NightEyes DaySpringI'm getting more serious about switching to Linux; last night I set my desktop up to dual boot with Linux Mint.
southie wusky@nighteyes to speak from several of my own experiences and experiences of my friends, if linux mint gives you issues at some point, consider something fedora-based and KDE before writing linux off like i had for so long. absolute night and day experience, I kept running into problems on mint nobody had answers for
@southpaw1312 I am pretty tech savy when he comes to troubleshooting, but I will keep this in mind. I have been running two Raspberry Pis for projects I just haven't had time to figure out, but I have kept them current with updates. I am not a complete newbie but this is moving beyond dabbling toward actually making it my daily driver. I still have things I need to figure out.
@nighteyes same here but, while this doesn't happen for everybody, mint kept giving me reoccurring problems that other distros don't and it's so much easier not to have to keep poking at them, heh
moved my entire desk setup into a different room the other day and I use a logitech Z5300 5.1 surround sound system which always stresses me out. on windows, there would always be some dark magic to get the thing outputting right and restarting. mint would forget I have an audio device at all and require me to reinstall the driver every time I booted. but nobara linux with KDE, there was absolutely zero hassle, it just worked
@southpaw1312 @nighteyes my experiences aside though, I think a good thing for new users to remember is that distro picks don't matter as much as DE picks or picking between wayland/X11 since you can more or less tune any distro based on needs. the Desktop Environment is an enormous difference to how a distro looks, feels and functions over the hood, and Wayland/X11 differences are a huge deal to gamers and folks doing graphics/video work and such. I stream games on twitch and most of what I do cannot be done on X11 period, but some people swear by it for their needs
@southpaw1312 I don't stream, so this isn't a need of mine. The fact Linux even can play games now is pretty amazing to me considering how it wasn't supported at all years ago. My concerns are office software, photo editing, and software development tools. I also plan to keep the dual boot going until I have resolved my needs.
I'm pretty resourceful also when I have to be. I'll customize as I have to.
@nighteyes something i wish I'd been told forever ago as well is that windows gets really territorial with GRUB and considers other OSs a "problem to fix" but using rEFInd circumvents this. it's a custom boot manager, and it does require playing around in the EFI a bit, but im pretty dumb and haven't managed to brick a computer with it yet by following instructions