This is just to share my experience with everyone, especially the people still undecided.

I was planning the switch for months, and finally had a couple hours undisturbed from the wife and the kids :)

It was a slightly rocky start, as my USB wifi receiver did not have native drivers, but with wired internet and the official Mint tutorial the rest of the transition was super smooth.

The OS install went flawlessly and within an hour I had all the basic programs, browser and utilities up and running. I love that I just download the app from the dedicated place, no pointless web surfing for the latest versions.

I backed up my steam folder (with the rest of my files of course), so after installing the steam client and some quick synchronization I had my installed games library back in minutes. I did some testing and everything works great. As I own a steam deck I already had some experience with games not running natively on Linux, but a saw many great tutorials for beginners. I cant wait to test out some more games!

Edit: thank you for all the positivity and great feedback! I know Lemmy users love Linux and I have to admit I feel a little bit more included :D

Who knows, maybe I will start warching Star Trek next…

  • minimalfootprint@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I love that I just download the app from the dedicated place, no pointless web surfing for the latest versions.

    IMO this is a huge thing, Linux actually does a lot better than Windows. I know the Windows Store exists, but it is lacking in lots of ways.

  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Just to be clear, watching Star Trek, or Sci-Fi in general, isn’t a requirement of being a lemming. It just helps parse the memes

  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Welcome to the club! I did the same thing earlier this year, although I ended up moving from Mint to openSUSE Tumbleweed after a couple weeks due to needing support for some bleeding edge hardware.

    Thanks to Steam / Proton it’s been relatively painless!

  • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Welcome brother.

    Yea I switched from Windows to Fedora and aside from issues with music production, I have been happy with the switch. Its a weight off my mind knowing i dont have to worry about Windows stealing my data anymore.

    I’m probably going to be switching to Ubuntu or something Ubuntu based since it seems it will be a bit easier to work with for making music. Not that Fedora hasnt been great in general but i think my specific needs like having yabridge for Windows vsts is making me consider switching.

      • Bluefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I have looked at Fedora jam, my issue with it is the same issue I currently have with no way to use yabridge that I could find though this may have chnaged since i last looked.

        AV linux does look promising, just haven’t deep dived on it yet. My concern was that its done by a single dev iirc but again i haven’t done a deep dive quite yet.

        And also a huge fan of reaper. Been using it for years now and I love it so very solid recommendations. I appreciate it. :)

        • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          3 months ago

          For Fedora, it’s three commands:

          sudo dnf copr enable patrickl/yabridge

          sudo dnf install yabridge --refresh

          After a wine update, run:

          yabridgectl sync

          And AV Linux is one dev yeah, but it doesn’t much matter. It’s just a tweaked build, it’s based on MX so you’re still getting all the updates needed, just with some config changes more or less.

          Fwiw I use straight Debian, but I’ve also been using Debian for so long that it’s graduated college, met a partner, got married and is considering kids.

          Ubuntu I avoid these days because I think Canonical is running it into the toilet, with so many bad decisions (snaps, pro subscription, etc) that I just won’t touch it.

          That said, AV Linux is essentially deb based anyway (MX is based on Debian), so it’s a nice setup if you don’t want to have to think about your kernel.

          Fedora I also like, I’m just less of a yum/dnd guy than an apt guy (which I have literally typed into RHEL machines before remembering I was being an idiot).