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what caused you to get into Linux?

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What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?

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GlenTheFrog@lemmy.ml
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Interesting how there’s so many answers here, but no mention of the one I came here for (and I thought would be most popular) : ricing.

I got into Linux when I saw screenshots of all the cool desktops people made with KDE, XFCE, and tiling window managers. Even Gnome looked sleek and minimal. After a while I got bored of ricing but I stayed for the ease of use as a developer

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Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
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Ricing is great, but it’s probably not a thing that makes a whole lot of people switch to Linux…

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