I finally made the switch

I envy the people who live a life that enables them to just ditch Windows like that.

One day...

I switched like 25 years ago. For a long time I had a Windows partition for booting up games, until Microsoft stopped accepting my old licenses. Luckily I really didn't care at that point.
What's Holding you back?
- I just tried switching, mint didn't recognize either my Ethernet or wifi.
- Proprietary software required for work.

I wouldn't say I was friends with Windows. It's more like escaping an abusive relationship IMO.

I was its friend, but it wasn't my friend
- "Would you like to activate Co-Pilot for text entry?!"

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US

This is my favourite meme format of all time

Welcome to the team

Me too, but he covered the wrong guy's face.
The guy on the right makes these update posts about his friendships.
- Lol oops

Upgraded my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Linux Mint last week. I use Arch btw on all my stuff, but that's no beginner's distro. He's very pleased - basically used it for browsing and some light office work, has hardly noticed the difference. One more person off Windows forever.

I've been gaming on windows and had my laptop running linux for 3 years now but I've recently moved my PC to the TV for a more console-like experience. I realized that I almost exclusively play games with a controller anyway.

To that end I switched to Bazzite. Has been working pretty much flawlessly! Even with an Nvidia GPU.

This is the way!
I professionally maintain Linux kernel and custom drivers for embedded applications. I fell in love with Aurora on my first run and chosen Bazzite for my brand new Nvidia gaming PC. This will also be my office/web browsing/dev machine when not gaming.
Why? I am tired of managing / sysadmining Linux OS and don’t want to bring the job to my free time (although it looks like my MoBo could use a kernel patch for supporting fan speeds controller hee hee). Bazzite and siblings are the first distros I stumbled upon that flawlessly supported GSync and nvidia graphics out of the box without changing a single option. The defaults are sane, customization is easy. The whole general idea around how these distros are redesigned solve many many pain points that many uses are yet to experience with standard / "legacy" ones. I am more hyped about them than I was when I first discovered NixOS.
Atomic distros like this IMHO should be the default choice now for new Linux gamers. Period.
- Tbh as an end user Bazzite was so nice and easy to install, especially since the website makes you configure the iso for what you're gonna use it on. It was a very no-bullshit way of getting linux on a PC.
Switched to Bazzite last weekend. Fantastic distro.

welcome to the club

Fool, you fell for our linux propaganda! I condemn thee to suffer distro hopping for 3 years after which you will settle on one distro of your choosing. Iä! Shub-Niggurath!

Don't listen to the demons! Just install Mint and be done!
- I did choose Mint! Ha.
Shub-what now?
🧐
- H.P. Lovecraft was extremely racist.

Nice! I switched my desktop from win11 to popos this weekend. So far so good, but all I've done is play some games (guild wars 2, binding of Isaac) and some quick tests (camera, HDMI to the TV, music)

I'm a fellow pop user myself, and enjoying it. It's my first Linux distro. I'm excited to try their new version when it's ready. I've been thinking about switching and trying it out in beta cause I've heard good things already.
- https://github.com/orgs/pop-os/projects/23/views/1 still in Alpha 7. When it hits beta, I'm going to jump over as well.
- Is it actually in beta? Last I tried it was in alpha 7

I'm finally back on Linux after a while away. I went with pop os just to have the Nvidia drivers pre-installed. I used Mint back in grad school and liked it.

Welcome and I am sorry.

You're gonna love it! What distro did you go with?

Went with Mint. Seemed user friendly for someone new and is great so far.
- Yes the Mint trial version is free for 3 months, then you have to create a Linux account and signup on their website to purchase activation key for the full upgrade to unlock changing themes and recieving updates unless you're okay with occasional popup reminders every 2-minutes that your Linux copy has not been activated. /s lol
- Nice! That was how I started out too.
- Yeah I started with mint a few years back, expecting to distro-hop.... I'm still on mint.
- Now set up a virtual machine and install Arch on it.
  If you want to really learn Linux, that is. After that, you might just settle for pure Debian.

1st Linux? congrat. Whats your partition layout?

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yesss join us

I changed to Linux a few months ago. I’m using Linux Mint and gaming has been pretty easy, no major problems whatsoever. I had some struggles regarding audio with recording and playing guitar. At first I had the urge to distrohop but now I just use my pc daily without even thinking about the OS.

one of us

Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.

"A computer is like an air conditioner – it becomes useless when you open Windows."
- This might become my favorite quote.

Yeah I made the switch and finally moved my daily driver of to kubuntu and it's been surprisingly painless. Only thing I've really struggled with is finding a music player I like.

yeah it's weird cause the music player thing was also a hang up for me too. I liked cmus cause it was simple but some of the things in it annoyed me. I liked Audcacious or whatever its' called cause I could install old winamp skins on it.
Eventually though I just ended up making my own TUI that has all the features I personally want. This seems to be a theme for me and linux. I always find things that have features I like but their separate apps so then I just combine all those features into something I build myself.
In case you haven't heard of it, I like strawberry.
Welcome!🐧 Personally I like seeing giant album covers and synced lyrics with mpv, idk if it might work for you. Not a music library program tho
- Elisa is good too.
  Or, once OP has come fully to the dark side, ncmpcpp

Welcome!

dual boot or single boot? and is this on your main device?

Single boot. And yup, main device. Bye, bye, Windows 👋

My pleasure to meet you 😇❤️