someone want to contribute to osm StreetComplete let you add simple tags to already existing tags and let you add stores with a monstrous simplicity!
Anyway tell your girlfriend that apple maps and bing maps use data from openstreet map and are huge contributors to the project, in fact the default map when you edit in osm is from bing!
Honestly? My old laptop was having issues (not major but not ideal in terms of overall performance) running Windows 10 and it inspired me to try out a few distros. I later learned after trying a few:
Overall Linux isn’t scary at all, with an abundance of tutorials and documentation provided. (Just be aware of trying not to solve all problems with random hammers, or rather using any tutorial to fix the symptoms you’re having)
In terms of customization it’s second to none. Privacy wise has been well documented, but even aesthetically via the UI you have a ton of options. (Plug for [email protected] for some inspiration.)
Finally it’s nice just to tinker with Linux as a project. There’s only so much you can do with Windows or MacOS, while Linux is open and allows for a variety of programs, tools, and more. It allows you to get more comfortable with your computer and by extension more comfortable with technology in general!
I don't remember my exact first experiences, it was ages ago, like probably almost a couple decades, and I think with something like OpenSUSE. My first real experience came a bit later with Linux Mint, which I used on a Laptop, while continuing with Windows on my desktop, specifically for my gaming needs. Back then we just had Wine, and it was still a hot mess, but I was able to play some Guild Wars for example and other games fairly decently already. A few years ago, after the Windows 10 "freebie" nuked itself and my entire C partition, with all its data on it (especially the hidden user folders), I continued a little with 7 but shortly after my gpu died. I didn't knew which component at the time, as it started to hang during the boot process, so I assumed other components. Anyway, I didn't had a desktop for well over a year after, and used above laptop to at least browse the web and watch videos, and test some Linux distros. I eventually landed at Manjaro, which also later became my system OS on my newly built desktop a couple years ago. From there I went to EOS after I wanted to switch to btrfs for the system partition anyway, which nuked itself recently. Since the community rather wanted to troll and gaslight instead of helping me I left EOS behind and am currently experiencing the horrors of Gnome in Nobara, which I didn't used since the Unity rework, and am probably trying the KDE version soonish, because there's just too many issues and lack of baseline functions that I need and miss from KDE, and it's also just way too buggy.
When I was at uni a professor asked the class to raise their hands if we were using Windows and then MacOS. Then he asked who was using a REAL operating system. Everyone looked confused. He proceded to order all to install linux if we were to follow his class. My First distro was Ubuntu for about a week… I distrohopped for a couple of years and eventually I use arch btw.
I do a lot, we also use the OpenStreetMap data for my work. I enjoy it but it’s definitely lacking in some areas, and there’s no app that really comes close to being a Google Maps replacement sadly.
If nothing else works(Mint, Arch, Elementary, Fedora) for you use Alpine. It’s a bit weird with how small it is and it won’t be full features but the whole OS is measured in MBs. There is an option to install a desktop client.
Bought a book/CD combo from Borders for SUSE Linux when I was in middle school around 2003. Installed it but then went back to windows when I realized networking didn’t work.
I was running LiteStep on Windows at the time, but wanted something more OSX like, ended up coming across Mandrake/Mandriva. Which led me to Slackware, which at the time was considered the ‘IUseArchBTW’ version of Linux.
Since then I’ve tried just about everything, the only real constant has been Debian. Every server I spin up is Debian based and has been since the early 00s.
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