Funny thing is, I have and it was a terrible experience getting the thing to work, but I’m slowly getting over the other side hopefully with a decent distro.
Can I ask what you found terrible? Ive been getting into some FOSS contributions (for my own weird bugs) this year and I’d like to start addressing some of the issues people come across when they try out Linux
The Mint installer crashed multiple times and for multiple reasons when installing.
One time was for selecting the video codecs along with some other settings I can’t remember.
Then it also crashed because I backed out of the installation once for being unsure what to do, so the window crashed on me, and I ended up having to rename files on my thumb drive to get it to work again (???).
I also had to go digging to find that Safe Boot needs to be disabled, because it’s common knowledge to everyone except newcomers. It would’ve been nice if the installer had mentioned it at some point.
All in all, it was a total of like 4-5 failed attempts on my laptop. Not to mention the times I couldn’t get it to install on my tower for other reasons.
And on top of that, my wifi keeps disconnecting every time the computer wakes up, and I need to do a full restart or I can’t use the internet.
I also can’t get the Figma desktop version to work right because it doesn’t load the fonts correctly, and it needs a hacky workaround that I don’t have the time and patience for right now. I can’t imagine what else I need to fiddle with just to get on par with my Windows setup, so Linux has been set aside for now.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Funny thing is, I have and it was a terrible experience getting the thing to work, but I’m slowly getting over the other side hopefully with a decent distro.
Squiddork@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Can I ask what you found terrible? Ive been getting into some FOSS contributions (for my own weird bugs) this year and I’d like to start addressing some of the issues people come across when they try out Linux
Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The Mint installer crashed multiple times and for multiple reasons when installing.
One time was for selecting the video codecs along with some other settings I can’t remember.
Then it also crashed because I backed out of the installation once for being unsure what to do, so the window crashed on me, and I ended up having to rename files on my thumb drive to get it to work again (???).
I also had to go digging to find that Safe Boot needs to be disabled, because it’s common knowledge to everyone except newcomers. It would’ve been nice if the installer had mentioned it at some point.
All in all, it was a total of like 4-5 failed attempts on my laptop. Not to mention the times I couldn’t get it to install on my tower for other reasons.
And on top of that, my wifi keeps disconnecting every time the computer wakes up, and I need to do a full restart or I can’t use the internet.
I also can’t get the Figma desktop version to work right because it doesn’t load the fonts correctly, and it needs a hacky workaround that I don’t have the time and patience for right now. I can’t imagine what else I need to fiddle with just to get on par with my Windows setup, so Linux has been set aside for now.