Just made the switch to Linux as a lifetime Windows user.
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Glad to hear you're on Linux, living a more sovereign life and having an easy time with it. Mint does indeed work very well for me too. I put Mint XFCE on a ~2015 laptop that Windows was bloating down to dysfunctional. Now it works reasonably well.
You'll hear other people say Linux works well until it doesn't. Well so does Windows. It has many issues too that people tend to not mention. Don't get discouraged by those people. Most of the time Linux is totally fine for normal users, it's people trying to do abnormal things that then causes issues.
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Welcome to the club
I did the same thing last summer and also switched to Mint and never looked back. So basically Im a fellow newbie. It was the best decision as everything just works minus the windows shenanigans.Even gaming is almost perfect (apart from the occasional tinkering here and there) its more than great. All my games work great, some better than under win.
Im even in the middle of building my new gaming PC exclusively for Linux in mind.
As I have to use win 11 for work (work laptop) I can see switching was the right decision as every update makes it more annoying and bloated.
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Some truths cut too deep
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Welcome to the team.
I hope you brought your boincing shoes because as soon you'll get comfortable you'll start hopping a lot -
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Foreign words to me. Happy for you nonetheless
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really the only annoying thing about linux nowadays is finding out the name of the software
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welcome home!
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Welcome to the dark side, we have cookies
Having said that, just as a suggestion, take a look at KDE. It feels a bit more windows like, is extremely customizable and as such can be made to work exactly how you want it
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Right. I said that I use OBS for my Elgato HD60 X. Works great!
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It just works for me. I tried it about a year ago when I still had an Nvidia card and Wayland wasn't playing nice. I've since upgraded to an AMD and most things just work out of the box.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gave me some trouble, but that's just typical for MachineGames's engine on Linux.
The most difficult thing about Bazzite is figuring out rpm-ostree and package layering. Luckily there isn't much I need that's not in the package library.
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Bazzite and Chimera are "SteamOS-like" distros that are more focused on providing a game console like experience.
They're immutable operating systems, and the primary UI is Steam. Definitely usable as a desktop PC but that isn't really their target niche.
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Welcome! We are happy to have you. Remember, RTFM.
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Good on you! It's a pretty good time to be transiting to linux. I transitioned a few years ago, and there were a lot of things that sucked back then, that just aren't an issue anymore.
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Welcome to stability. You are in control.
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As someone who uses RHEL for work every time I have to set something up on a windows system I groan. It really boils down to the app, some are very easy to use but it seems anything that involves OS config and permissions becomes a royal pita. Linux isn't 100% pain free (looking at you package conflicts) and SSL config sucks on all OS's but the majority of the time it presents smaller hurdles because I can dig into any part I need to.
