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+Title: Goodbye Windows
+Subtitle: It's you, not me.
+Date: 2024-08-06
+Tags: windows, linux, debian
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+I finally did it. All the computers in my house are now running [debian](https://www.debian.org/) except for the office PC. I've
+used Windows for at least 30 years but over the last few years it's become more and more user hostile. After the latest
+[Windows Recall](https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall) push and the security implications surrounding it, I decided I could no longer
+keep running Windows on all the machines in my house.
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+Fox my linux distribution I went with [debian](https://www.debian.org/) because I want my machines to just work&trade;. I don't really know
+what to think about [Ubuntu](https://ubuntu.com/) and their snap packages and while I tried [fedora](https://fedoraproject.org/) and was initially
+impressed, I found that a few things subtley didn't work. [debian](https://www.debian.org/) seems to be super stable with packages in `apt` and for
+anything where I need the latest and greatest I just install it by hand or build it from source. It's a boring distribution but I see that
+as a good thing.
+
+I even installed it on my gaming PC and now have a console like experience up and running on it. I only enabled the "non-free" repos in
+[debian](https://www.debian.org/) and everything seems to work well enough even though I have an nVidia graphics card in it. I think only
+the open source nVidia driver is installed and not the proprietary one from nVidia but so far I haven't noticed any major problems. I found
+one game that wouldn't work from my Steam collection so far but that's it.