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Lin...ux?
Yep, I just switched yesterday.
Literally switched two days ago. Trying mint for now
Haha, me too. I tried opensuse first but switched to mint.
Mint gang rise up!
Switched just a couple of months ago.
I switched to mint in November, almost everything just works (I mainly use my desktop for gaming). And everything that doesn't, works after visiting the mint forum or is just a minor inconvenience.
I dunno; ive had trouble trying to internally rewhatsit outgoing broadcast UDP packets to multicast UDP (or even TCP and then back on the other side) packets for use with some 25 year old windows software. So clearly Linux sucks.
Manjaro is amazing, but might have a little steep learning curve should you use it for something very advanced. Also, no .deb's and .rpm's for you, but AUR is arguably even more based (don't rely on it too much though, troubleshooting issues with AUR-sourced apps is an advanced task indeed!)
Other than that, an insanely snappy (thanks, Arch!), beautiful (thank you, presets for various DEs!), almost bleeding-edge and very novice-friendly distribution.
PopOS uses the same core stuff as mint and is good at graphics drivers, does em automatically.
If you want to keep your computer, yeah.
Might be rough, but, like... Windows7 isnt supported anymore.
Linux Linux?
Okay so KDE was okay 5-10 years ago. Ultimately crawled back to Windoze. What's in vogue in 2024?
KDE 6 just dropped. Cinnamon is up there as well. And if you think iOS is too cluttered and functional, give Gnome a try.
Can't endorse Gnome enough. I feel like something about it is anti ADHD for me. It optimizes screen size usage. And, the division of tasks into workspaces is glorious. It honestly bothers me a little that it helps me be productive despite myself.
I am glad someone likes it.
It frustrates me to no end.
Okay, you sold it to me (given for free) Should try to approach Gnome again. Currently a KDE user.
I use paperwm, and I think its the greatest user interface ever. Actually makes my odyssey super ultrawide useful
I'm a big fan of Pop OS personally.
There is plenty of choices, those are just some of the major ones.
No else one is advocating for GNOME desktops so I will. I've tried Mint, Ubuntu, Zorin, Pop!, and a few others. Personally I love my Fedora machine. It's super easy to use, play all my games on it save a couple due to anti-cheat reasons. GNOME is developed kinda sorta in line with Fedora and is very extensible because of the community plugins, it's much better than it used to be. To me it looks really clean, makes sense when navigating, and stays out of the way. Red Hat exists, so if you need support you can probably even rely on some RHEL documentation.
You might have some trouble if you use multiple displays with different resolutions, depending on your use case, but my 4k/1080p setup is really solid.