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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
the best thing i did was spend last month deleting the partitions in my desktop and laptop and installing mint.
I’ve been on Arch for a little while now, and Kubuntu before that. After Valve launched Proton on Steam, I found myself almost never booting into Windows. Once I ran out of disk space, it was an easy decision to completely purge Windows from my machine. Haven’t looked back in years.
Fuck Microsoft for trying to control my computer. Finally nice not having it reinstall Candy Crush after every update. And none of that copilot or online account bullshit.
That’s such a nice thing about Linux and FOSS in general. The issues you run into are different than what you may be used to with Windows, but at least the system and its developers aren’t working against you.
And if you don’t like the way one distro does things, you can switch to another one, and there are dozens to choose from. With Windows, of course there is only one distro, and if you don’t like it, too bad.
Mint is the best flavor of linux. I recommend it.
I love my Pop OS
I’m actually allergic to mint. Can anyone suggest a version of Linux that doesn’t have any mint in it.
I would say Ubuntu is the next best distro (if you want stability and easy of use)
Fedora
Opensuse
Heh, flavour
(I like Fedora, but it obviously doesnt taste as good)
I like Fedora
tip
M’lady
(I’m using Bazzite, which is based on Fedora though)
I tried a variety of distros when I made the switch 9 or 10 years ago, Mint is by far my favorite. I’ve been running it continuously for at least the last 8 years.
Yeah, it just works and you never have to use the command line.
Yep. Well unless you want to try some new thing that’s not in the repo, then it’s sudo apt-get for the win.
Zink@programming.dev 1 year ago
Heck yeah. Once in installed Mint on my PC at home, it was only a matter of weeks before I double checked my backed up files and nuked my windows partition.
I still have the windows partition at work that I never use, and I have heard some bad stories about machines getting wiped when IT upgrades people to win11, so it might just have a little accident in its sleep.