Frankie ✅1d ago

I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.

Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.

Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.

Show threadAngie
@Some_Emo_Chick I left Mint as I had an AMD graphics card, and the kernel they used at the time didn't support it. So now I use Cinnamon on Ubuntu.
Apr 11 at 4:13pmWeb
Show threadNazo1d ago

@angela @Some_Emo_Chick Er, even if the kernel didn't have amdgpu built in, you could just install the dkms module... There is no "doesn't support AMD GPUs" in Linux. That's not a thing.

Mainline Ubuntu itself (and its immediate derivatives like Xubuntu/Kubuntu) is... not ideal these days... Corporations aren't going, shall we say, ideal directions lately... (That's not a x distro is better than y distro statement, that's a "you'll be much more at risk of them pulling something bad" statement.)

Show threadAngie1d ago
@nazokiyoubinbou @Some_Emo_Chick Okay. I'd thought that the AMD kernel driver wasn't available until the 6 releases, and at the time, Mint was still on a 5 release. And, yeah I don't use snap, only debs or flatpak.
Show threadNazo1d ago
@angela @Some_Emo_Chick As far as I know the dkms has been available for a really long time. However, amdgpu is now stock in the kernel with no dkms needed and that's newer.