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I'm switching on Saturday. (literature.cafe)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I tried ~10 distros and then did a prolonged test of about 2 months for each of the 2 distros that were the closest to being perfect out of the box

Oh wow, that's some serious dedication. Have you ever written out your experience?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    No, I don't believe it's of any worth, as experiences will vary depending on user preferences and hardware. What would be the value of content like that?

    But yeah, I was adamant about switching. I knew I would ditch Windows. I forced it down on my self to such a degree that I had to learn how to work (while working) without the tools I used for ~20 years like Adobe for example. I freaking love Inkscape and gimp is the most unintuitive piece of software on my PC.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Even if it's subjective and reliant on the used hardware, if we had enough of these reports, they would become very valuable as patterns would inevitably show up.

    But, I'm afraid we're past the point in which you can reliably and vividly recollect the whole experience 😅.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    There are already gazillions of reports scattered around both open and closed platforms.

    But you can't easily search for them with proper filters, they are almost useless.

    What we truly need is a platform that enables this. And it needs to be federated, so every willing distro can host their own but share them to those instances interested in aggregating all distros.

    Fedora and Ubuntu have their own, but Distro Watch aggregates both so that anyone wanting to switch can easily compare.

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