This feels like google when google was new. I’ve been using the summarizer more and reading the articles I send it to understand how it works. It definitely has its use cases
Welcome to the better side! Lots of good stuff in here. Pick what you want and go from there. I transitioned to mint and put windows in a VM (virtualbox) as my “crutch”. The on thing I haven’t see is use an app called timeshift. It’s a auto backup tool. It’s saved me a few times when I tried something that in hind sight wasn’t a good idea. It let me roll the machine back to a pre-screw up state.
The other good part of this is that it let me try more things because I had a safety net.
I called support, they said no. Asked for a one time exception, still no. The key to my knowledge was only used once on the laptop when I bought it new.
There could be a bit of a caveat here. I when I purchased my laptop it had windows 10 installed. When I installed Mint, I could not reuse that key in a VM because it was “different hardware”. The license, could not be transferred under any circumstance. I had also purchased the upgrade to Pro through the windows store. That’s also lost.
I seldom run windows, even in the VM, but it still leaves one a bit bitter.
Is it really that the truck shouldn’t exist, or that people shouldn’t drive them as an everyday vehicle? I mean they have a purpose, and it’s not getting beer and chips from the grocery store.
I’m good with the disapproval of the people that suck, but I feel like it’s getting directed incorrectly.
Thank you for this. I'll definately check out Fedora's KDE spin. I have used Kubuntu in the past, but it was back a bit and I got attached to Linux Mint.
A lot of negatives seem to come up around Oracle and Canonical being involved with SUSE and Ubuntu, but probably isn't a huge deal in the greater picture.
Thank you for calling this out in advance. I likely would have encountered this as I try to take the approach of research, then do.
This is the first time I've ever posted for Linux help/or guidance. Searching forums has historically lead me to an answer close enough to resolve my not-so unique issue.
I think this might be it. I need to figure out where I want to learn more (there's lots of community support out there) and then just start having at it. I'm not limited by my current choice over a different distro in reality, though it may be easier to use something with less built-in once I know where I'm going. Or, I could get good at removing the extra I don't use, but depending on how much I try to customize away from their standard, that could get "entertaining".
Thanks, I'll give this a try with Mint, and I'll bet if I experiment in a VM first, I'll enjoy life a lot more when tying to do so to my core install. I don't know why I never really thought about putting a different DE on Mint, but it seems obvious once mentioned. It might be the easiest way to get a fresh feel in a baby-steps approach.
Very good point! I made an edit to attempt to better answer, but in reality, I don't think I know exactly what I want. I've seen a lot of distros labeled as beginner-level, but I think that primarily means that there's more capability around UI available to support configuration and package management. Am I limiting myself and what I can learn by staying where I am? Maybe I'm just in decision paralysis because I already could do ANYTHING what with I've got, I just need to figure out what I want to do.
This article sucked me in. What a great read