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I did it finally, deleted win10 and installed Linux Mint (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is just to share my experience with everyone, especially the people still undecided.

I was planning the switch for months, and finally had a couple hours undisturbed from the wife and the kids :)

It was a slightly rocky start, as my USB wifi receiver did not have native drivers, but with wired internet and the official Mint tutorial the rest of the transition was super smooth.

The OS install went flawlessly and within an hour I had all the basic programs, browser and utilities up and running. I love that I just download the app from the dedicated place, no pointless web surfing for the latest versions.

I backed up my steam folder (with the rest of my files of course), so after installing the steam client and some quick synchronization I had my installed games library back in minutes. I did some testing and everything works great. As I own a steam deck I already had some experience with games not running natively on Linux, but a saw many great tutorials for beginners. I cant wait to test out some more games!

Edit: thank you for all the positivity and great feedback! I know Lemmy users love Linux and I have to admit I feel a little bit more included :D

Who knows, maybe I will start warching Star Trek next...

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Welcome to the club! You might need to enable proton in the steam settings, I think it's under compatibility?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Welcome brother.

Yea I switched from Windows to Fedora and aside from issues with music production, I have been happy with the switch. Its a weight off my mind knowing i dont have to worry about Windows stealing my data anymore.

I'm probably going to be switching to Ubuntu or something Ubuntu based since it seems it will be a bit easier to work with for making music. Not that Fedora hasnt been great in general but i think my specific needs like having yabridge for Windows vsts is making me consider switching.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m proud of you. Linux Mint was my first daily-driver distro and it’s still one I’d recommend to newcomers. I hope you have a great time with it!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good times! Thanks for sharing your experience!

Having a Linux PC and a SteamDeck, as well, I've been quite pleased with the various ways they compliment - streaming, install from peer, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Welcome to the world of Linux gaming (minus your Deck, of course)! Hope you have fun.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Welcome to the club! I did the same thing earlier this year, although I ended up moving from Mint to openSUSE Tumbleweed after a couple weeks due to needing support for some bleeding edge hardware.

Thanks to Steam / Proton it’s been relatively painless!

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