For the last 10 years, I was wanting to make the move to Linux.

It had to come down to a unfortunate "event" of me not working and struggling to find work for the last year since 2025 July. But because I am a white male and being discriminated against from the Current South African Government (ANC - African National Congress), forcing companies in South Africa to adhere to BBBEE Laws (Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Laws), I have only 7% chance of landing any position at a company in South Africa.

So for the last year I have worked on my skills on self-hosting via my HomeLab, including starting learning journey to learn a programming language called Golang, and finally I have taken the step, as I view it I was given the ability to take the step, to move my developer workflow completely to Linux and so I opted to Install Fedora KDE Linux. Have not looked back and loving my experience deep ingrained in Linux.

I must say that I do agree I need to use sometimes AI for certain CLI commands but as I use Linux more and more I get more comfortable with the terminal.

One thing that I have found is quite useful is to add bash shell scripts to my self-hosted Gitea repositories for common tasks, for example. `git-sync.sh` Would do the common add->commit->pull->push but with a command line comment message passed and defaulting to a default comment message.

I daily-drive Fedora 43 KDE for almost one year and there's no coming back on Windows env. For one soft. dev. student, a really interesting OS especially with KDE (better for transition and first time seeing GNU/Linux). When you deep-dive, Terminal is your best friend (I do full git manip via terminal but don't know how to create a branch from IDE hahaha)

I've run MX Linux/Xfce for a while now and love it.

Mint was a good portal into Linux from Windows but that didn't last very long.

Nowadays, there is no reason to return to Windows, unless you have a masochistic kind of mentality.

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