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

[thecrow2313]

WSL ist jetzt Open Source

Das Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) wurde heute ganz offiziell als Open-Source deklariert. Das bedeutet, dass der Code jetzt für die Community auf GitHub zur Verfügung steht. Man kann also den Quellcode herunterladen und bearbeiten. Inzwischen hat WSL schon einige…

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Post automatically merged: May 22, 2025

 

[nobitakun]

It's nice to see there is a lot of variety on the OS chosen. As I am a very classic person and I've been working with Linux for more than 15 years and using it for more than 20 years, jumping from one to another, I've been well stablished in Debian. Why? for me Linux = work. I have fun with it, of course, but the most important thing an OS should have is rock solid stability, regardless it can play a game or not.

If I want to play around, I use Xubuntu, as I consider XFCE the best desktop environment of all times.

I have one computer with Windows 10, because I need it, as the company where I work uses Windows for all user computers and I work in the security department. Also, it's fun to have all the OS'es, because I like to learn new crap from even Microsoft. I always wanted to have an Apple computer, and maybe I will buy one M1 when I can find it very cheap, as I want to tinker it. Not something that I will ever need, but as an IT worker and lover, I feel curious.

 

[Hourai]

Hiiiii, I swapped to Mint a bit over a month ago. Got sick of windows. Got even sicker of it when I replaced my laptop, because it came with 11 and I was lending the installation USB to a friend. Also installed it to play eroge that got ported to Linux, because it wasn't working on windows 11.

It...isn't really my cup of tea, if I'm being honest. The troubleshooting and things not just working (half the time I just give up) really puts a strain on me at times, even if I do really prefer it. Is this a Mint thing, or do all of them kinda have that issue?

 

[SpikeSlania]

Hiiiii, I swapped to Mint a bit over a month ago. Got sick of windows. Got even sicker of it when I replaced my laptop, because it came with 11 and I was lending the installation USB to a friend. Also installed it to play eroge that got ported to Linux, because it wasn't working on windows 11.

It...isn't really my cup of tea, if I'm being honest. The troubleshooting and things not just working (half the time I just give up) really puts a strain on me at times, even if I do really prefer it. Is this a Mint thing, or do all of them kinda have that issue?

Linux Mint is behind in terms of patches and applications. People like it for being stable even if outdated. But I can't guarantee that switching to a distro that keeps up to date with patches and applications will fix what issues you're having since I'm not really sure what those issues are :p But if you want to try a distro that is "bleeding edge" in terms of updates/applications and easier for someone new I would suggest Fedora. If you have a use case that is more tailored to say gaming, content creation, coding, or something along those lines then we could throw out more specific recommendations of OS that come with pre installed patches/applications for that.

 

[aquova]

It...isn't really my cup of tea, if I'm being honest. The troubleshooting and things not just working (half the time I just give up) really puts a strain on me at times, even if I do really prefer it. Is this a Mint thing, or do all of them kinda have that issue?

They each have their pros and cons. You'll see people with their diehard favorites, and I think a large part of it is people who are passionate about the distro that worked for them. I used Ubuntu for a number of years, grew more and more frustrated with it, but really clicked with Arch.

 

[popckorn]

 

[thecrow2313]

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I'm sure none of those users laptops don't have uefi locks

Post automatically merged: May 23, 2025

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Lest we forget

 

[Hourai]

Linux Mint is behind in terms of patches and applications. People like it for being stable even if outdated. But I can't guarantee that switching to a distro that keeps up to date with patches and applications will fix what issues you're having since I'm not really sure what those issues are :p But if you want to try a distro that is "bleeding edge" in terms of updates/applications and easier for someone new I would suggest Fedora. If you have a use case that is more tailored to say gaming, content creation, coding, or something along those lines then we could throw out more specific recommendations of OS that come with pre installed patches/applications for that.

The biggest issue is that it doesn't let me used my headphones. Both wireless (with a USB adapter) and wired (headphone jack and USB-C adapter) don't work at all, and the instructions on how to even attempt to fix it seem to assume I have knowledge on what I'm doing.

I'm not really invested majorly in resource intensive gaming, or anything else. At most, I'm entertaining the idea of turning essays I wrote for fun into videos, though I do still find that unlikely. I genuinely just did it out of a desire for privacy and pure hate for how windows is so horrifically bad. I chose Mint because I wasn't going to deal with decision paralysis with all of the different versions out there

 

[SpikeSlania]

The biggest issue is that it doesn't let me used my headphones. Both wireless (with a USB adapter) and wired (headphone jack and USB-C adapter) don't work at all, and the instructions on how to even attempt to fix it seem to assume I have knowledge on what I'm doing.

With hardware/accessories Mint can be up to 2 years behind on drivers so a rolling release like Fedora/Arch might have the drivers you need already in the kernel for your headset. Though there are accessories that still won't have drivers in the kernel and might be fixable through user tinkering.

I'm not really invested majorly in resource intensive gaming, or anything else. At most, I'm entertaining the idea of turning essays I wrote for fun into videos, though I do still find that unlikely. I genuinely just did it out of a desire for privacy and pure hate for how windows is so horrifically bad. I chose Mint because I wasn't going to deal with decision paralysis with all of the different versions out there

Possibly Fedora Cinnamon if you want to keep the same look and feel of Mint with more up to date drivers. Though the option does come up for Nobara that is a fork of Fedora that does come with extra patches/codecs for running OBS Studio just doesn't have a Cinnamon desktop option but the Official and KDE versions use KDE Plasma which is a similar desktop environment to Windows 10 and has HDR support.

 

[aquova]

The biggest issue is that it doesn't let me used my headphones. Both wireless (with a USB adapter) and wired (headphone jack and USB-C adapter) don't work at all, and the instructions on how to even attempt to fix it seem to assume I have knowledge on what I'm doing.

Not working even via a headphone jack is really wild. Does Mint use pipewire? I wonder if trying that would help the audio issues.

 

[Leon]

I'm sure none of those users laptops don't have uefi locks

Post automatically merged: May 23, 2025

Lest we forget

Honestly even os passwords are overprotective if you know what your doing, problem is people are idiots.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Not working even via a headphone jack is really wild. Does Mint use pipewire? I wonder if trying that would help the audio issues.

Pipewire nowadays IIRC. Headphone jack + USB adapter means the USB adapter is a small soundcard and may need a specific driver. If I were in their shoes I would type "lsusb" in a terminal when the thing is plugged in and search for the dongle name.

 

[popckorn]

 

[Hourai]

Not working even via a headphone jack is really wild. Does Mint use pipewire? I wonder if trying that would help the audio issues.

It does, yeah. Been really busy and so only just checked, which is the reason for the late reply.

 

[popckorn]

 

[LastValsion]

Swapped from Mint to Fedora 42 KDE Plasma version. Liking it a lot so far. Now just got to work on ricing the whole thing to my liking.

 

[diapered]

WSL ist jetzt Open Source

Das Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) wurde heute ganz offiziell als Open-Source deklariert. Das bedeutet, dass der Code jetzt für die Community auf GitHub zur Verfügung steht. Man kann also den Quellcode herunterladen und bearbeiten. Inzwischen hat WSL schon einige…

www.deskmodder.de

Post automatically merged: May 22, 2025

There is some misinformation in that video, imo. Manjaro is not "known" for access to AUR... In fact, it warns you when you attempt to enable AUR support in pamac and previously that feature was not included at all. I never used AUR on manjaro, but I assume you would need to use the unstable (untested?) branch to avoid conflicts, but that defeats the purpose of the curation the manjaro team does for stability. You might as well use a different distro at that point...

The selling point of manjaro is the best otb newbie friendly experience, imo.

 

[SpikeSlania]

There is some misinformation in that video, imo. Manjaro is not "known" for access to AUR...

Yeah! Get it straight! The Manjaro devs are only known for DDOSing the AUR repo! Twice... I didn't watch the video but I saw the opportunity to add a Manjaro highlight :p

 

[diapered]

Yeah! Get it straight! The Manjaro devs are only known for DDOSing the AUR repo! Twice... I didn't watch the video but I saw the opportunity to add a Manjaro highlight :p

lol, that's true. Makes the AUR claim even more funny

I didn't watch the video

You made a good decision. Not to be a hater, but there is nothing of substance in the video, imo...

 

[SpikeSlania]

You made a good decision. Not to be a hater, but there is nothing of substance in the video, imo...

I have my preferred Linux YouTubers down to 3 that I watch regularly and then there's like maybe 4 that I might watch if the video looks interesting or I'm searching for something. Outside of that I pretty much ignore any other Linux content creator.

Swapped from Mint to Fedora 42 KDE Plasma version. Liking it a lot so far. Now just got to work on ricing the whole thing to my liking.

Fedora for life! I keep ending back on Fedora for desktop. Never dived into the ricing rabbit hole. I felt a little bad of how little I customized my desktop after seeing what PewDiePie did with his ricing. I'm happy just adding dock to dash to my GNOME set up, though if I was on KDE I would probably be trying to replicate the look I have on GNOME.

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

There is some misinformation in that video, imo. Manjaro is not "known" for access to AUR... In fact, it warns you when you attempt to enable AUR support in pamac and previously that feature was not included at all. I never used AUR on manjaro, but I assume you would need to use the unstable (untested?) branch to avoid conflicts, but that defeats the purpose of the curation the manjaro team does for stability. You might as well use a different distro at that point...

The selling point of manjaro is the best otb newbie friendly experience, imo.

Never using AUR in Manjaro means you didnt go very far with it. AUR is one of the best selling point of any Arch-based distro...XD

 

[diapered]

Never using AUR in Manjaro means you didnt go very far with it. AUR is one of the best selling point of any Arch-based distro...XD

Well, manjaro isn't really meant for power users, so you aren't really supposed to "go far" with it: it's for newbies and lazy people (like me >_<) that mostly just want everything to work. Yea the AUR is a big selling point for arch-based which is one reason why I moved to garuda since the chaotic-aur makes it so even a dummy like me can use AUR packages easily ^_^

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

Well, manjaro isn't really meant for power users, so you aren't really supposed to "go far" with it: it's for newbies and lazy people (like me >_<) that mostly just want everything to work. Yea the AUR is a big selling point for arch-based which is one reason why I moved to garuda since the chaotic-aur makes it so even a dummy like me can use AUR packages easily ^_^

I've still got Manjaro on the wife's box here and it can install AUR fine. It's pretty much the same thing as Arch but with KDE plasma by default.

 

[diapered]

I've still got Manjaro on the wife's box here and it can install AUR fine. It's pretty much the same thing as Arch but with KDE plasma by default.

You enable AUR installation through pamac and it works fine? huh, maybe manjaro is more robust than I thought. That's great! Despite the hate manjaro gets, I still recommend it! I will always manjaro. I just never enabled AUR in pamac because scared from forum posts >_<

 

[_oBSOLEte_]

You enable AUR installation through pamac and it works fine? huh, maybe manjaro is more robust than I thought. That's great! Despite the hate manjaro gets, I still recommend it! I will always manjaro. I just never enabled AUR in pamac because scared from forum posts >_<

No I simpyI use pacman and yay. Both with either -Syu or -S "something" to update or install "something".