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I finally made the switch (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Image is a meme with the caption: "friendship ended with Windows, now Linux is my best friend". Image shows two men shaking hands. One man's face is the Linux penguin. There are two icons below of the Windows logo that are crossed out.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

1st Linux? congrat. Whats your partition layout?

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    [–] 47 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US

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    • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wouldn't say I was friends with Windows. It's more like escaping an abusive relationship IMO.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I was its friend, but it wasn't my friend

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "Would you like to activate Co-Pilot for text entry?!"

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    • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    welcome to the club

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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I've been gaming on windows and had my laptop running linux for 3 years now but I've recently moved my PC to the TV for a more console-like experience. I realized that I almost exclusively play games with a controller anyway.

    To that end I switched to Bazzite. Has been working pretty much flawlessly! Even with an Nvidia GPU.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is the way!

    I professionally maintain Linux kernel and custom drivers for embedded applications. I fell in love with Aurora on my first run and chosen Bazzite for my brand new Nvidia gaming PC. This will also be my office/web browsing/dev machine when not gaming.

    Why? I am tired of managing / sysadmining Linux OS and don’t want to bring the job to my free time (although it looks like my MoBo could use a kernel patch for supporting fan speeds controller hee hee). Bazzite and siblings are the first distros I stumbled upon that flawlessly supported GSync and nvidia graphics out of the box without changing a single option. The defaults are sane, customization is easy. The whole general idea around how these distros are redesigned solve many many pain points that many uses are yet to experience with standard / "legacy" ones. I am more hyped about them than I was when I first discovered NixOS.

    Atomic distros like this IMHO should be the default choice now for new Linux gamers. Period.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Tbh as an end user Bazzite was so nice and easy to install, especially since the website makes you configure the iso for what you're gonna use it on. It was a very no-bullshit way of getting linux on a PC.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Exactly! They even took care to provide you with convenience scripts for further setup with very detailed description right after you open the terminal.

    Enabling TPM based disk decryption, secureboot, upgrading everything etc etc is waiting for you just one command away starting with ujust

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    • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Welcome and I am sorry.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is my favourite meme format of all time

    Welcome to the team

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    • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Upgraded my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Linux Mint last week. I use Arch btw on all my stuff, but that's no beginner's distro. He's very pleased - basically used it for browsing and some light office work, has hardly noticed the difference. One more person off Windows forever.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    You're gonna love it! What distro did you go with?

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    Went with Mint. Seemed user friendly for someone new and is great so far.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (11 children)

    Yes the Mint trial version is free for 3 months, then you have to create a Linux account and signup on their website to purchase activation key for the full upgrade to unlock changing themes and recieving updates unless you're okay with occasional popup reminders every 2-minutes that your Linux copy has not been activated. /s lol

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I know this is a joke. I know that. But I keep thinking of switching to Mint, and now there's going to be a part of my brain saying: "wait, there was some reason not to do that... I don't remember what, but it sounded pretty bad..."

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Holy fuck. I am someone with Win 10 and was thinking about trying Linux Mint and then your post made me say WTF, should I investigate something else?

    I’m glad the /s was added because it seemed wrong, but then I was second guessing. Absolutely hilarious though! Got me to laugh after.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just so you know, the Arch free trial is 6 months

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    • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I'm finally back on Linux after a while away. I went with pop os just to have the Nvidia drivers pre-installed. I used Mint back in grad school and liked it.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Nice! I switched my desktop from win11 to popos this weekend. So far so good, but all I've done is play some games (guild wars 2, binding of Isaac) and some quick tests (camera, HDMI to the TV, music)

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Welcome!

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    I changed to Linux a few months ago. I’m using Linux Mint and gaming has been pretty easy, no major problems whatsoever. I had some struggles regarding audio with recording and playing guitar. At first I had the urge to distrohop but now I just use my pc daily without even thinking about the OS.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah I made the switch and finally moved my daily driver of to kubuntu and it's been surprisingly painless. Only thing I've really struggled with is finding a music player I like.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    yeah it's weird cause the music player thing was also a hang up for me too. I liked cmus cause it was simple but some of the things in it annoyed me. I liked Audcacious or whatever its' called cause I could install old winamp skins on it.

    Eventually though I just ended up making my own TUI that has all the features I personally want. This seems to be a theme for me and linux. I always find things that have features I like but their separate apps so then I just combine all those features into something I build myself.

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    • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    yesss join us

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I envy the people who live a life that enables them to just ditch Windows like that.

    One day...

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I switched like 25 years ago. For a long time I had a Windows partition for booting up games, until Microsoft stopped accepting my old licenses. Luckily I really didn't care at that point.

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    dual boot or single boot? and is this on your main device?

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    My pleasure to meet you πŸ˜‡β€οΈ

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