Mastodawn

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.

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Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦1d ago

@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.

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Nazo

@blotosmetek @Some_Emo_Chick Using stuff through Wine can be a pain if you have to, for example, open external files.

Which, uh, is kind of Notepad++'s thing.

(My biggest complaint isn't so much that you're using Z:\ to access stuff by a full path in most configurations, but that awful dialog it uses to do so.)

I've found alternatives for most things these days, but there are just a handful of very specialized tools I rarely have to use (things like game modding tools are never made for *nix sadly — I sure wish they were) and that file open/save dialog in WINE is the absolute worst. Clearly a total afterthought where they didn't think people would use it very often...

Anyway, whenever a native option will do it's always preferable. WINE is always a stopgap for tools.