Also, lenix is a meme, same thing with amd anything, do yourself a favor, avoid lenix like the plague, dont listen to those morons on reddit. Believe me, gaming on lenix is a complete joke.

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@bits360wastaken

Ай бұрын

Pin of shame! Try fanboying over something more useful.

@mousebetr

Ай бұрын

I'm more partial to Lanix, myself. Lynix if you need better compatibility with older hardware.

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

Just never go full loonitix then you know you've gone to far.

@danyukhin

Ай бұрын

Lenin

The more people that start using Linux the more games and software will get support for Linux, it just takes time.

@PlazmadawgZA

Ай бұрын

Agreed, also the popularity of the steamdeck has also pushed game devs to make their games linux compatible. Gaming for linux has come a looong way in the last few years.

@Bobbias

Ай бұрын

@@PlazmadawgZA Actually, Steamdeck has kind of worked the opposite way. Because Proton is such a good compatibility layer, developers are no longer trying to support Linux natively. It's getting easier to game on Linux, but that's not because developers are actually supporting Linux, they're just making sure that things work ok in Proton, which is just a souped up WINE.

@nadtz

Ай бұрын

@@PlazmadawgZA Proton makes it easier for devs to not go out of their way to make games Linux compatible out of the box but in the end if games work on Linux I guess it's a wash.

@PlazmadawgZA

Ай бұрын

@@Bobbias Thanks I am aware of this. I just didn't get too technical in my response as I assume most people aren't linux gamers and most of this stuff is greek to the average gamer or user.

@mithranruwodoalvisbeseitri9811

Ай бұрын

I thought it was the reverse, like when microsoft was just made it already tried to strong arm the software market financially, and I dont think they will stop anytime soon, like they just bought minecraft for example which is similar of their past actions and made it an exclusive for microsoft, they will probably pay other developers or their parent companies to try and have them develop software exclusively for them. cause lets be honest, there is virtually no reason companies should just develop for one OS or the ones backed by big companies alone as a standard if they want the biggest financial return.

Really? Linux Mint? That's a great choice

@YouTubdotCub

Ай бұрын

Mint is a great training wheels linux, as is Pop!_OS these days, and both are great for gaming on linux (I'd give Pop!_OS the slight edge on that but honestly it's largely going to be an identical experience)

@ShadoMoosess

Ай бұрын

I've never had luck with Mint, something always seems to go wrong in my experience, and currently I have a Mint install on an old PC sitting in the corner of my room running some servers, that won't let me update. So it's been stuck running the past 2-3 iterations of Mint. This was a fresh mint install at the time, so I didn't add any repositories, etc to break the system. I just had it up and running so I could host servers. I'd say if anyone wants to try Linux for the first time, they shouldn't run these flavors and instead opt for something with better support, that has a large team behind them, with users that are willing to help. a distro that is more stable, like, Fedora for example. I've never had a Fedora installation crap out on me. Or Debian if you're really insistent on using apt instead. Nevertheless, if it's the DE that intrigues someone, they could always install it on top of another distro. You don't have to stick with Cinnamon or Gnome if you don't want to.

@joefriedrichcbus

Ай бұрын

I moved to mint when windows 8 came out. Haven't looked back.

@Ash_18037

Ай бұрын

@@YouTubdotCub I keep hearing people saying Mint, Kubuntu, Pop, Zorin etc are "training wheels" or a "good starting distro that you will want to move beyond'. This is simply wrong. As you can see in this video, the right distro for most people coming from windows is the one that supports most/all of their hardware, required software, and then lets them get on with their job/hobby/leisure activities. If they prioritize a reliable OS that "just works" suggesting they will want to move up to eg Arch, Gentoo or even Fedora is just poor advice. Yes, I know those OS can be reliable, as long as you don't regular updating and being on latest less-tested software that will interrupt your work now and then.

@YouTubdotCub

Ай бұрын

@@ShadoMoosess OpenBSD or Rocky or something like that would be a much more suited-to-purpose distro for a server than Linux Mint, which is made more to be a desktop environment.

7:48 For a oldschool DF player, linux terminal is child's play

Thank you for documenting and explaining your journey

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

It's only really just begun

*chooo chooo** Jump on the train! It is a great train with no ads or corporate bullshit and honestly the seats are pretty comfy at this point.

btw I use arch

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

You're supposed to drive through the arch not use it.

@FumleDK

Ай бұрын

Arch users are like vegans, they never waste an opportunity to tell you that they are. ( BTW, I'm an Arch user myself)

@renatopereira2315

Ай бұрын

@@FumleDK Yeah Arch users can be a pain to deal with. I talk from experience as a veteran Arch user.

@MrDJFlanger

Ай бұрын

Same here😅

"I learned to use harder software" my brother in christ you've been playning dwarf fortress for ages nothing can ever compare

@YouTubdotCub

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

Dwarf fortress is not the insanity it is made out to be. Not like you can bust up your whole os playing it or anything lmao

@Unknown-pb7ki

28 күн бұрын

why are you saying my brother in christ? Do you acknowledge that Jesus is lord?

Windows 10 gave me a full screen ad to upgrade to Windows 11 (which isnt possible, since I've intentionally left TPM disabled), and have since decided to swap over to Linux when Win 10 support ends. I have experience with Linux through servers, but have never committed to it as my desktop experience. I am both excited, and nervous about it, but the only way to know if it will work is to dive in!

@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks

Ай бұрын

Why would you leave the tpm disabled? Security is important, especially encryption which is what the tpm is for.

@kraDiDark

Ай бұрын

Yeah the full screen ad was one of the reasons that kicked me in the ass to get Linux running. I would suggest running Dual boot for a while if you are not sure which distro you are going to run in the end. Otherwise figure out what programs you might have to replace. Otherwise have fun!

@mirror1766

Ай бұрын

@@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks There is plenty of good and safe encryption available without a dependency on a chip that on normally part of, and dies with, the motherboard.

@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks

Ай бұрын

@@mirror1766... That's why you back up the keys... All tpm does is store your keys.

@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks

Ай бұрын

@@mirror1766... You can back up your keys. It's not that difficult, it's a secure way to manage your system. I don't buy any excuses to not use it. It does more then just do drive encryption though. Edit:KZread

The most important thing, when working with Linux, is to put your user data on its own partition. This way you can keep your data between installations if you want to OS hop. You should still backup between versions but to make that easier, you can use rsync. Other tools you should learn Sudo (privilege escalation) Ssh (remote terminal) Screen (terminal extender, allows you to disconnect and reconnect to terminal session) Aptitude (package installer) Nano (text edit) Vim (text edit) Inkscape (graphics) Gimp (graphics) Tar (command line zipping) Synergy (desktop expansion between machines, one mouse and keyboard, many computers and monitors) And you should get a raspberry pi for all your "fuck around and find out" learning. A sacrificial computer that's easy to rebuild and cheap to replace.

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

I think I'm further ahead then you realize but thanks for the tips!~

@coreyfro

Ай бұрын

@@BlindiRL indeeeed. Always over eager to help people join the dork side of the source.

@Darth_Insidious

Ай бұрын

By user data, do you mean just the /home directory?

@bodyguardik

Ай бұрын

small cheap mini-pc on something like celeron is much better than pi to "play with linux server", but overall all you saying is true

@coreyfro

Ай бұрын

@@Darth_Insidious yes, in the case if most Linux distributions. Don't depend on this being uniform across all unixes

I have been using Linux as my daily driver for years now and it's been great. Pain points I can think of that you will likely bump into are printers, games outside of the Steam ecosystem, and occasional audio hiccups, but nothing that can't be overcome with some Google searches

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

I have never actually used a printer. I go to the library once a year to print my lease lol.

@MrAlexmbat

Ай бұрын

Lutris and Winetricks/Proton Tricks will handle outside of steam issues. Audio hiccups are typically resolved by resetting the program or having hardware that's more compatible. Streaming software may be fickle (knowledge from 5+ years ago)

Welcome to my world comrade ! It will be impossible to go back to windows without the feeling of being treated like a child ^^

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

I'd already felt that way since windows 8

@haihappen8306

Ай бұрын

By the gods (the eldritch kind), yes. I was always aggravated at how the windows infantilizes users, basically forcing you to trick your own OS to get stuff to work. I switched to Linux when Vista came around. First tried to dual-boot, but quickly ditched windows completely, as I didn't need windows for anything, games included. Now the only windows machine I work on is my work laptop (11), sadly. I will see if I can move my wife over to linux when she needs a new PC.

Like you i also moved to linux due windows becoming a spyware,and i love mint

I've been on Linux Mint (cinnamon) full time for nearly two years now. I miss very little available on windows and the OS experience is significantly improved to the point that what I do miss isn't much of a sore point. I have W11 on a laptop and it's a miserable experience.

@ker0356

Ай бұрын

cinnamon too

You give me motivation to get around to tearing the band-aid off myself. For all the same reasons I've been understanding my time with Windows is nearly over. It's been a heck of a ride. I've used Windows since 3.11. I find it funny that even though I'm a software dev who spends their days in Linux, on Linux boxes, and deploying to Linux... I haven't brought myself to remove Windows from the my primary PC. Perhaps this year will, finally, be the year of the desktop Linux for me. ((2025 will need to be because I'm not upgrading to Win11 and both copilot and recall can go find the circus))

@Ash_18037

Ай бұрын

Well said, same situation here. It's a band-aid moving across no doubt. There will be pain, but hopefully just short and sharp and then we move on to better world without windows.

I tried Win11 for 15 minutes and then installed Linux Mint :) I'm still on Win10 on main PC but I will never switch to Win11. I hope more and more games will work on Linux.

@YouTubdotCub

Ай бұрын

Bunch of my gamer friends have been switching to Pop!_OS over the last 4 or 5 years, some of them dual-booted between Windows and Pop!_OS, and they have found that anything rated Gold or Platinum on protondb run in Proton better than natively on windows more often than not, better performance across multiple metrics. Silver-rated tends to be en par with windows, Bronze is almost never unplayable but definitely at least slightly worse performance than on windows. Back when Proton started, most games were Bronze or worse, and even as late as 2017/2018 the bulk of games were Bronze or Silver. Nowadays it feels like the VAST majority of games are Silver or Gold, and games get upgraded a category all the time, with more Platinum rated games than ever and Gold games getting upgraded all the time. Highly recommend dual-booting Windows 10 and Pop!_OS to see for yourself on your main PC, and getting rid of Windows 10 when it hits End of Life in October 2025. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised! I'm not saying this as a Pop user, as it's not a distro I run, but the experiences of total newbies to linux who primarily do resource intensive gaming on their PCs being pleasantly surprised that their games run BETTER on Pop than on windows and running benchmarks to make sure their eyes weren't deceiving them tells me you'd probably like it.

oh linux! I use Nobara for ease of use, it's fedora based (so it has plenty of compatibility) and it was made by Glorious Eggroll (the guy who makes the main non-steam fork of proton) he made it specifically as a distro that he can give to his dad who doesn't do computers. It's specifically made to have a welcome page that can help set everything up without any user knowledge.

im on linux for many years already, including gaming. No problems at all, except rare online games with like "easy protection"

@bits360wastaken

Ай бұрын

EasyAntiCheat*

I had the same thoughts of switching to Linux after using windows for almost 25 years. I did that in November last year, jumped into the deep end with Arch (btw). While I had to fix some things here and there it worked pretty well! Especially because of the Arch Wiki, it's great. Hope you have a good time! Also Mint is a good choice, pretty stable and has a windows-like UI.

considering the same move, thanks to Copilot.

@daimarstein

Ай бұрын

you can always test things from a live CD to dip your toes and figure out what you like and dislike with the experience and you can always dual boot if you end up wanting (or needing) to go back stick with the most popular distros (at least in the beginning), my personal recommendations are linux mint if you hate updating and fedora if you want the latest and greatest at a nice pace

Great job! I switched 3 years ago here, and best decision ever. All my game servers run Linux as well now.

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

But can they walk on linux.. running is tiring..

I'd also recommend Mint, its the standard newbie Linux

based. i moved to and stuck with Linux since pandemic, but I had to go back this year because of work needing to use Adobe (only Photoshop and Illustrator works on Linux for now, I needed AE and Premiere) wish i could go back soon, probably reviving an older laptop for Linux + Emacs. Enjoy your journey!

Nice. I've been using Linux at home since the late 90s, and the gaming and support just keeps getting better and better.

Nice to see you get into linux. As an Arch user (I use arch btw) I wish you luck with your journey through getting everything to work, distro hopping and customization and breaking everything bc you thought deleting that or changing that wouldn't have that much of an impact. Welp been there done that. EDIT: I am still dual booting and would recommend it to everyone starting out with linux bc I still run into moments where it is not possible to run software or games under linux and instead of trying for some hours to get it to work it sometimes is just easier to give up and boot up windows EDIT EDIT: Please never install snap it is the worst thing ever created. Flatpaks are also not great. In the worst case you could compile programs yourself but most of them have some other way to install them.

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

if I duel boot I'll just use windows. Windows is gone and not coming back.

@crmbn

Ай бұрын

@@BlindiRL I 100% agree. The only way I managed to acctually switch was by nuking all win installs and only having linux as an option. Otherwise its too easy to run into a bump in the road and just switch back, but of course YMMV

I'd been meaning to dip my toes into Linux for years now but I kept putting it off. This got me to finally download it. (more longdeath walks coming soon™)

I'll never switch to Windows 11. Half of my devices run Linux, the other half will either run Linux or see less and less use as Windows 10 gets less and less support.

Using KDE on my Notebook for a while now. There are so many features which are so much more advanced than on Windows and much more user friendly. Right now only my fear of missing something does hold me back, but a friend of mine need to switch cause his hardware is not supported with Win 11. If his journey goes smooth I will properly join.

Learning terminal for the first time in the 00s felt like going back to Windows 3.1/Win 95/98 days when I was a wee lass learning at my dad's knee how to use DOS for the things you still had to use DOS for, it was so nostalgic for me so I totally get what you're saying about learning terminal being like the good old days (or as good as they ever were lol) on windows. By the time 2010/2011 rolled around, learning terminal began to feel so second nature I was actively seeking out ways to do things in terminal without a GUI just to see how to do it. You wind up feeling like a hacker in no time coming from windows or mac into linux lmao

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

It really does remind me of computing on windows 98/2000 but in a good way.

Well done to you for the switch to Linux, Blind! I’m super happy for you to be the club, and I’m glad that it was a relatively smooth transition outside of a couple hiccups. Hopefully as Windows continues to enshitify more people will continue to make the switch, which will therefore make Linux more usable in the long run because more companies will have reasons to support it (I switched to it after experiencing Windows 8 and I’ve had no regrets. Currently running Manjaro as my daily driver distro).

I'm glad your switch to Linux has been pretty smooth. I switched a couple years or so ago, also hit a couple of issues, but I think it's worth it to really be in control of your PC again. I was especially impressed by Proton on Steam, I still haven't had it fail to run one of my games. And running the games was always what made me hesitate to ditch Windows.

Great to see you switch! I switched about 4 years ago. I can say that Linux Mint is the best choice to get started. I see a lot of new people run into issues with Flatpaks. It's always better to prefer system packages and only use the Flatpak when something isn't available as a system package or you really need the latest version of something.

Welcome to the family !

It was very interesting to see your shrine!

I am super interested in your Linux journey. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride.

Nice work - enjoy the upgrade!

I've been a Linux-head since RedHat was still free. About 1997. Great to have you as our Linux brother. Live long and prosper :)

I used Linux Mint for the last two years, and I'm quite happy. Very happy that I did this switch - and I've not even used my dual-boot windows for about a month... I still might for for certain multiplayer games.

Congratz! Mint's a good place to start and get comfy with the new OS, cause there will be some growing pains. But stay strong!

The Terminal can be a sharp weapon, or a blunt instrument, depending on how it is wielded. It is friend and foe, a demon in a box that does *exactly* what you tell it to, when you take it out of the box to play.

I have been contemplating moving to Linux for similar reasons to yours. I know I should do it sooner than later, but I don't feel ready yet. So it's very interesting to see you, a content creator with a lot of software and a more complex setup than mine do the move. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Instructive and somewhat inspiring. Good luck with your work in the new environment.

Glad to see you finally making the jump.

I like the slightly creepy smile in the preview pic. Other than that I can fully agree. Switching to Linux has gotten relatively easy...

Good call. I have my complete family (6 people from 6 to 55 years) are different flavours of Linux for years now. NO regrets. Mint Cinnamon for the non-tech savvy, Manjaro for the others. Do not forget backups and set up timeshift, and... yeah. Welcome to re-owning your electronic thingies.

its really cool to see how far linux has come and how relatively painless the process is now, i hope more people follow your example cause thats the best path towards linux being 2nd class os like macos instead of being 3rd class and hardly getting any ports

Had a "nice" interaction with the updates and restore point recently. I couldn't update my GPU drivers beacause of the "pending update", which shouldn't even be a thing, since i disabled autoupdates years ago, and after recieving the windows update i tried to update the drivers again and was met with the same error. After that I decided to restore my system via system restore point, which I made beforehand, and it bricked itself in the process, rendering my pc unusable for the next couple of hours, while i was downloading a new win 10 image.

I'm in the same boat, but haven't taken the leap yet. Thanks for the inspiration to give it a go.

Mint is pretty solid. As a user that perpetually changes distros every second or third month. Mint is a daily driver on my main PC at home.

Windows seems to have become the OS equivalent of live-service 'triple-A' games. It has definitely jumped the shark. I moved to linux (Arch linux btw with KDE Plasma DE) a year ago and I'm very pleased with it. I had used Windows since version 3.1.

Yeah I've had a huge fucking pain with Nvidia's drivers on mint. I think the first version of 540 bricked my machine, so you should order an AMD card sooner than later.

when that BIOS screen loaded sideways i felt an overwhelming sense of familiarity. further proof you're wiser than I am lol, my dumb ass kinked his head sideways without thinking about it instead of solving the problem properly lol

I have been thinking about switching to Linux myself. I'm running windows 10 atm. Thank you for this video! Usually here for dwarf fortress goodness.

Thanks for the update!

Congrats on the transition!

Many are making the switch to Linux. Game devs take notice.

Cool news. Switched all our laptops, and the desktop PC in our house to mint 3 or so years ago. Put it on tonnes of devices at this point. Learned a lot over the years, and now I have a home server.

My only screaming is if the data is important, make sure it is not just on that 1 backup drive. Camera recording is fine as capturing the install would need a 2nd computer to record monitor cable, require modifying/installing content into the installer, using a text installer with logging that you replay into a video, or 'fake it' by installing in a VM as a demo. Camera was needed for us to see your monitor dilema. If possible, swapping monitors around so your main one is your first one may make reinstall/reconfig times easier. The extra keyboards usually are just literally extra keyboards with keys that are common but unused keys (F13-F20, again with modifiers, etc). You can then remap those keys to other common keys, macros, or scripts using steps you would use to do that with normal keyboard keys. Pipewire isn't an audio driver but rather a layer to stick between your audio drivers and your programs. It caused so many headaches for me that I avoid it but I also use BSD instead of Linux (not perfect either; main box has DF 0.47.05 as a result). For drivers, use what works best at the time between proprietary vs opensource; as a sidenote, many opensource linux drivers load closed source binary blobs to 'work around' pleasing opensource users; don't know why so few seem to notice that. Liking the terminal? Does that mean we may see some Dwarf Fortress in a raw terminal? If you hadn't done so, its a great time to take notes of all steps to get your system how you want it: programs to install, settings to configure, etc. Everytime you use a terminal to configure those things, you can have your notes be a script that could be reran if necessary for another distro, to rebuild on an always failing update, ... Hope you continue to enjoy your software play and thanks for the great DF videos.

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

df does not run in terminal past 47.05 and I have no real interest in going back.

Glad I'm not the only one. Used various distros on and off and am currently trying out PopOS.

Same, Blind. Recall was the last straw. I have moved to Zorian linux distro. Couldnt be happier

Welcome to the land of the pinguin

The process was pretty simple for me since I save all my stuff on my NAS. Unfortunately I still need a windows machine for work stuff I do at home on occasion but my main machine and my laptops are all running Linux now. I was actually impressed that Linux had no problem with any of my hardware (minus the fingerprint readers on my laptops, but that was expected). It's kind of funny because I work on Linux systems all day but was so used to Windows on my desktop (been using it since 95a) that even though I've played with Linux on the desktop over the years I never made it my daily driver. MS and windows 11 did a good job of fixing that.

Been thinking about this myself… keep going back and forth between “but my games!” And “I’ve been collecting them more than playing them anyway”

@wolfpox

Ай бұрын

What games can you not play in Linux?

@JureRepinc

Ай бұрын

@@wolfpox Those that have nasty rootkit spyware (AKA kernel anti-cheat) built in are problematic.

Windows 8 was the era I started saying goodbye to Microsoft products except where necessary for games and work. Linux support for games is pretty dang good these days though... Was thinking I might do a dual boot on this PC but I still haven't been able to justify adding Windows after a couple years. Kubuntu has been really good to me with some minor GPU driver issues to hammer out. Very much Windows-like. And I 1000% prefer the Unix-based terminal commands and features over DOS.

Very nice. I'm thinking for a long time to move to Linux entirely but the gaming aspect dragged me back. Maybe I'll use a spare HDD/SDD and test the whole setup.

Nice. Currently dual booting Windows 10 and Linux (Arch), but planning on going Linux-only after building a new PC later this year or early next. Gaming on Linux will only get better from here.

Campus computer labs had a mix of Unix and Windows systems mostly on professor's preference. I started looking at Ubuntu around 2008 and completely moved over by 2010 or 2012. I packed up my computer and have been on Android as my main computer for a few years now but I want to get my PC back up and refreshed.

thank you for the video, from someone that is too afraid to switch because of software that needs to run with windows. But also someone that seriously dislikes windows for being very annoying

thanks for making this vid mate, tbh the whole Windows situation has been causing a shadow on my brow for a while now but lacked the confidence to consider Linux seriously

If you really need to, you can use a windows VM. I use endevourOS btw

Hey, I would recommend building a cheap NAS out of old computer parts and use that to store your important data. Drives break, but if you’re running raidz3 or better that’s almost a non-issue

@BlindiRL

Ай бұрын

Already have one. Also already have online back-ups off site.

Nice, I work on one of the other Linux's for my dayjob, I use obs-studio alot, but not with many plugins yet. I recently tried switching to openshot over kdenlive recently, they have different workflows still not sure which I prefer yet. But I also never owned Adobe products. I do still have a Windows computer mostly for my kids to play games on and my very occasional use of Ableton. Also I wouldn't rush away from NVIDIA even though the driver can be a bit of a pain it and intel have always caused me the least issues.

I've been wanting to make the jump to Linux as well. At this point the only thing that holds me back is the weekend gaming with the fellas which includes COD: Warzone. In the same vein I want to get into Resolve now that I've let my Adobe subscription lapse. All that said, respect. I hope it goes well. And I hope I'm in a place to follow soon.

Congratulation and welcome to the operating system of the free people! ;) I also use Linux for the same main reason. I paid for and build my computer. So I want to own it. Running Windows means MS owns your computer and they let you use it how they see fit! Showing ads on the users computer desktop is already so f'ed up. And now they want to make automatic screenshots every few minutes? This is beyond creepy. This is scary! Anyway, besides the feel of owning your computer you also get security and privacy features build in! Always great to hear someone switch to Linux. MS world dominance is very unhealthy but the Linux alternative is good and is getting better and better!

Been using exclusively Linux for about 5 years at this point and have been happier since the switch! Glad you're able to join the ranks!

I am happy to hear that, I had the same feeling and started to dont like windows after Xp. I also moved to Linux(PopOS) 6 months ago and I am very happy with it. I just hate when my OS does things I don't want it to. My expactation from an OS is that I don't want to see it as much as possible and it should run apps.

I wouldn't recommend using flatpaks for softwares that are dependent on other pieces of drivers. Especially if you're using Nvidia. Please, use the version provided by your distro package manager. (in this case, the apt package) I wouldn't recommend using flatpaks of anything. But then again, that's a personal choice. (I run Garuda Linux, for reference)

Good for you buddy :D Ive used Linux for about 8 years and it has been great. I really hope you'll end up liking the experience.

welcome!! it's been fun lately; I've helped a couple friends get ready to make the switch, too. will definitely be interesting to know whether you notice any particular positives or negatives about mint as you continue to use it; I accidentally speedran becoming an Arch user so I'm a little ignorant when it comes to the distros people typically try first. Hope it continues to go well!

i did the same thing. i went with pop os thought and it's been smooth so far

@Darth_Insidious

Ай бұрын

Pop!OS Is a great choice for anyone first dipping their toes into Linux. My only gripe is that their package manager gui has a tendency to crash, but if I install everything through the terminal then I don't have to worry about that.

Mint is always an excellent choice.

I love Mint Linux as well. Great choice and hope it continues to work out.

Thanks Blind! and about time!

Hey I have that keyboard. I'm still on windows (am contemplating the switch every day), but I use lua macros + autohotkey to make my second keyboard do things.

I also moved to Linux Mint from Windows 11 about a month or so ago, very great.

Very interesting video! Bold move and I hope it turns out well! I use linux for all my serious computer stuff, only gaming was done on a Win10 machine... I won't migrate to Win11 either and if any game is not running afterwards... no biggy, there is plenty of alternative games that do. But for me this is easy to say, because my income does not depend on it. I am very interested in the future development... linux has lots of issues for sure, but I prefer those over the ones I have with M$-software!

As an Arch Linux user, I am glad to see people trying any form of Linux. Great job!

I wonder how much Linux Ubuntu has improved over the years, I'd still like to theme the OS with The Matrix and I liked how in one version of Ubuntu that had the cube that you could use to change to a different desktop and it was 3D and had 6 sides to it, I thought that was freakin cool, not sure if that version has been updated or not, I would totally use Ubuntu if that was still a thing, of course I'd still would like to be able to use discord and play my games on steam, battle net, ubisoft, EA and Epic. Not sure if that's asking too much of Linux but that would basically be my requirement if I'm going to switch OSs.

The undead unwanted adventure of Rick and morty

Try not to fall into the "distro hopping" hole, is a vice! But, if you ever have the needs to change distro, try Manjaro sometime.

Nice, enjoy Linux. You'll probably run into more speed bumps but they're all learning experiences. I run Unraid for my server, Dual boot Windows/Linux on my desktop, and Mac for work. They've all got their benefits and downsides but as long as it works for your needs that's all that matters. Cheers!

I agree. Personally i have been using Windows OS since Windows XP up until Windows 10. The OS began to be more "invasive" and user unfriendly around the time Windows 8 rolled out. Thats when my pc's startet to have kind of like a life on their own. I couldnt decide wether i want to make/have updates for example up to the point where my pc would shut itself down to install an update. I tried to stall the updates but after a couple of weeks they would be downloaded anyway and stored in my ram cache until Windows decided to restart even though i was using the computer. Thats when i realized that i wasnt 100% in control of my "personal" computer anymore. I think A.I. will further hurt the freedom of the user as well.

With the timing I was thinking you'd switch to mac 💀. Thank god you're switching to mint.

Have you tried swapping ports for your monitors so the system defaults to the one you want?

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Yeah I did that after the install was done.

Thanks for making this.

> Sometimes it's fun to learn something new I'm 100% behind this. It can suck to repeatedly be _forced_ to relearn your core workflows, but trying new things and being happier (hopefully) with the tools you're using is a good thing. And hopefully once the learning curve is behind you it'll be a little less annoying overall 😂

Best of luck! Moving away from Windows takes effort. I'm sure you'll be happier in the long run, just give it time. Microsoft has crossed a line when they turned their software from OS to ad platform with forced AI on top, confident in their almost monopoly position. Good thing there are alternatives, though they come with their own pitfalls and rough edges. If I can offer some advice, try to stay away of the million-choices rabbit-hole that unix in general entails. Try things one at a time and figure out a way to move/update/switch with minimal risk to your data (backups, use a partition for home that can be reused without formatting, use live distros to see what else is there in linux land). In the end, we all win when there is more choice. Exercising that choice, as you have done, keeps it alive. Thank you!

welcome to the fold. Mint Cinnamon is what I use on my main comp, really great compatibility and simplicity.

I switched to Mint from Windows and it was great! Haven't looked back. I really cant stand using Win anymore. There definitely is some issues you have to get used to but if you're up for configuring stuff yourself its really awesome to use Linux. It can be frustrating sometimes, but IMO its miles better than being forced to use your OS in the way the manufacturer decides is best for you

I'm looking forward to switching to Linux aswell. My only concern is that AutoDesk products are not supported and I need that to work from home. I wonder if anyone here has experience running AutoCAD on Linux.

Good job -- one of the things I'm challenging myself to do as well this year -- I will, inevitably and quite soon, have some final interaction with Windows and realize what a spyware-riddled piece of shit it has RAPIDLY become in the last decade and change. Hope it works out for you!