Three months into a full Linux desktop migration, the author has booted Windows exactly twice: once for a multipage scan, once to print a school photo under deadline pressure. That's it.

The silence is the story. No catastrophic failures, no driver disasters, no forced troubleshooting sessions. The install, done without prior research or a safety net, eventually stopped feeling like an experiment and started feeling like a computer.

The full piece is worth reading not for the conclusion, which is obvious from the headline, but for the specific friction points that did appear and how minor they turned out to be. If you are still treating Linux as a project rather than a platform, this is your data point.

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