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About two weeks ago, I posted my frustrations with Linux, and how it seemed unstable and breaks too easily. At the time, that had been my experience every time I tried Linux over the last 20 years.

But I made an effort to persist, tried some other distros, and found my happy place!

Thank you to the people who sent me on the path of "atomic" distros, and mentioning the likes of Bazzite, Bluefin, and Aurora (All from the Universal Blue group).

The last two weeks have been pure Linux joy on my daily-driver (Framework laptop), with only a few problem-solving expeditions.

I was looking for stability, and got it!

As a Windows user since the 90s, it's such a breath of fresh air to use an OS that's clean and designed to serve me (and not the corporation in charge!).

And I've also replaced windows on the minipc hooked up to our family room TV, and will also replace Windows that I've got on a lesser used desktop.

It's exciting to see just how far Linux has come, and even though I'll likely need to learn some terminal commands, I don't feel it's necessary for most people to even get into that.

The GUI in both KDE and Gnome already offer more than Windows. And I'll never have to see those goddamn pop-ups and banners about Office 365, OneDrive, or Xbox, at least not outside a VM!)

Freeeeeedom!

Thanks again!

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Love to read this, I'm exactly on the same journey! Was using Mint until a few days ago, and now I'm on Aurora. There is a bit of a learning curve due to the atomic factor (some apps aren't in Discover), but overall I'm happy with the stability.

Linux is truly wonderful and I look forward to learning more and seeing it grow. Fuck Microsoft, I'm done with their crap.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Yes! As much as I wanted to love Mint and Ubuntu, they just didn't work well for me. Aurora has been amazing.

I am trying to stay with Flatpak apps (for convenience and probably stability, too), but I feel pretty safe installing apps outside of Discover, if needed. Fortunately, most of the stuff I use is already supported as a Flatpak, so it hasn't been a big shock.

I feel like if people started on Linux first, moving to Windows would seem like a massive PITA and a huge backwards! I'll be moving my wife to Bluefin in the near future. She's unbelievably hopeless with computers, but I honestly think it would be easier for her to use Gnome on Bluefin than Windows!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I agree with you, lol. The other day I tried windows 11 at a store, and it was a pain. The learning curve was bigger from windows 10 -> 11 than from windows 10 -> KDE.

I'm curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she's hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm curious about your choice of Gnome for your wife, though. If she's hopeless with computers, why give her a less (imho) intuitive DE to play with?

It's like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.

Any software she already uses would be available as a flatpak, so even updating is easier vs windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

It's like using a chromebook, and the less there is to click on, the better.

Hmm, you may be onto something here.

I think I'll test drive it and consider the same for my wife. She has a Mac, and she says she prefers Windows (clearly she hasn't used it in nearly a decade), and this might be an option for her if I can just put all the stuff she uses on the bottom docker.

Thanks for the tip, and best of luck in your Linux journey! 🐧

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

And to add to that, even with vanilla Gnome, you have the option to do what you like via extensions. If you want it to look like a Mac or Windows UI, you can!

My wife doesn't care, as long as it works. If I can set up favorites/shortcuts to the stuff she needs access to, she's golden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

I'm doing the opposite journey and let me tell you that so far Mint is leas stable feeling for me. I may go back to Aurora soon lol