...and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I'm mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
Lunix all da way
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Me too! Just replaced my eight year old (and bear to crap) Chromebook with a corporate hand-me-down laptop that I ~~stole~~ got when they ordered new laptops! Just played around with both Mint and Ubuntu for a couple weeks and I've seriously loved it.
Retired corporate laptops ftw! I replaced some machines at my house with a pair of still-capable, well-built business-class Dell laptops for ~$80 each (via local classified ad). Running Bazzite on em.
Awesome! Good luck on your journey as well.
I hope you find it a suitable replacement, I haven't used Windows in years thanks to Linux.
My advice, the good documentation on parts of Linux is quite literal it's best not to skim over sections. Sometimes the authors choice of words will infer answers to questions you might have.
A bit of competency in the shell/command line will go a long way, being able to view hardware (lsblk, lspci) mount drives, traverse the filesystem (ls, cp, mv, chmod etc) and a few of the basic commands for example
This should give you the ability to:
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Back up all your important data from a live environment in the event that your distro is completely borked before reformatting
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Gives you solid foundations to learn more in-depth parts of Linux if needed, access to internal documentation (man pages etc) from the shell itself is useful too.
Don't be afraid to dive in, it's hard to break things learning the basics if you're not root.
I am looking forward to getting more comfortable in terminal. At the very least, I know how to navigate around the file system, use SSH, and some other basic stuff. I find it hard to retain this info unless I'm learning it for a specific need/purpose, so I'll probably slowly pick it up in a random order as I have problems to solve.
You should check out the tldr program. It's a community-driven quick reference tool that lists common practical examples for commands.
Ooh, thanks!
One of us! One of us!
gooble gobble.
Welcome aboard!
Linux has it's tradeoffs, you must accept that sometimes, in some cases, you may get somewhat inconvenienced, but in exchange, your computer is truly yours now, with time you learn to deeply appreciate that, also, people who develop desktop, usually want to do it so people who are normal, can use it, I'm not a technical person and have never had a problem I couldn't fix, you just need to keep trying!... or find your way around it, contrary to popular beliefs, a big chunk of the Linux community is eager to help new people, for sure there are people who are elitists and gatekeepers, but are a loud, obnoxious minority.
Enjoy Linux!
Thanks! I think I'm willing to make that tradeoff. I also wouldn't consider myself techy (as in, not a tech professional or anything), but I am pretty confident in my ability to google and figure stuff out.
I've even run into my first issue now: It turns out that Realtek wifi USB devices don't play well with Linux.
but I am pretty confident in my ability to google and figure stuff out
Looks like you have a career in IT lined up!
To save yourself some headache on the wifi front, I recommend - at least for non-Laptops - getting a repeater and hooking your computer up via Ethernet cable. Yes, WiFi does work, but it can be a major PITA.
I might do that in the end, but I've already ordered a different one that is supposed to be more Linux friendly. The other one was falling apart anyway - I had to sort of bend it back together.
I had two different ones for a while and was suffering from occasional network dropouts that would force me to restart networking, and would sometimes take minutes to recover (DHCP discover) - eventually I had enough and bought a repeater + connected via cable. Interestingly enough, the "dropouts" would not allow new connections, but existing connections would remain active mostly. So it was definitely a driver issue.
Well I might be going down that route if this new one doesn't work. My PC isn't in a good spot to connect directly, but a repeater is an alternative I hadn't considered.
Googling is all you need (maybe change the search engine for a more privacy respecting one, like brave search or kagi, but still the same)
Congratulations. One of us, one of us, one of us.
Penguins together strong?
Become untariffable
This cracks me up, why is there a bunch separated from the rest?
Those are the people on the Hannah Montana distro.
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This, but GrapheneOS
I recently discovered that GrapheneOS users can use Curve Pay for mobile NFC payments in the EEA
Welcome to Linux, here's your thigh highs. We expect a post on UnixSocks soon.
Your Estrogen is in the mail.
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My biggest hangup (so far) is modding games.
Nexus is built for Windows. CDPR's RedMod is too.
It's probably not that big a deal. I'm just shit at all this stuff. I'm not a coder. I don't even know what the fuck sudo means. But I have a very loose grasp on using it. With a moderate amount of help from the internet. Usually.
I just game on windows to be honest. For that it's not bad. I do a ton of VR and the Linux support for that is minimal anyway.
Nexus is building a new version of its app, and the new one has Linux support (native app).
It's not yet a full replacement, and at the moment only supports a few select games, but eventually it'll expand to the full catalogue.
Super user do
Dragging mod files into folders is your easiest solution
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Ignore that this is from Lunduke, but you might like this rice.
https://lcarsde.github.io/installation.html
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/make-linux-look-like-star-trek-lcars
Ignore that this is from Lunduke,
who? why?
One of those people who used to make Linux related content and then became an anti woke grifter
Ooh! I was hoping something like this existed. Thank you
Finally a good use of bullying.
Glad you decided to give it a try. It really shines on older hardware and really shows how much bloat windows actually has. I've been using Linux since the 90s, it's incredible how far it's come. Show us your socks. Especially in relation to gaming in the last few years, there's almost no reason to deal with microsoft any longer!
The bloat is real! I really thought this old PC was just chugging along because of the hardware, but it seems perfectly content to run Linux.
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I have mint on two laptops and I want to install it on my desktop but right now I have too much work to do and can not get a couple of days to install it and set it up the way I want. I have a lot of files I need to move first.
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I am going to distro hop and experiment with it a bit more before I make the switch, I haven't thought about things such as my peripherals being incompatible under Linux until I tried it for myself. I couldn't use some of the buttons on my mouse (Logitech G502) to change things such as the DPI/sensitivity, and my headset (Arctis Novo Pro Wireless) also had similar issues, both of which use software that is only made for Windows. :(
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