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I cannot recommend switching to Linux enough! Linux mint is a solid, stable OS with a thriving community and ample support for newcomers.
There are alternatives to nearly everything, yes YOU CAN absolutely live without microsoft or google tracking your every move, stealing your data, selling it and using that profit to fund unethical bullshit. Take back control, you will never regret it.
Someone broke into my house on Tuesday and installed Linux Mint on my previously windows ThinkPad so I'm setting that up with all my productivity software today.
Fun fact I thought that my sound card was just gradually dying because I lost onboard speaker output 5 years ago, and lost any BT audio output last week, but it all came back after Mint was installed so I guess it was just windows being windows this whole time. I honestly just accepted that she would never speak again from her onboard speakers.
Now that's my kind of mischief.
I installed pop os yesterday after repeatedly saying I hate Microsoft all week. Bye windows 11!
I used to be an avid Linux user a couple of years back -- but had to move to macos due to work. I however soon have the freedom to move back soon. Just out of cursiosity, do you know why people are recommending Mint over Ubuntu now?
I have no horse in the race, i'm just curious what changed as when i used Linux last time you would be recommended Ubuntu 95% of the time.
Ubuntu is run by Canonical and people have mixed opinions about them. It mostly stems from their insistence on using snaps to run apps when other versions are supposedly faster (flatpack).
I think that's the biggest issue otherwise Ubuntu is fine and I use it on all my VMs.
Ah okay, thanks for the answer.
There's more. When you get away from Windows, you want to get away from ads. But Ubuntu is a commercial package that will remind you gently on occasion of this and include an ad for its own paid plan.
Mint is Ubuntu with the icky proprietary Canonical stuff removed and with an extra layer of polish.
Mint Cinnamon even has a windows-like desktop/taskbar-like setup out of the box. I don’t know of any reason I might recommend somebody replace windows with Ubuntu rather than Mint.
AutoHotKey on Wayland is my entry barrier. Not a fan of X11
How hard is it to distro hop on your daily driver without losing your userdata/homefolder
Put it on a separate partition and you can easily keep it for each new install. I did that for quite a while.
syncthing is pretty great
Ventoy.net
Ventoy is entirely unrelated to preserving user data. It's just a tool that lets you drag-and-drop multiple ISOs onto a flash drive without having to image it every time.
Mint for general use.
Nobara or PopOS for gaming.
Edit - you know what's dumb about silent down votes? If you have an opinion, share it.