About This Site
Who are you?
My name is Mel, I'm a 30-something year old computer toucher from Scotland!
I deploy servers, manage & maintain endpoints, and train new users & the elderly how to use computers.
What's with the whole Linux thing?
Up until the start of 2025 I was the odd one out among my friends, someone would go off on a massive rant about how terrible Windows 11 was and I'd step in and point out ways to work around it.
It wasn't that bad, people were blowing things out of proportion, sure there were bad things but it was otherwise fine™.
After all, switching to Linux is a fools errand, right?
"The Year of the Linux Desktop"? Yeah, like that's ever going to happen!
Gaming sucks on it, lots of software doesn't work, it breaks a lot...
Then one day, my graphics driver on my main computer crashed, yet again, and Windows was being particularly stubborn about letting me get in to fix it.
So I spun up a Fedora Linux Live USB and booted into it to run diagnostics, back up files in case I needed to reinstall and... hey, this is quite comfy... isn't it? My graphics aren't freaking out either...
Linux has been very nice to me on my ThinkPad... maybe... I should try.
After a bit of a rough start trying an old favourite, openSUSE Tumbleweed, reinstalling Windows 11 in frustration, having the graphics card cack out again, testing Fedora again and then installing Nobara...
Everything worked, perfectly, out of the box.
I restored my backups, logged back into my password manager and got back to work.
That was January 2025, It's October 2025 as I write this, and I am still using Nobara on my main computer.
I don't even know when I last started my Windows Virtual Machine out of necessity
My ThinkPad runs Bluefin LTS, my Framework runs Aurora
I have not looked back.
So you Recommend Linux then?
Absolutely not.
Don't get me wrong, I love it, and I'm back to having fun using my computer again.
But for others, no, absolutely not.
For your average user migrating from Windows, there are still too many weird caveats and odd differences between it and Linux.
I'm fine, and my friends are fine, because we have experience to work around these little quirks.
But the vast majority of consumers still run Windows, it's what everyone's used to, it's what everyone uses at work, it's what everyone grew up with, it's what everything is written for...
Asking people to up sticks and change to a whole new Operating System on a whim is stupid.
So why bother with a site like this?
Because I want my opinion to change, I want to be able to say "yes" to people that approach me frustrated about the latest thing Microsoft has shoved Copilot into, or that their relatively new computer is now "unsupported" by Microsoft.
I want to be able to say "Yes, switching to Linux is a good idea, let's get you started!"
That's what this site is for.
For me to build a knowledge base to help my friends and colleagues move to Linux, if and when they want to.