I’ve been almost-ready to ditch Windows for years. Now’s the time.

My new neighbor is an old-school nerd. He hosts install parties at our local leftist third space.
He’s going to help me switch to… not sure yet. Probably Mint. I can’t wait. It feels as good as never giving a cent to Amazon, Uber, and streaming services.

Yay.

  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Awesome to hear!

    +1 for Linux Mint, it’s what I recommend to 99% of newbies. It’s simple, stable, and friendly.

    It’s my #1 “just works” distro

  • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Yo, so first of all, congrats on being able to ditch Windows! Second of all, I got hype-convinced to make the switch a few days ago and I have LOVED it. Moving from Windows to Mint (at least so far) was a breeze. There’s a tiny bit more thought overhead that goes into fixing things sometimes, but if I’m really honest about that, I had a lot of that with Windows, too, I just have decades of fixing Windows experience.

    • MarieMarion@literature.cafeOP
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      2 months ago

      Sometimes I look at my life and I feel jealous of myself. Tbh I deliberately moved here (the boonies, and a leftist / alt-culture hotspot of grassroot community living), and it has its cons, but… Next week a wool felter is taking me foraging wild plants to teach me basket weaving, then I’m teaching her the basics of fermenting food (for booze, taste, or preservation), while my 10yo kid is 500km away for her country-wide robotics competition. I’m happily trapped in a caricature.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I know you’re getting a million suggestions and to be clear- nothing is wrong with Mint, but I recommend Fedora Kinoite as a first distro if you’re coming from Windows. KDE is going to be more familiar and the way the backend is designed makes it basically impossible to meaningfully break.

      • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Definitely Bazzite, I also love Zorin but IMO that’s more an “Install on your dad’s laptop” OS than something for someone who knows how to install an OS.

        • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
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          4 days ago

          Awww. I’ve been using Linux on and off for decades, and zorin is my fav. It just works. Easy to use, hard to break. I’m at a point in my life where sitting up until 3am to fix my computer is just not appealing anymore. I just want my shit to work

          • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
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            4 days ago

            Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

            It’s great we have so many good options these days.

            • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
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              4 days ago

              That’s both a bonus and a drawback. Same with the fediverse. There’s so much choice, but that often scares people off. Either way, I love FOSS.