@Cannacheques
@lemmy.worldNo it's simple, if everyone is using Windows for engineering software, making everyone switch to Linux is going to have to involve a whole group, if you're one person, you've got very little incentive to change your whole workflow
Linux is free, if you can be bothered learning how to drive again. It's like driving a manual when everyone else has an auto
Yeah nah I think of it kinda like the whole custom ROMs thing for Android. Most people could care less until performance drops to the degree that they have to switch over
Nah bro, don't get let yourself get locked into shit, get both, just get one laptop running two o.s and use whichever one suits the job you're trying to do
Trick is to try live off live USB mode, learn from old textbooks, pen and notepads and a phone with less than 1gb data, to record stuff. Now we call it hard mode, but really it's "just the norms" haha
You get really crap at typing keywords and Google image search and really good at looking through indexes and table of contents for the right chapter.