Any other Linux users here? And has anyone fully migrated?

[Johnathan Smikey Johnathan Smikey]

I have jumped around a few distros. First started with a Raspberry Pi built by my grandpa. At first, I didn't like it. Then, as I was stuck with it, I started to get games on it (Mainly DOOM, and a few others) and I started to get used to it. After experimenting from time to time, I decided to grab a 1TB SSD and install Arch on my own gaming laptop. Ever since, I was distro hopping both out of curiosity and to see what I like. Right now, I am using Linux Mint, and honestly, I think I am stuck on it. It's great and it makes a lot of issues I had on Arch and Fedora rather minimal. Also, it's based on Ubuntu, which is what I am mainly used to because, you know, Debian/PiOS being my first. I am loving it.

Of course, I do have Windows installed on my main machine for more demanding games and FL Studio, but ever since I tried Mint, I have rarely used it.

 

[diapered]

Burn at the fastest speed your software allows.
If in doubt verify the CD-R is rated for said speed, but usually the software detects the rating of the CD-R.

Forcing slower speeds is a CURRENT MYTH from OUTDATED INSTRUCTIONS from when CD-R were calibrated for slower speeds, and so did our hardware, two decades ago.

@popckorn That was exactly the problem! Thanks! Wish I could give you a solution updoot. I switched to imgBurn (I didn't bother playing with different windows versions for this one in wine, I just went with the first one that worked which was XP) and burned at max setting. The effective speed still only writes at ~15X from what I saw, over 10X, but that made all the difference O_o Besides a wine issue, I was worried maybe the problem was burning too fast because, like you said, I saw that posted all over youtube and forums to burn slow. Turns out that was the problem.

 

[popckorn]

@Spike
Hey Skype Jones!
Mate, I unironically found a solution to a real issue here in this niche Linux thread.
May I have one of those badass "Solution" badges? Even if it is a modest "1"?

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

i was thinking of finally making the jump once i move to canada to start school. i dont want to be on windows no fuckin MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

i just need to make sure i can get my school work done on it. im sure i can, my main problem would potentially be with online student portals n shit.

any suggestions or tips?

 

[popckorn]

Linux Mint is basically Windows 7 Perfected.

Ease of Use, you barely notice you change OS, some stuff are essentially changed for the best, but when in doubt ANY GOOGLE SEARCH DESCRIBING YOUR ISSUE + "Ubuntu" or "Linux Mint" will give you forum threads addressing and solving the issues, while explaining them and provided resources when needed. You will never be on the dark with both Ubuntu and Linux Mint communities being welcoming and Newbie Friendly.

It is the best Updating system on any OS, in my opinion. One Click one Password and it updates everything automatically, with curated resources by upstream teams, always stable.

It might not be bleeding edge, but 95% of users would not know the difference, if they are not using last month's latest hardware which is new to the market.

I would probably be using Pop!_OS if they had Cosmic Desktop Environment ready. It is another Ubuntu fork without SNAPS forced on you, and pretty newbie friendly. Very promising Environment (Cosmic), but when I got the new laptop last year Linux Mint updated their Kernel to be a Rolling Kernel (always updated to the latest hardware available) and so my newish RX7700s GPU became fully supported by it. Before the Linux Mint upgrade to rolling kernel, only Pop!_Os had proper support in for my GPU - in the Ubuntu world, and outside of Arch Distros.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Linux Mint is basically Windows 7 Perfected.

Ease of Use, you barely notice you change OS, some stuff are essentially changed for the best, but when in doubt ANY GOOGLE SEARCH DESCRIBING YOUR ISSUE + "Ubuntu" or "Linux Mint" will give you forum threads addressing and solving the issues, while explaining them and provided resources when needed. You will never be on the dark with both Ubuntu and Linux Mint communities being welcoming and Newbie Friendly.

It is the best Updating system on any OS, in my opinion. One Click one Password and it updates everything automatically, with curated resources by upstream teams, always stable.

It might not be bleeding edge, but 95% of users would not know the difference, if they are not using last month's latest hardware which is new to the market.

I would probably be using Pop!_OS if they had Cosmic Desktop Environment ready. It is another Ubuntu fork without SNAPS forced on you, and pretty newbie friendly. Very promising Environment (Cosmic), but when I got the new laptop last year Linux Mint updated their Kernel to be a Rolling Kernel (always updated to the latest hardware available) and so my newish RX7700s GPU became fully supported by it. Before the Linux Mint upgrade to rolling kernel, only Pop!_Os had proper support in for my GPU - in the Ubuntu world, and outside of Arch Distros.

thanks for the advice. ill keep this to heart when picking out distros. ill go with mint, ive heard a lot about it :D

 

[diapered]

i just need to make sure i can get my school work done on it. im sure i can, my main problem would potentially be with online student portals n shit.

Nowadays, everything you could need for school should work in a browser, you shouldn't need to install a windows/mac program locally on your device; that would be the only issue. For example, if your school wants you to install office locally, just use google sheets/docs etc.

Something like zoom for class could be an issue, but a lot of microsoft apps like zoom and teams work perfect with the chromium (un-gooogled chrome) browser, so keep that tip in mind! After all, edge is based on chromium now... I use chromium browser for my work stuff, and firefox for everything else.

any suggestions or tips?

Just for a general distro? Mint is fine, and I guess the gold standard for newbies, but I recommend Manjaro as well for beginners. If mint gives you frustration, don't let that make you give up on linux. Try mint first, but then also make a manjaro live usb to try; I think manjaro is more welcoming with its very simple and clean software center (pamac) and they curate the available packages for the distro. It's limiting in that regard, but pretty much anything in the base manjaro repository is going to work with no hassle at all, at least in my experience when I used it...

Don't just go with one distro at the start, it's part of the fun ^_^

 

[Deleted member 13897]

I’m still in MX Linux and I’m getting to know Debian better with time. I started using konsole this week next distro I try will probably be puppy Linux to try and get better performance out of the shitbox laptop. Just switching windows with MX was enough to make it run better than it had since 2017 or so. I can imagine puppy Linux even making it feel….fast, maybe :-)

@jiyuuboyetsvi i know everyone’s already made suggestions for mint and such, but also consider the KDE GUI. It’s very user friendly and has a robust software “storefront” (it’s all freeware) and is pretty similar to windows, which makes it comforting and familiar for those using Linux the first time.

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

@Spike
Hey Skype Jones!
Mate, I unironically found a solution to a real issue here in this niche Linux thread.
May I have one of those badass "Solution" badges? Even if it is a modest "1"?
View attachment 66252

Hah sorry it's automated I can't change that.

 

[SpikeSlania]

i was thinking of finally making the jump once i move to canada to start school. i dont want to be on windows no fuckin MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

i just need to make sure i can get my school work done on it. im sure i can, my main problem would potentially be with online student portals n shit.

any suggestions or tips?

Of course I would have to chime in to put in a good word for Fedora since it is "bleeding edge" and pretty stable. I feel like one of the main drawbacks I have with Mint besides it being an Ubuntu based is it being limited to the Cinnamon desktop environment so you miss out on trying out the many other options. But Cinnamon is very Windows like which most Users of Mint prefer. But like Deebo said above KDE is also very Windows like for a desktop environment and includes newer features like HDR and has full Wayland support. I personally use GNOME which people often say is similar to Mac OS but may end up switching to Cosmic once it gets a full release.

I would probably be using Pop!_OS if they had Cosmic Desktop Environment ready. It is another Ubuntu fork without SNAPS forced on you, and pretty newbie friendly. Very promising Environment (Cosmic), but when I got the new laptop last year Linux Mint updated their Kernel to be a Rolling Kernel (always updated to the latest hardware available) and so my newish RX7700s GPU became fully supported by it. Before the Linux Mint upgrade to rolling kernel, only Pop!_Os had proper support in for my GPU - in the Ubuntu world, and outside of Arch Distros.

The final Alpha for Cosmic was released, so now we can look forward to the Beta finally. They were hoping for a full release for Cosmic last year and ended up doing 7 Alphas instead :P It is looking good and might get me to drop GNOME for it. Will have to see how the Beta goes and when the official Fedora spin of it gets approved.

 

[popckorn]

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

i was thinking of finally making the jump once i move to canada to start school. i dont want to be on windows no fuckin MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE

i just need to make sure i can get my school work done on it. im sure i can, my main problem would potentially be with online student portals n shit.

any suggestions or tips?

As much as I use LibreOffice on a daily basis (on Windows as well)... I'd say, keep Windows 10 offline in a dual boot and have that cracked Office still available.

Of course, I do have Windows installed on my main machine for more demanding games and FL Studio, but ever since I tried Mint, I have rarely used it.

Oh I thought that fine Belgian piece of audio software would work on linux natively... You know the full edition is named "Gross Beat", some joke as pronounced in french "Grosse Bite"... XD

I have Reaper installed myself on both Win10 and Linux, ALSA working quite well once you get it finally running. But I still have to learn how to run VSTs instrument properly on Linux. And frankly, when I want to play some music, I couldnt be bothered to start researching that stuff so I just boot Win10.

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Oh I thought that fine Belgian piece of audio software would work on linux natively... You know the full edition is named "Gross Beat", some joke as pronounced in french "Grosse Bite"... XD

I have Reaper installed myself on both Win10 and Linux, ALSA working quite well once you get it finally running. But I still have to learn how to run VSTs instrument properly on Linux. And frankly, when I want to play some music, I couldnt be bothered to start researching that stuff so I just boot Win10.

I was thinking of keeping my really old shitty Mac mini around for just this reason

 

[kingofdragons]

I've been dual booting for a long ass time. I also still use older systems and emulators, use DOS regularly since I love my DOS games, sometimes older mac versions, as well as various older systems like C64. So I don't see a reason why I should migrate to only one system unless Windows in the future truly becomes garbage server side only.

 

[Den MDM Den MDM]

I dual boot nobara and a modified windows 10, best choice I made on my life. Also the laptop I'm using rn has Debian, also works flawlessly despite having like 2gbs of ram and a shit processor

 

[Leon]

So after ubuntu has gone full rust, i won't be suggesting ubuntu to anyone as a beginner distro anymore and honestly i suggest others don't either.

Whether rust works or not, a full rust changeover is not something your gonna get alot of help on with the linux community, at least not immediately, so ubuntu's gonna have some teething issues at best, especially since rust is unfinished.

 

[SpikeSlania]

So after ubuntu has gone full rust, i won't be suggesting ubuntu to anyone as a beginner distro anymore and honestly i suggest others don't either.

Don't worry, I been suggesting Fedora over Ubuntu this whole time :p Which the major change we're about to do is remove X11 packages from the repo soon. Full on Wayland ahead

 

[popckorn]

There is a Linux Mint based directly off Debian in case something goes wrong with Ubuntu, as well.

It seems it is also Mint Cinnamon, just running over Debian.

Post automatically merged: May 12, 2025

Here:
LMDE is a Linux Mint project which stands for "Linux Mint Debian Edition". Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint can continue to deliver the same user experience if Ubuntu was ever to disappear. It allows us to assess how much we depend on Ubuntu and how much work would be involved in such an event. LMDE is also one of our development targets, as such it guarantees the software we develop is compatible outside of Ubuntu.

 

[diapered]

Don't worry, I been suggesting Fedora over Ubuntu this whole time :p

Same here, except I push manjaro for beginners :P I'm not a fan of unbuntu or mint period, but I guess others have had more luck than me with those >_>

 

[SpikeSlania]

Same here, except I push manjaro for beginners :P I'm not a fan of unbuntu or mint period, but I guess others have had more luck than me with those >_>

Manjaro is on my list of never recommend Distros. Putting to the side any of it's features or set up, the reason why I would never recommend it is that it collects all User Data. It has an Opt Out option but how many people are going to know about it going in and will have already collected any data of your system before you hit the Opt Out button. If I were to recommend an Arch based distro to a beginner it would be CachyOS

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Don't worry, I been suggesting Fedora over Ubuntu this whole time :p Which the major change we're about to do is remove X11 packages from the repo soon. Full on Wayland ahead

Mmm. Still not able to run all I want to run on my side with Wayland here.

OBS and remote desktop apps like RustDesk are breaking on it.

 

[Daughter of Janus]

Fully an Arch Linux user, and I've been rocking it for the better part of 8 years.

 

[popckorn]

This goes here lel

 

[diapered]

Putting to the side any of it's features or set up

Well, that is a lot to put aside >_> A preinstalled simple and easy to use software center that handles updates and maintenance makes it perfect for newbies imo... I think it is great to start one's linux journey with manjaro: it works and you only need to use cl if you want to.

it is that it collects all User Data. It has an Opt Out option but how many people are going to know about it going in and will have already collected any data of your system before you hit the Opt Out button.

I had to google that, are you referring to mdd? For one, it seems not preinstalled (yet?) I was not aware of this and yea that makes me sad that apparently it will have already collected that system info before you can even opt out, so it is not much of a choice >_< Why are the manjaro team such goobers >_<

I did see what is collected from a user posting the output that installed mdd, and unless someone has physical access to your machine, it is not possible for that data to fingerprint for you, as far as I understand? So unless you elaborate, I think the way you worded that is a little unfair to the manjaro team: they are transparent on what they are collecting with this program (that I don't think is even preinstalled at this point?)

I don't use manjaro anymore, but they must have a reason for this I want to believe the data is innocuous and this is only for more leverage with their hardware vendors or improvements they need to expand the accessibility of linux

 

[SpikeSlania]

Well, that is a lot to put aside >_> A preinstalled simple and easy to use software center that handles updates and maintenance makes it perfect for newbies imo... I think it is great to start one's linux journey with manjaro: it works and you only need to use cl if you want to.

Personal experience with Manjaro has been watching Linus use it in his 30 Days of Linux challenge and every Linux YouTubers I watch saying to avoid it. So I never personally used but then the MDD is another black mark that means I will never use it. It is in development and will collect system and hardware data. As many people pointed out the issue is that you will automatically opt in until you opt out and not the other way around. Like when the steam survey hits me with a pop up I say yes and send system info to them, but with them going the route you don't even get a say at first is a dark mark.