Switched to Mint recently. So far it’s been smoother than I expected, but still had some crazy rough patches. Luckily, helping me through this junk seems to be one of the things AI excels at. I’m set up mostly how I want to be and it’s been mostly working well enough so far. Mostly.
End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending
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eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
vga@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Mint’s popularity is unfortunate because it (the last time I checked) defaults to X11, which gives you a desktop built on technology from 1984.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’d be more worried about the lack of HDR support. Shame they killed off the Plasma edition. To anyone considering using Mint you can install Plasma on top of it with ease and get a modern desktop that supports HDR. If you don’t have an HDR monitor then Cinnamon is great.
obvs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s actually comments like this which will scare people the hell away from trying Linux.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Might want to have some people a hit more coherent on which version of Linux so they don’t get frustrated. Some people are jumping to distros that I’ve never heard of and getting annoyed it’s not windows. Like yea no kidding Justin Bieber OS isn’t getting updates. And your 3k series Nvidia isn’t working. Switch to Hanna Montana DE like the rest of us.
paerrin@midwest.social 10 months ago
Switched to CachyOS a couple months ago and haven’t looked back. Everything works right out the box including NVIDIA cards. Recommended it to a coworker to check out and he switched from Windows a month ago.
aivoton@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Been on linux for almost half a year now. Don’t miss a single bit of windows, thanks to steam proton. Also thanks to microsoft for pushing me over.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Same here. I do not miss all the shit windows did. Things like:
- starting drivers manually to use graphics tablet
- finding drivers for hardware that work
- random driver crashes for various pieces of hardware I have
- BSODs
- rummaging around settings, configs and regedit to get something to work a bit better
- disabling things you don’t want through regedit or some hidden config
- uninstallable bloatware
- ads everywhere
- super key + type in the program you want to open not working
- messing around with tons of files for old games to work
- going through shady sites to get software
- not having a software center for all your downloads
- needing to install weird programs for sftp support
ironically half these things are what people think is the linux ux. Seriously, windows is just terrible, clunky, buggy and full of things you need to be an advanced user to fix.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Mints file explorer when moving large files does leave some meat on the bone for me.
killerscene@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
what distro do you use? im looking into moving from windows, but currently use apple devices to sync my music to my phone so im on hold for now
aivoton@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I tried Mint initially, but it had some issues with Wayland and some other small issues, so I ended up settling on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed after a friend recommended it.
paerrin@midwest.social 10 months ago
Been on CachyOS for a couple months now. If you want to go Arch, I highly recommend it. No issues with NVIDIA drivers or any of my other hardware. The only thing I need Windows for anymore is Solidworks.
tempest@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
As much as people complain about electron (some valid, some not) Linux has benefited quite a bit to the cross platform availability of local applications.
sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
I’m a very recent convert. I downloaded mint a couple months ago after seeing that my entire steam library was rated as highly compatible on protondb. At first I planned to dual boot but I didn’t have any reason at all to use windows and finally just took the plunge and made Mint my daily, and sole, driver
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I also went cold turkey to fedora and once I solved my two main problems: disabling secureboot and formatting my steam library to be a linux filesystem, I have a better ux overall. Now I’m looking to move to endeavourOS since fedora is too fast with its updates which breaks nvidia drivers sometimes. (Which just means I restart while the pc is booting and select an earlier version of the OS)
sommerset@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Jeez. Pathetic losers. On Linux for 15 years never thought of going back.
And u know what? It was harder back in the days nowadays all software is in the browser anyways so what are u even missing.Aux@feddit.uk 10 months ago
It’s funny, you’re using Linux for 15 years, but you’re still 15 years old…
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I tried ubuntu 15 years ago since it was the easiest. It was hell. Now linux is a more functional OS than windows is that asks the user to do even less in order to have everything working.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ubuntu 12.04 was nice for desktop users. It just didn’t do anything good for gaming at the time.
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 months ago
This weekend I want to make a pointnto finally begin the transition to Linux…
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
You will be pleasantly surprised, I hope!
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I want mint to be my distro.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Alright, I need to move my main desktop to linux. Help me decide which distribution. Note that I already run a desktop-less server on Debian, a raspi on their flavor of deb and have a laptop I rarely use on fedora.
My main desktop PC is on windows and I wanna switch but im not sure which distro to switch to. The thing needs to be gaming ready for 2024 hardware. Debian is too slow to update for such a use case, I dont jive with Ubuntu philosophy, Arch is… im just not that kind of guy… so Im leaning on Fedora but I kinda dont like that it has 100 updates every time I boot it up. Is there any in between? Stable and quick with updates, but not when updates can crash the thing?
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I have fedora. It is fast with updates and it just works. You aren’t pestered constantly with populs to install the updates and then your pc will randomly force restart to do the updates, you are in control. You just get a small popup that there are updates and you can decide what to install and when.
The only Issue I have is sometimes the updates break nvidia drivers. Thankfully linux keeps spare images of the working OS ready. What it means in practise when your games run like ass, you restart and do another restart while the restart is restarting and select an earlier working verison. Then you just use that for a few days. EndeavourOS should be fedora without those problems and iirc the nvidia driver distribution system is in the appstore by default (saves you from running like 3 commands).
Bear in mind if you do not disable secureboot, for every big kernel installed thing you need to manually sign keys which involves running a console command and restarting. I just disabled secureboot.
LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Peppermint is exactly what you want
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I know you said you’re not an Arch kinda guy…but I highly recommend Garuda.
Takes away most of the rough parts of running Arch, and comes in more flavours than you can shake a stick at. The forums are highly active, and Devs/admins/mods are very quick to respond to question/issue posts.
bampop@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is it necessary though? Microsoft have already been campaigning pretty hard to get people to switch to Linux. Telling people their perfectly good PCs won’t work anymore because the operating system is expiring, and they can’t even “upgrade” to Windows 11 is a pretty powerful message.
cortex7979@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How can I play cracked the last of us on my popOS sytsem?
Matty_r@programming.dev 10 months ago
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Lutris should handle that. Its requires some tinkering as it works differently.
cortex7979@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It seems it’s just a platform that I can run games on, and I need to find a cracked version of the game by myself, right? Do I need to look for a Linux-specific cracked version? Sorry for the dumb questions.
Ravenfreak@discuss.online 10 months ago
Honestly I don’t mind 11. It’s miles better than 10 ever was IMO. However with that being said, Linux is better. I have to dual boot Windows 11 on my computer because unfortunately there’s no way I can use my Elgato Capture Device on a Linux machine.
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I downvoted you for not minding Windows 11 🐵
BigBenis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m going to be migrating to Linux and using Mint. I’m just paranoid about doing something wrong and accidentally walking into a security vulnerability. So I want to set aside time to properly learn things and understand what I’m doing but I’m just busy AF these days…
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
This is a very valid and smart concern to have. But the scary commands all start with “sudo”, which gives everything you type in root access. Other than that linux is very secure and idiot proof as long as you read what the commands do.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Basically don’t run random sudo(superuser do, root access) commands you find on the internet without reading what the command does from docs or asking ai.
Leaving windows makes you more secure.
smokeymcpott@feddit.org 10 months ago
Agreed.
Had the same problem with the Steam library on a Windows filesystem and some annoyances with NTFS drives.
Other than that, pretty easy overall (you have to tinker around with some games and wineversions though)
misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Take it slow and do it the right way, don’t let Lemmy pressure you if you’re making slow but steady progress. It’s a learning curve for sure
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I have four pieces of advice
- btrfs file system for easy backup and recovery
- Encrypt your drive
- use an ad blocker everywhere
- use virus total to scan anything you might be wary of, and if you really feel like you need an AV, they do exist for Linux.
I usually prefer Debian based systems, but when I finally ditched windows 3 weeks ago, I switched to Manjaro, and I’m loving it. You got this!
MITM0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What’s wrong with EXT4 ?
tomjuggler@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you are worried about disk space don’t use backup on btrfs though it fills up yr drive I never encrypt my drive but maybe you should Manjaro is great though!
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Microsoft Access and Publisher, the Adobe suite, VR. That’s just the tip of the iceberg of why I can’t completely abandon Windows, yet. I do have a handful of older PCs running Mint though, and I’ll be switching over more. But not all of them.
k4ro@lemm.ee 10 months ago
For VR, lvra.gitlab.io is a pretty good resource for the state of VR support on Linux currently. Check their supported hardware table.
plaguesandbacon@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Ok, I really need to know what you’re using Access for in 2025
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 months ago
Old nonprofit, old files, continuously maintained for about 30 years now. Tiny staff, not many resources to work on migrating the files. It’s just not a missional priority.
tech234a@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Publisher is being discontinued soon and will be removed from Microsoft 365 installs
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 10 months ago
I’ve never used 365. I use a 2019 purchased version. I refuse to pay subscriptions. But my job has a lot of graphics that were created and are still updated in publisher. I’m sure I can find an alternative, but recreating hundreds of files will be terrible, and it will likely all fall on me. And that’s only like 5% of my job.
Psythik@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How can I convince the GF to switch? She only plays The Sims and the occasional hentai game; her Skylake i5 and 1050ti are more than adequate for those tasks. Yet she refuses to switch; won’t even let me install LTSC to buy some time.
I think she just wants an excuse to buy a new laptop. She’s the kind of person who replaces her shower curtain every six months, rather than do the sane thing and simply wash it. I’ll never understand such a wasteful mentality.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
My gf is on win 11 and doesn’t uses it mainly for very light gaming and work. I offered it to her once and she doesn’t care.
Her windows is already having fun problems people think only linux has like her not being able to pay except using edge and other small annoyances. I just say “weird, if it works flawless on linux why doesn’t it on windows” every once in a while.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There is nothing wrong if someone doesn’t want to switch to a new OS. That being said, isn’t her buying a new computer better? Old one becomes unused then.
Putting lightweight linux on an unused old computer and seeing it become better is like the standard procedure. You could even make a custom rice for her.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You know what? Just because of this I am going to proprietary BLOB even harder
Railcar8095@lemm.ee 10 months ago
*nvidia drivers in Linux: “why not both?”
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There are a vast plethora of reasons to hate Nvidia
Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 10 months ago
My laptop is about 7 years old now, I think I will do this actually, thanks for the tip comrade
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I feel like eveyone should reccomend Fedora KDE edition, its close enough to Windows for new users and modern enough to not push people away.
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I have KDE on my laptop and gnome on my desktop. Beyond basic custiomization like icons, background, loading screen animation and some hot corners and shortcuts I don’t feel the need to touch it and it just works.
I don’t want to reccomend fedora since you need to add your own nvidia drivers. I’m looking to move to bazzite or endevourOS myself. Bazzite seems to be super easy to install and “gaming os” just seems to mean “its linux but steam and nvidia repo is preinstalled”
paerrin@midwest.social 10 months ago
Check out CachyOS as well.
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Most people who just have a PC don’t have a DGPU, for those who do the built in open source driver is good enough for 99% of use cases. People heavily exaggerate how much you need the proprietary drivers and you can always install them later if you really want (its not needed in the vast majority of cases to get it booting).
JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
People have their gripes over the “big corporation” side of this but I also daily drive fedora KDE and I love it. My only complaint is 2 things.
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Wireless shuts off after long periods of sleep. Suck if I’m torrenting my Linux isos.
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Very rarely it’ll freeze up and I need to hard restart.
Both of which could be a me issue. But besides that it’s a beautiful, easily and highly customizable system. Highly reccomend as well.
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I also have issue number 2 with fedora KDE (kinoite). It’s happened like 3 times in the past several months
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lay@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
As a 15 years old pc user who likes to play games with a 15 years old nvidia graphics card. The only thing that’s preventing me from fully migrating to linux is the fact that nvidia doesn’t support my gpu anymore, so no proprietary driver, unless, I use a 6 years old kernel version.
The only choice I have for modren distros is the nouveau drivers, which lacks behind alot specially when it comes to gaming. I now have a dual boot setup running Popos and windows, but still I can’t be fully free from Windows, having to reboot every time I feel like playing something. I hope in the near future I get less broke to buy a new conputer or maybe the new nvk drivers will supports my gpu which is unlikely.Jankatarch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dualbooting is great. Whole idea of linux is “you can tinker in any way you see fit” and putting multiple OS on a single computer is one example.
Fact that you did this at 15 is impressive btw. Willing to mess around with computers is a real skill. Half the CS students in my college had hard time setting up a fedora VM by themselves for UNIX class.
You are already ahead of actual college students in this field lol. You learnt more about computers thanks to old GPU.
ziggurat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which graphics card?
lay@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Quadro 2000M, it’s a miracle that it support dx12 games.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I am trying Linux but it’s not going well. I still might stick with it but it’s more because of Windows getting worse than Linux being better. Right now it’s come down to an evaluation of which things I want to not be able to do anymore because Linux doesn’t support everything I currently do or the alternative is ass or will require an inordinate amount of research to get set back up.
applemao@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Using mint or ?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I’ve used both Mint and Bazzite. Bazzite I’m attempting as a daily driver now because it has all the gaming shit baked in already and I don’t know wtf I’m doing with that so it gave me a head start. However, Freecad runs like absolute dog shit on it, as well as every other system I’ve tried it on, so I need to keep windows around for Fusion360, I also can’t figure out how to program my G602 from it even though according to the docs I found Solaar supports it. I’m almost certain my headset won’t work on it. When I did my taxes it wouldn’t open PDFs from my network share because the PDF program doesn’t understand SMB. It already lost my Secure boot key once and I had to reinstall the OS to fix that even after turning Secure Boot off. I still need to figure out the best way to run VMs on it and I have numerous other peripherals that I haven’t even tried yet because it’s honestly exhausting to keep running into problems when I’m already stressed out from work and every other fucking thing going on in my life… I was able to get my media downloading stuff all running in Mint with only one issue that took me a couple hours due to gpodder not just having a fucking setting for the download directory and the documentation couldn’t just SAY how to export the path you want but over all that was pretty painless.
dufkm@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I used to have the same issue, and booted up a Windows VM for anything I couldn’t get working on Linux, like syncing my Polar watch. Now I’m down to only using the VM when doing a firmware update of my Gardena robotic lawn mower, which is like once every second year.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Ive been seriously looking into making the switch. After some reading I decided Mint would be the easiest transition and downloaded the ISO to try it out with a USB boot. Im sure its a fluke, but since I have dual monitors the display was messed up and whenever I tried to fix it the entire GUI went away on both monitors and wouldn’t recover. I had to force power off the machine and ive been hesitant since then to make the actual switch. Id hate to brick my machine right off the bat, just trying to swap display sources.
bedbeard@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Dabbled with Linux over the years but have finally made the jump to using it as my primary OS. I tried a bunch of distros and settled on the elegant simplicity of Mint. Every game has worked just… fine.
It feels genuinely refreshing to know nothing will change without my consent, I know I will not login one day to find a surprise cortana/copilot/clippy icon in the taskbar or an ad for Avowed waiting for me. I can’t believe that is even considered a ‘pro’, but here we are.
Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Zorin OS is the distro for windows refugees. Nothing else even comes close.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Tried using Alma on my rig at home (since I’m using it on my servers), and I’m already going to be looking for a new distro. Went back to it after a week or so not having the energy to deal with it and apps like Firefox and steam wouldn’t launch.
Need to find a decent OS to run in its place so I can stop booting to Win10
diykeyboards@lemmy.world 10 months ago
With no Adobe CC on Linux, I’m stuck on W10 for the foreseeable future. Otherwise I’d have already switched.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Download a new OS // Download the operating system you want to install. Search for Linux distributions for beginners to get some suggestions.
I feel like it’s better to actually list/suggest a few beginner distros than to tell people to look it up.
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
the copilot nonsense really irked me, but it was then they had the gumption to force this absurd recall bullshit on everyone–that’s when i said i’m done, no more windows, no more M$
it’s obviously a “feature” they sold to senior executive board members so that middle managers could spy on their cubicle drones, but to have the gumption to try and convince the world that this was something we wanted? get fucked microsoft
LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Peppermint is always left out. That is the perfect on for just working, stable and easy to move to from windows. It’s also lightweight and fast.