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ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks agoGood on you my friend.
I know it's not easy, but make the effort and you'll be rewarded in the end.
Incidentally, if you miss the Windows UI, Linux Mint probably was a better choice for you: it's basically Ubuntu with a Windows-like desktop.
The classic Windows desktop experience is one of the rare things Microsoft got right imho.
Maybe in Windows 7 and 10, but 8 and 11 were abysmal in that regard. Meanwhile KDE and other Linux DEs, many of them providing *“the classic Windows desktop experience”*™ just keep improving. To the point that they deliver said experience better than Windows ever could.
drzoidberg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I went with Ubuntu cause name recognition, and I’ve tried it in the past lol. Basically half assed the entire thing.
I’ll check out mint though. Ubuntu feels too much like a Mac OS. Loving how much I’ve had to use terminal, and my 12 and 10 year olds watching in amazement as I look like I’m doing something really complex, but just installing gnome tweaks lol.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
No you didn't. If you're new to this, you did your best and went with the most well-know thing you don't know much about yet.
Ubuntu is fine. And I'm sure you've already put a few hours into configuring it at this point, so don't waste the partition. I'm just pointing out - and possibly for others reading this thread - that if you're used to Windows and you like the Windows UI paradigm, Cinnamon (the desktop environment in Mint) might be for you.
You can probably install Cinnamon as a secondary desktop environment in Ubuntu too, in fact, if you want to give it a go. If you install another desktop environment / window manager in Linux, don't worry, you don't lose anything: you're simply presented with an option to choose the one you want in the greeter (login screen).
drzoidberg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I actually went ahead and did a fresh install of windows on my 1 SSD, and a fresh install of cinnamon on my other SSD. Really the biggest pain was not losing the screw when taking out the windows drive so Linux was solely installed on 1 drive.
You guys were right, cinnamon is way more my speed. A few quirks that I’m looking up ways to fix, like I have 3 monitors, but 1 is in portrait, and if I try to line it up, it drags down the main monitor, instead of the portrait monitor, and the mouse is misaligned to what I can see on the screen. Outside of that, I’ll probably be on Linux full time within a month or 2.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Nice!