I’ve been almost-ready to ditch Windows for years. Now’s the time.

My new neighbor is an old-school nerd. He hosts install parties at our local leftist third space.
He’s going to help me switch to… not sure yet. Probably Mint. I can’t wait. It feels as good as never giving a cent to Amazon, Uber, and streaming services.

Yay.

  • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I know you’re getting a million suggestions and to be clear- nothing is wrong with Mint, but I recommend Fedora Kinoite as a first distro if you’re coming from Windows. KDE is going to be more familiar and the way the backend is designed makes it basically impossible to meaningfully break.

      • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        Definitely Bazzite, I also love Zorin but IMO that’s more an “Install on your dad’s laptop” OS than something for someone who knows how to install an OS.

        • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
          1·
          23 hours ago

          Awww. I’ve been using Linux on and off for decades, and zorin is my fav. It just works. Easy to use, hard to break.

          • James R Kirk@startrek.websiteEnglish
            2·
            21 hours ago

            Hah! I definitely didn’t mean any shade at Zorin! I used it for a while too. I ultimately moved to Fedora Kinoite and now Bazzite for the exact reasons you described, the immutability makes it even harder to break than Zorin.

            It’s great we have so many good options these days.

            • osanna@lemmy.vgEnglish
              2·
              21 hours ago

              That’s both a bonus and a drawback. Same with the fediverse. There’s so much choice, but that often scares people off. Either way, I love FOSS.