I’ve watched the other Linus (the one with the tech tips) on a month long daily driver challenge for Linux and I just can’t bring myself to dive in voluntarily for all the headaches and incompatibilities I know I’ll uncover - those presented, and about a thousand others sure to come up for each individual user.

I used to LOVE flashing roms on my devices. Started with my PSP, installing CFW so I could install homebrew. Then it was my phone and I loved the flexibility to do things Android couldn’t do or didn’t want me to be able to do. It was basically a hobby all unto itself, checking for new feature updates, sometimes taking a nightly build to fix a bug, finding a problem and deep diving for the right root application to fix it, whatever the case. Now I do too much with my phone to have a broken user created 5g radio, or GPS is currently broken in this ROM, or my homescreen glitches out when I switch apps rapidly. I just don’t have the patience or time for my phone that I need to be able to trust to work - to not work, and good luck finding the root cause.

Same sort of deal with my PC. I already have a VERY unusual setup to begin with, using Aster v7 to multiseat both my wife and myself on the same computer. It’s over specced to the point that we can pretty easily play games simultaneously without issue. Aster SOMETIMES presents usability issues, but nothing like what Linux would do. And while I haven’t investigated it, I’d bet that it would be a real struggle to replicate this setup in Linux. But my weird edge case aside, I’m fully capable and yet completely disinterested in converting because I just need it to work, for everything I’m doing, and without a 2 hour rabbit hole on why I can’t install this one dependency I need.

I have a couple bootable flash drives laying around and have dualbooted computers in the past. But I just don’t think I could fully migrate today.