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CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 month agoObligatory “I was a Windows user for decades until a couple months ago but Microsoft’s enshittification drove me to Linux and I have no regrets”
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Do you by chance have a link to what to install for a non tech user without linux knowledge?
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
www.linuxmint.com is an excellent place to start. If you have bleeding edge hardware there are better options though, as Linux Mint prioritizes stability over newer packages and drivers. Not a bad thing, just not the OS if your hardware is so new it needs a very new set of packages or kernel to work properly.
I eventually landed on get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/ which has been very good to me over the last couple months.
There are instructions on the sites for how to use Linux from a USB drive, so you don’t even have to install them or overwrite your current OS to give them a whirl.
ItsComplicated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Thanks! My laptop is from 2020. Decent but not top of the line by today’s standard. I hope to be the newest Linux convert!
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Oh you should be good then. When I fully converted, I was using an Intel Atom Acer Aspire One netbook. The thing could barely handle XP. When I switched to Linux Mint (then, eventually a now extinct lightweight distro), the system was blazingly fast by compare. I could even run my Windows-specific work tools better than in Windows.
Linux is great for old and low spec systems.