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...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!
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
Ooh! I was hoping something like this existed. Thank you
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
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!
I just updated my Win10 laptop to Debian 13 with Xfce 4.20!
one of us
Me too! Just replaced my eight year old (and beat 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.
Yeah I have a Value Village PC with Windows 10 that will be offered to the penguins pretty soon,
Good call. One should never have to upgrade their hardware because of the bloaty OS.
I'm trying it on my laptop first cause me scard
it's probably going to be fine, but afaik it's slightly more likely to be difficult on a laptop due to custom hardware
Great success
I am surprised it's snappy since pop_os is one of the heavier distros but it's still better than windows 11 I guess lol.
I am actually curious how much the speed changed exactly now are there any experiences like "it used to take 20 minutes to boot on windows" and so on?
I use Linux Mint Cinnamon, which is the main full-featured flavor that basically looks like the win10 desktop at first startup.
It runs like greased lightning compared with Windows on the same machine, or any windows install I've used recently.
That was one of my favorite things about switching to FOSS in general. It is made by people who care about it being good at it's purpose, and probably use it themselves. Compare that to commercial software, where the list of stakeholders in major decisions is a mile long, and the primary stakeholders that everybody wants to please (shareholders) are often not associated in any way with the creation or the use of the program.
Well, the PC is an older one and hadn't been in use in years, so it has HDDs (a small SSD for the OS), was running windows 8 still, and I think has an unusual amount of DDR3 RAM. Maybe 24gb?
It was taking 5-10min to boot (the first boot took 20, and I was worried it was dead). When I was transferring files off of it before formatting everything, it was so slow that I had to leave it on overnight. Basic tasks were hanging. Just imagine your typical end of life, bloated Windows PC that hadn't had a fresh reinstall in a while.
Now, Pop!_OS boots in a matter of seconds, minimal delay in opening apps/moving files/downloading stuff/etc. It could probably be faster, but it feels like it's brand new relative to how it was functioning before.
Is actually kind of sad. Microsoft Windows does have a really stable and performant core. It has some bad decisions made years ago that legacy compatibility holds them back on, but even so itβs amazing it works as well as it does.
But they ruin all that by piling on the BS literally nobody wants but they have decided you must have.