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.
I think my roommates installed it on a pc in college so we are talking pre 95 but I had no idea what it was but it was in the days when they were screwing around with os/2 before win95 came out. I did not really use it until after 2000 though and that was when working in a place that was an irix shop so had the general nix experience going as I was starting to use linux. freebsd at about the same time.
For me I was always interested in alternative OS’. I didn’t necessarily dislike windows, I just thought Linux was fascinating and liked playing around with the different ways to do things and accomplish tasks.
It was only later in life that I learned how excessive windows data collection was and became uncomfortable with using it that I began to seek out linux as a full alternative and try to decouple myself from the windows ecosystem.
How long is “a while”? I’ve had it open for around 30 minutes now and I’m not seeing what you’re describing. Around the 15 minute mark I also tried clicking through various tabs, performing some actions, etc. and memory usage is still staying steady at 247MiB.
That is a very good question. Short answer: I don’t know as I am not familiar with the project.
I have had a brief look at the issue tracker and it doesn’t seem to be mentioned on there. Perhaps I will raise an issue later when I am at my computer (or if anyone else beats me to it then please feel free).
Mine was a Raspberry Pi in the early 2010s - I‘d had relatively little experience with computers before and had no idea what a terminal was (or even Linux for that matter, tbh), so it took me a good couple of weeks to even figure out how to reach the desktop… Used Windows most of the time after that, but got back into Linux via Ubuntu a couple of years ago. I‘ve now switched to Fedora as my daily driver and wouldn‘t go back either :)
1997, I was 22, it was m68k on an 030 Amiga 1200… for some reason.
I seem to remember I had to buy an FPU to plug into my 030 accelerator, specifically to get this to run. I have no idea what I wanted it for, other than curiosity. I got it working, played around with it for ten minutes, then deleted the partition.
I tried Linux on and off many times after that, but always bounced off it. The last time, 2021, I installed Linux Mint and it has finally stuck.
Caldera OpenLinux^[a chorus of “ding dong, the witch is dead” may be appropriate here], in 1999. It didn’t really impress me, and I went back to Windows 98SE (then 2K Pro) until 2005 . . . at which point I found Gentoo, and it was love at first compile. 😅
Linus Torvalds said somewhere, that in a weird irony, the reason why he made Linux in the first place was to use it on his desktop computer, yet desktop is the only market where Linux has not completely crushed all of its competition.
It is getting better. But most people CANT use it as a daily driver.
The unfortunate relaity is that MS rules the business space, and without native Outlook/Teams/Office is pretty tough. You can skimp by with browser based versions but still…That not gonna cut it for julie from HR i guess.
I have been seriously considering trying it at work. But I do admin work. So many of the tools I use are opensource. Will still need RDP though.
I use organic maps, based on openstreetmap, it has more information than i expected but still much less than google. It’s almost on par with apple maps where I live, both significantly worse than google.
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