I finally got my wife to switch. She is on fedora KDE and keeps saying “Everything just works, when I think ‘I would like to do X’ there’s just a button to do X”
In like 2 weeks she’s gone from thinking I was precious about finding windows horrible to being shocked at how hostile it is to users.
seriously. i had so normalized the user-hostility of windoze that my first week of testing out ubuntu to do my normal workflow was a complete mindblow. surfing, email, videos, voice/video/text chat.
very “why have i been putting up with this for so long?”
i have tried to tell others and i get the same kind of “yeah ok, but like none of your little problems are a deal breaker.”
as though frustration isn’t cumulative.
This. I tried Mint and thought, a little different, and some task specific software is a PITA to get running, but I don’t mind this, it’s neat, and then I had to boot back into Windows for something I couldn’t work around, and oh boy did that few hours suck.
Something that blew her mind was that she just accepted programs stealing focus. Like that wasn’t something the windows manager deliberately implemented and refused to give her control over.
One of the first things she did was set up policies for software in plasma so the things she doesn’t want to steal focus just can’t.
Ok but I had a non functioning Ubuntu machine for like 3 weeks because I got on to the most recent one and that shit sucks
for ubuntu, since probably ~2022, i’ve only ever used the LTS releases and never had even a hint of a problem installing every update as soon as it is pushed. i setup a multi-account jellyfin+servarr, a 24 TB DAS RAID, tested a thoroughly absurd quad display including a projector, did some absurd QGIS spatial analysis, ran OBS and had zero issues with voice/video chat live and recorded, including through web interfaces. i even monkeyed around in the grub settings like a total amateur to screw around with different kernels and never created a problem i couldn’t immediately back out of.
sorry you had issues, but ubuntu LTS is my default recommend for someone interested in exploring a mint alternative for primarily productivity and email/surf/video usage.
I couldn’t run any games and I couldn’t even get a bootable USB drive to work. Nobara works great but it was a pain to get there
The best time to ditch proprietary software is years ago. The next best time is today.
5 years ago? Real commies switched to linux when you had to bicycle to the library to search for and print out documentation when your setup process broke.
My first Linux experience was installing Debian on a 486 without a CDROM drive or home internet access, with a whole lot of floppies and internet-connected school computers and printouts of HOWTOs.
Well, I wasn’t around back then. And when I was a kid, I just trusted my dad to be household sysadmin and handle/decide on anything technology related.
(I like the implied “real commies use Linux” thing here, though. That’s actually why I decided to try it out, even got distro recommendations from some comrades, and, well, I don’t like it, but I like Windows even less.)
Well, I wasn’t around back then
No excuses
I’ve been hoping that someone in Linux kernel development tries to submit AI-generated code, because Linus’ angry response would undoubtedly be legendary.
My old laptop is a surface pro with a crapped-out battery that got progressively slower and slower until one day just decided to never boot again. I recently flashed it with Ubuntu and the kernel for surface laptops that allows for the touchscreen. Runs as good as new.
Battery is still shot, so I only use it as a media center to cast old video games to my TV, but I was thinking of scrapping it completely, and now I have a pretty good tablet to stream stuff.
Similar to why I switched my laptop. It wouldn’t react to any input for sometimes up to 5 minutes. I thought it was just broken beyond repair. Put on MINT to test it, now I can finally use the old mill again!
ok but seriously though
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Mint because I’m basic
Nothing wrong with Mint at all. It’s a very practical choice. It’s my go-to recommendation for people new to Linux.
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Cinnamon, again because it’s familiar and I’m still new to this lol
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I’ve been using ubuntu as my daily driver since 2015. It’s so much more user friendly than windows.
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Hell yeag! Fuck Microsoft!
