• @deft
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    210 months ago

    how easy is linux? i see so many memes now and i wanna switch but I’m not confident in it

      • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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        210 months ago

        Seconding that, made the switch and nothing broke since(almost 2 months now, o) . Can’t say that for windows tho, where not only auto updates meant I had to wait half an hour to use my PC half of the time or disable them and not be up to date with security, but the OS itself was riddled with problems, sometimes just opening Firefox with a few tabs (like 4 or so) would bsod (and I have 16 gigs of ddr4 ram, so it wasn’t a ram problem) not to mention now that I’m on Mint everything is faster, I didn’t have to pay a license key and I know my OS isn’t trying to fight me for my data.

    • TechCodexOP
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      210 months ago

      Start by exploring Linux Mint or ZorinOS… Both are optimized to feel like Windows… You can watch YouTube videos about them to understand what I mean

    • @F04118F@feddit.nl
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      110 months ago

      At the risk of analysis paralysing you… But if you have an Nvidia video card, I would start with Pop!_OS

        • @F04118F@feddit.nl
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          110 months ago

          Thanks for your addition! It is working fine for me, but I may have changed the config a bit from the default, don’t remember everything. I have default tiling now and that works really well.

          • @MJBrune@beehaw.org
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            110 months ago

            One of the things that is a must for me is 1 panel that shows the windows and apps per monitor. I can’t work any other way, I’m not looking to drastically change my workflow more so than Linux alone already is. My quick Google search said that it wasn’t possible on Gnome 44 and I gave up.

            That said, KDE is laggy and unresponsive. It’s also fairly unusable. Everything else besides those 2 is like going back 20 years to desktop environments of the olden days. I just want something modern that works with my workflow.

      • @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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        -110 months ago

        If you have an NVIDIA video card, I would start with buying AMD or Intel instead. Attempting to use NVIDIA with Linux will result in misery.