It took my old laptop dying on me for me to finally ask my geeky neighbor to install Mint on another laptop I had around.
It’s been a few hours and Omigod. Why did I waste so much time? It works. It’s easy and intuitive. It makes sense. There’s no bullshit.
I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office, but whatever. The rest feels good and natural.
So please whoever is here because you’re contemplating switching: do it yesterday.

    • Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      5 days ago

      It’s true that stumbling on Lemmy usual la happens after quite some time on Linux, not the other way around.

      What’s great is that OP is gonna be finding a lot of Linux stuff on Lemmy!

      • MaxLemminist@lemmy.ml
        2·
        4 days ago

        I’m also a Lemmy first then Linux example.
        Hard not to get indoctrinated here by all the Linux enthusiasts.
        So thank you all I guess?

      • Guiorgy@lemmy.ml
        1·
        4 days ago

        I was never much of a social person, have barely used Reddit, I just randomly felt trying lemmy to see if it’s any less toxic than Phoronix 😂

    • MarieMarion@literature.cafeOP
      1·
      5 days ago

      Lemmy because of the Reddit API debacle.
      The Linux community because I’m a far-left activist who needs to get away from BigCorpo out of general principle, but I’d been using Windows since 3.0 and it was daunting.

  • GloomyDorje@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 days ago

    When i switched to Mint i had a bit of a learning curve, not all things worked completly out of the box. I’d like to encourage you to not give up on it, problems are solveable. The Linux Mint Forum was a great help for me (still is)

    • MarieMarion@literature.cafeOP
      2·
      5 days ago

      Yes. Well no, not yet. To be One of you, I need to say the Sentence:

      Now let me tell you why your distro of choice is Not The Right One.

      Here. Done. (Phew. I couldn’t list many. I’ve heard of Mint, Fedora, and Pikachu. Even then, Fedora might be a Pokemon, not sure.)

      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 days ago

        If you want a very stable server = debian

        Hybrid server+gaming = openSUSE Tumbleweed

        If you hardcore probably Arch :D

        If your are in ultra instinc you make your own OS :D

        • lost_faith@lemmy.ca
          1·
          5 days ago

          If your are in ultra instinc you make your own OS :D

          One day maybe. I have thought about doing this, but I just want it to work when I only have 4hrs to myself after work. I’d say my distro but it’s prolly the wrong one, hehehe 🤪

      • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        I’m pretty sure Fedora the Pokémon wears a Pikachu in the movie adaptation, so close enough 🤣

  • Ivan Overdrive@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    01·
    4 days ago

    Lots of people are anti AI here, but Claude will tell you how to fix anything Linux. If you ever get an error, just copy and paste it.

    • Sina@beehaw.org
      1·
      4 days ago

      Understanding how things work a little will make using Ai assistance much more reliable. If you have 0 knowledge & you are just pasting terminal commands without comprehending anything even a little bit is not really tenable long term, but I suppose if you plan to reinstall annually, it could be okay, given a mistake doesn’t wipe your drive.