cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715
Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?
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I’ve messed around with Linux for a long time, but daily driver? It’s only really been the last year or so and I gotta say, it kicks ass. Windows can lick my balls. macOS is definitely better than Windows, but Apple has been also letting the influence of ads and services revenue enshittify their OSes. I also don’t love the tighter controls around app installation.
Since we’re talking about a degradation of freedom around app installs, android is on the same path as macOS in that regard and it’s stupid. Both on an individual basis, and for enterprise. You can’t seriously expect enterprises to use the google play for enterprise system, right? Come on.
Anyway. I’ve been using Bazzite for a while, and I just got a new powerhouse of a desktop thanks to my position at work, and I decided to go cachyOS. It’s a little bit inconvenient not hating a convenient App Store, but I knew that was how it worked and decided I wanted to lean into the Linux experience of using pacman in CLI for app installs. It’s not been hard at all actually.
Oh, and thanks to Steam Deck, I really just got stuck with KDE Plasma for a DE. I like it. It’s a little bit windows-y, but tbh I’m not all that picky.
Zorin is great. I had one nagging hardware issue with an old, strangely important USB device. But after tons of digging, I found some ancient drivers on the Wayback Machine that actually worked. I couldn’t believe it.
Zero complaints now!
I’ve copied and pasted a bunch of stuff into the terminal without really understanding what I’m doing so … yeah going great. I think.
Its fine if you’re not doing stuff that requires windows. My partner is running Mint, and I’ve got a HomeAssistant box, but I can’t ditch Windows completely because I can’t get Wilcom and DesignSpace to run in Wine, and I need those to make my machines work.
been using Linux professionally for years (programmer). recently switched my gaming PC to Mint and haven’t had any problems. everything just works.
caveat: i don’t play any new triple A titles that require anti-cheat.
Every game needs a stupid command argument, things are broken, and everything is incompatible, but its largely been awesome.
I’ve switched from win 10 to mint for an old i9900k and 1080 to run Helldivers 2 and it worked so well I put it on my newest rig to replace it (9800x3d RX 9070xt) with little to no problems. It does take a little while to get things tailored to how you want. The bios clock keeps being off (but OC settings remain) so maybe the battery is dying already. Been putting off replacing it since it’ll require a bit of disassembly.
I then tried Bazzite on the i9900k and ran into a couple problems. Multiple monitors pose issues with the mouse not staying on the game and requires an applet or app to keep it contained (no issues with Mint). HD2 runs the same performance but it stutters every second or two, making it unplayable. I’ll have to see if I can troubleshoot some more or try a different distro.
what applet keeps hd2 mouse contained? mouse drifts to other monitor on windowed fullscreen, game crashes on alt tab in fullscreen. pls answer fast hive lord about to
After Bazzite I switched to Garuda. No regrets. Might be worth a look.
Been on Linux only for a couple years now. My biggest complaint is how terrible the trackpad experience is. The upside is I have a pretty keyboard centric workflow (tiling window manager), so I dont have to use the trackpad too much, but wgeb I do its not a great experience.
Fwiw arch (BTW), with hyprland on a framework 13.
Install touchegg and add it to your startup scripts. It gives you an “apple magic trackpad” like touchpad experience.
Linux is great so far. It’s been a bit of a trick learning the ins and outs, but now it’s getting close to a year I’ve ironed out most of the kinks and have a stable functional computer.
See this is the problem. You shouldn’t have to learn an operating system to have a stable and functional computer.
I chose to use an unstable distro both for more performance and to force some learning. Most of my problems were honestly either software not built to run on Linux, or the fact I didn’t disable my integrated graphics in the BIOS.
Like things could be better, but I think it’s pretty good. Windows would have wiped a significant amount of customisation within a year, and that’s my baseline.
I am somehow managing to crash Firefox/LibreWolf on a daily basis now when using sites that load lots and lots of graphics in one page. I always knew infinite scroll was a BS mechanism.
Bazzite. Fucking love it. Have had to spend some googling and learning and troubleshooting. But it’s incredible how much shit just works. Definitely recommend getting comfortable with terminals, shell scripts, etc. You can do some cool shit.
I love ffmpeg.
I’ve been using Bazzite for months and I love it. It’s different but I’ve been able to figure things out. Zero show stoppers for me and no real problems.
I’ve been thinking about giving fedora atomic sway a spin.
Switched from Window 10 to Linux Mint about 3 weeks ago so I’d have something familiar to work with.
Honesty, so far Mint works just like Windows should have worked. I’m surprised at how much stuff has been made automatic and easy for a lifelong windows user. Some specific games have a performance issues, Alt+Tab to switch apps doesn’t work if you are in a full screen application.
I would encourage anyone on Windows to buy an small drive (I used a 500 GB SSD I got for like 40 bucks) load a Linux distro on it and give it a shot. You probably won’t be back on Windows.
Regarding alt tab, are you on multiple screens or just one?
One screen. It will bring up an application switch widget in the middle of the screen, and I can hold alt and hitting tab to cycle through options, but when I release alt-tab, it does not switch the application.
Is great. No notes.
I switched from Windows 10 to Kubuntu some months ago and it’s been pretty rough mostly. I’ve been having issues with but not limited to: multi-monitor setup, nvidia gpu, network dropping, game/software support, hardware support (headset working poorly, motherboard not reporting any sensors), poor performance in some cases…
Still better than spreading my cheeks and letting Microsoft fuck me in the ass though
I had issues with Kububtu and switched to CachyOS and they’re mostly resolved. My second monitor still only shows 60hz but its not used for games so meh.
