That's what I like the most about it is that it's mostly familiar. I think it's an excellent OS to bridge users leaving Windows.
Years ago I experimented by dual booting pop_OS! and also Ubuntu. But they always ran so poorly for me, despite having great hardware at the time (i7-7700k and GTX 1080). It was just super frustrating so I abandoned it.
Last year as part of my preparation and research to get off Windows, I rolled VMs of Zorin OS and Linux Mint. Zorin was good overall, but Linux Mint just felt better to me. There's so much information available online for Mint, and over time as I get comfortable with the Linux ecosystem, I probably won't be using internet search terms like "install error XYZ someprogramhere on Linux Mint". 😀
Good to know! Somewhere in this thread I mentioned that I heard AMD typically works better, so it gave me an excuse to also upgrade my video card and pick up an RX 7900 XTX. Lesson learned though! But I can't complain too much as I got a big uplift along with a massive improvement in VRAM - 10 GB to 24 GB.
I installed my RTX 3080 into my home theater PC where my spouse and I will game on from time to time when we want a couch TV game on PC. We recently set up PS VR2 on that PC, and with the 3080, the games run so great.
Thank you! I only wish I discovered all this back when I was a teenager and had much more free time! I could have been a wizard like all these other nerds posting here!
Ah well, I'm never late or early, as I understand the lore. Picard or Dumbledore said that, it's true.
Holy crap I had no idea about this! Thank you so much! I remember as I was prepping my switch last year, I was browisng through the MakeMKV forums and reading all about the methods people were employing to get it on Linux. Having it in a Flatpak just makes it all so much easier. I'll definitely get this set up today!
Thank you for the recommendations! I'm trying out Clementine as I heard about it and heard good things. It's mostly great, but coming from iTunes for Windows I have some more learning to do. Will definitely check out Lollypop as I'm not committed to Clementine yet (mostly because I haven't finished getting my library all set up on my PC yet).
MusicBrainz I do use with my Jellyfin server - although, that Jellyfin server is running on a different Windows 10 PC and NOT in docker lol. I have a lot to learn still
I'm working on learning all the terminology, which I'll figure out over time as I immerse myself.
Things that catch my attention are distro hopping. As a hopefully former Windows user, the idea of being able to switch your OS to another distro just baffles me. Without having any understanding of this, I would imagine it's possible switching from a Debian to a different Debian distro. But if I switched from an entirely new "framework" (no idea what to call original Linux distros), such as Fedora to Debian or something, that baffles me. I don't expect to distro hop but who knows!
And then I learned you can switch things out like KDE, Gnome, and even learned that Gnome is not pronounced like the traditional word, but like "Guh-Nome" as a play on the acronym "GNU". LOL
I'm very much a novice with this system. In the past I tried to roll Pop_OS! and also Ubuntu, but they were so glitchy and didn't work great for me. After having my Steam Deck and seeing just how stable Linux is, I felt much more confident going all in on Linux Mint (appreciating Steam Deck is Arch).
Anyway, the point of my rambling is unknown. If you made it this far, I'm proud of you.
Appreciate the advice. I'll be looking into something like that for sure to have some kind of on-prem storage solution. NAS might be the best way to go so I'll be looking into that this year as I get more comfortable.
Edit: I realise I said USB drive in my post lol. I meant I'm using a large external hard drive for all my media rather than thumb drives! :) My external HDD is a "USB drive" I guess, it's just a big one.
Always great advice. I set up Time Shift to take daily and weekly snapshots. Is that all I need or is there a "backup" thing I need to engage.
My history of this in Windows was System Restore, but that was always hit or miss for me back in the Windows XP days. Although I was a teen so I probably didn't know fully well what I was doing.
Oh that’s so awesome, I had no idea about this! I jotted this down and will definitely try it out tomorrow. Things I take for granted and know so well in Photoshop, I can’t even figure out for the life of me how to do in GIMP. It’s practice what I need, and this package sounds great to help me ease into it again. Thank you!
Happy to post this! I wish you good luck with your switch!
My approach was of course to backup all my personal files to a large backup drive. I exported as many as configurations for my programs as I could - like for Handbrake and FreeTube as an example. I backed up those configs so that on my Linux OS I could just import them and have all my programs configured the way I wanted. Before I pulled the plug on my windows, I also wrote down every program I used and saved it into a simple list, so that I can hunt for alternatives.
That approach I think was great for me since I spent a lot of time planning and carefully backing everything up.
It’s been very smooth for me with minor hiccups when I first cutover to Linux Mint, but I’m damn happy with how well things have gone.
Take your time to methodically prepare and I’m sure you’ll do well when you’re ready to commit.
I felt like such an old dude when I made a list of all the programs I used on Windows so that I could begin looking for replacements on Linux lol. Some of the ones that I still have to get setup are things like MakeMKV, as I love backing up all my purchased physical movies.
Candidly there was no need for me to change my hardware out. But if I was going all in, I figured I'd go all in. My 12700k and RTX 3080 were working flawlessly on Windows, but I always heard AMD generally works much better. New OS, new hardware, new me.
You may be my savior because I plan on playing some comp this weekend and don't want crashes.
Do you just set the game compatibility to force Steam compatibility and then Proton Experimental? Did you get rid of any of the launch options that I saw all over the Steam forums and Proton DB (e.g., steamdeck=1 ) ?
Seriously glad to hear that. It just sounded like the best way to go into this. It was very scary at first because I encountered a few hiccups that I had to do a lot of research to figure it out, but so far I've been great.
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That's what I like the most about it is that it's mostly familiar. I think it's an excellent OS to bridge users leaving Windows.
Years ago I experimented by dual booting pop_OS! and also Ubuntu. But they always ran so poorly for me, despite having great hardware at the time (i7-7700k and GTX 1080). It was just super frustrating so I abandoned it.
Last year as part of my preparation and research to get off Windows, I rolled VMs of Zorin OS and Linux Mint. Zorin was good overall, but Linux Mint just felt better to me. There's so much information available online for Mint, and over time as I get comfortable with the Linux ecosystem, I probably won't be using internet search terms like "install error XYZ someprogramhere on Linux Mint". 😀