It took my old laptop dying on me for me to finally ask my geeky neighbor to install Mint on another laptop I had around.
It’s been a few hours and Omigod. Why did I waste so much time? It works. It’s easy and intuitive. It makes sense. There’s no bullshit.
I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office, but whatever. The rest feels good and natural.
So please whoever is here because you’re contemplating switching: do it yesterday.
One of us! One of us!
Yes. Well no, not yet. To be One of you, I need to say the Sentence:
Now let me tell you why your distro of choice is Not The Right One.
Here. Done. (Phew. I couldn’t list many. I’ve heard of Mint, Fedora, and Pikachu. Even then, Fedora might be a Pokemon, not sure.)
If you want a very stable server = debian
Hybrid server+gaming = openSUSE Tumbleweed
If you hardcore probably Arch :D
If your are in ultra instinc you make your own OS :D
If you want all of the above: Nixos
If your are in ultra instinc you make your own OS :D
One day maybe. I have thought about doing this, but I just want it to work when I only have 4hrs to myself after work. I’d say my distro but it’s prolly the wrong one, hehehe 🤪
I’m pretty sure Fedora the Pokémon wears a Pikachu in the movie adaptation, so close enough 🤣
I’m curious. Since you are new to Linux, how did you stumble upon Lemmy and this community? :)
Lemmy because of the Reddit API debacle.
The Linux community because I’m a far-left activist who needs to get away from BigCorpo out of general principle, but I’d been using Windows since 3.0 and it was daunting.It’s true that stumbling on Lemmy usual la happens after quite some time on Linux, not the other way around.
What’s great is that OP is gonna be finding a lot of Linux stuff on Lemmy!
I’m also a Lemmy first then Linux example.
Hard not to get indoctrinated here by all the Linux enthusiasts.
So thank you all I guess?I was never much of a social person, have barely used Reddit, I just randomly felt trying lemmy to see if it’s any less toxic than Phoronix 😂
Awwwwww yeah! TOGETHER MONKEY STRONG!!
TOGETHER MONKEY STRONG
I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office
Antidote Connector for LibreOffice – Integrate Antidote writing assistance software with LibreOffice.
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99349Nice, thank you!
congrats on the move 🥰
I had an old laptop that I didn’t swap over yet just because I had a few things set up and didn’t feel like moving it. It then harassed me to move to Windows 11. Also, when I tried to remote desktop, it was like, you gotta pay me for professional edition.
I’ve paid for Windows so many damned times, so I was like screw it and put Mint on it and donated to it as well.
When i switched to Mint i had a bit of a learning curve, not all things worked completly out of the box. I’d like to encourage you to not give up on it, problems are solveable. The Linux Mint Forum was a great help for me (still is)
Also something new people don’t realize is that Mint is based on Ubuntu which is based on Debian. If you can’t solve your issue by searching for mint you can usually find a solution meant for Ubuntu or Debian that will work.
Yes, though slight caveats: Mint has 2 branches, 1 based on Ubuntu, as you said, but the other one based on Debian skipping Ubuntu actually, since there are a lot of things they are dissatisfied with Ubuntu, and one among them are snaps, so if you see anything regarding snaps when searching Ubuntu threads, disregard them completely.
Mint Cinnamon is the tits.
consult https://distrowatch.com/ if your interested in what different distros might have to offer.
When I feel it’s time to spread my wings. I’m still stuck on Libre Office freezing whenever I ctr-tab between windows. Baby steps, unfortunately.
Try OnlyOffice (the appimage). It’s more compatible than LibreOffice for MS formats. Alternatively, consider downloding the LibreOfficeFresh appimage, which is the latest version (Linux Mint’s is 2 years old). When you download an .AppImage file, you right click it, Properties, and you mark it as executable. Then, run it. Always download appimages from the developer’s source site, not from third parties.
AppImage may be up-to-date now, but it has no self update mechanism, so a Flatpak is a better choice IMO
I personally can’t stand flatpaks, they’re too large to update its libs every few days. On a 4 MB/sec line that I’m, it’s not a good option.
I mean, nobody’s forcing you to update them every day, and you can always schedule it off hours.
I mean, nobody’s forcing you to update them every day, and you can always schedule it off hours.
Also, you might like to check out AppImageLauncher to install app images as apps that appear in your distros launcher
One day you’ll use Arch, btw
Welcome to the bright side :D
Congrats, that’s almost exactly how I felt when I switched a year or two ago. I did a bit of distro hopping after a few weeks, and quickly resettled on Bazzite, but it was a universal experience of stuff just working better without any bullshit I didn’t add myself.
enjoy. it can be frustrating until you get the hang of it, but once you do there’s no going back.
It took my old laptop dying on me.
same here and it’s lead to me having a job for the last 24 years – i would have been a factory worker like my brother, cousins and father if it weren’t for my computer dying on me.
Mine didn’t die, but it’s Ryzen gen 1 which is not supported by Windows 11 so Cachy it is.
Welcome and other happy words.
Another reason to switch: lower blood pressure.
Welcome to the family, mint was a good choice. 👍
