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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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[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Took the plunge this week. My secondary hard drive now has Mint and I've got it working so when I boot up I select which os/drive to start up. The plan is to use Mint primarily for awhile and get used to it.

Definitely a bit less intuitive, and many things are still needing to be done through the consol instead of the GUI which is annoying. Haven't had success migrating my Firefox profile without creating an account. Haven't figured out how to get the "dual" monitor setup to work the way a I want either. Feels like a bit of a downgrade but I'm hoping once I get past the initial setup pains it'll be smooth sailing.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Thanks for sharing and congrats on making the jump! In my experience, when I broke Linux, most of the time it's because I wanted to try something new, and only occasionally an updated software breaks something, but it generally only takes a bit of effort to pinpoint the culprit. Especially on Mint, once you have things working they'll work as they are, and any issue you may encounter will be easy to resolve after you figure it out the first time.

On Windows it was the inverse... Microsoft often wanted to try something new on me.