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Like middle-aged spread, you became progressively more bloated, your moments of freezing became obvious and inconvenient, and the delays to open some indispensable pieces of software became too long to simply explain as the result of having other apps running in the background.

This dialogue has been an unwelcome guest rather a lot of late.īut over the last few years, I’ve noticed that our relationship has slowly become one less of harmony and more of frustration. Together we made a lot of people happy, and for that I will always be grateful. Even the Unity desktop couldn’t break our relationship, those Linux Mint people weren’t going to tear us asunder! You captured my text, edited my videos and images, created my PCBs and CAD projects, and did countless more computing tasks. My trusty Dell Inspiron 640 ran you for over a decade through several RAM, HDD, and SSD upgrades, and provided Hackaday readers with the first few years of my writing. We’ve been together for close to two decades now, and in that time we’ve looked each other in the eye across a variety of desktop and laptop computers.

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You replaced the other distros I’d been using, you dual-booted with my Windows machines, and pretty soon you supplanted the Microsoft operating system entirely. In our early days as an item you gave me for the first time a Linux distro that was complete, fast, and easy to use without spending too much time at the CLI or editing config files to make things happen you gave me a desktop that was smooth and uncluttered, and you freed me from all those little utilities that were required to make Windows usable. The magic that once brought us together has faded, and what remains is in danger of becoming a frustration. I want to start by saying that our time together has been one of creativity and entertainment, a time in which you gave me the tools to develop a new career, to run a small electronics business, make fun things, and to write several thousand articles for Hackaday and other publications, but for all that it’s sadly time for our ways to part.

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