• sunbunman@lemm.eeEnglish
    431·
    1 month ago

    As a long time Windows user, my SSD just shat itself last week. MS has been pissing me off with the constant “upgrade to Windows 11” messages that I’ve finally taken steps to change over to Linux. My experience has been as follows:

    • Ubuntu has been hot garbage, half the things I’ve tried don’t seem to work, and Gnome is hot garbage for a newcomer (this might just be an Ubuntu issue)
    • My current distro, Debian with Cinnamon, is pretty good. I don’t want the cutting edge of OS, I just want something that works and won’t bug me for major updates every other month.
    • There is a learning curve. No matter what anyone tells you, you will need to at least be able to google and copy and paste some terminal commands in Linux. Anything more is a bonus.
    • Linux can have a really pretty GUI after popping in a few changes to the default setup.
    • Gaming has actually been pretty smooth. 0 issues Lutrix running games from GoG and Steam is not bad even those without Linux support 👍🏾
    • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 month ago

      Brand new Linux user and you already hate Ubuntu, welcome, you are fitting in perfectly already. Half the things didn’t work probably because of their dumb Snap garbage.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      19·
      1 month ago

      For anyone else reading this and thinking about trying linux for the first time, be sure to use Linux Mint. It will give you the smoothest and easiest experience, and you pretty much never need the terminal. It even comes with a really nice software store (but everything is free).

      • NoTimeLeft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        Second this. Wanted Linux as Windows user. Currently on Linux Mint, got it a few months now. Really easy to use, and allows you to experiment with the console if you’d like to, but almost never necessary. So far, I haven’t encountered any problems with it (apart from a total lock-out while trying some weird shit in the console with printer drivers, but printers are evil anyway, so I’ll give it a pass for now lmao)