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Have you or someone close to you converted to Linux recently (with Windows 10's end of support)? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 days ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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I'd like to hear people's journeys and motivations from people who switched over the last few months, and if there were particular challenges that were faced.

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[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm just finishing off switching now. My media server and laptop have been on Xubuntu and Mint respectively for the last few years, but my main PC was stuck on Windows 10 while I got some stuff finished. It's now on Mint while I confirm that everything's transferred over properly.

While I do prefer Linux, it's been quite frustrating so far. The big stuff has been pretty smooth, but I've had a few silly little issues that have made things harder than they should be.

My Bluetooth headphones wouldn't stay connected until I removed them and added them back, and I couldn't print until I deleted an outdated certificate. MusicBrainz Picard wouldn't move and rename files correctly until after an unrelated reboot. I couldn't write to a drive mounted through fstab because none of the guides I found said that you had to do anything different for an NTFS drive, even though some of them were aimed at people switching from Windows.

At the moment, every time I add a podcast to Clementine, it downloads every episode, and I can't see any way to change it.

Nothing major, but I'm going to pull all of my hair out by the time I'm done 😫

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

NTFS is rough to deal with indeed. Right now getting niche hardware to work is one of Linux's barriers to adaptation. If the device's data streams are documented well, it can be technically possible to create homemade device drivers, but you'll have no hair left to pull before you even begin.