This is my favourite meme format of all time
Welcome to the team
Nice! I switched my desktop from win11 to popos this weekend. So far so good, but all I’ve done is play some games (guild wars 2, binding of Isaac) and some quick tests (camera, HDMI to the TV, music)
I’m a fellow pop user myself, and enjoying it. It’s my first Linux distro. I’m excited to try their new version when it’s ready. I’ve been thinking about switching and trying it out in beta cause I’ve heard good things already.
Is it actually in beta? Last I tried it was in alpha 7
I’m finally back on Linux after a while away. I went with pop os just to have the Nvidia drivers pre-installed. I used Mint back in grad school and liked it.
Upgraded my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Linux Mint last week. I use Arch btw on all my stuff, but that’s no beginner’s distro. He’s very pleased - basically used it for browsing and some light office work, has hardly noticed the difference. One more person off Windows forever.
dual boot or single boot? and is this on your main device?
Single boot. And yup, main device. Bye, bye, Windows 👋
You’re gonna love it! What distro did you go with?
Went with Mint. Seemed user friendly for someone new and is great so far.
Now set up a virtual machine and install Arch on it.
If you want to really learn Linux, that is. After that, you might just settle for pure Debian.
Yes the Mint trial version is free for 3 months, then you have to create a Linux account and signup on their website to purchase activation key for the full upgrade to unlock changing themes and recieving updates unless you’re okay with occasional popup reminders every 2-minutes that your Linux copy has not been activated. /s lol
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I laughed way too hard at this ☠️
Holy fuck. I am someone with Win 10 and was thinking about trying Linux Mint and then your post made me say WTF, should I investigate something else?
I’m glad the /s was added because it seemed wrong, but then I was second guessing. Absolutely hilarious though! Got me to laugh after.
There’s a package called
activate-linuxthat puts the activation warning overlay on the screen in case you ever feel homesick.
…and there’s Ubuntu advertising its pro subscription in the terminal.
Just so you know, the Arch free trial is 6 months
Because that is the maximum time an average Linux user can stand without trying out a new Distro.
Actually for many people rolling release is a cure for that issue because it’s the extensive version upgrades (that also like to fail) which often gets people to the point of reinstalling then trying another distro while being at it.
I’m using the same arch install on my home server for 10 years now.
You’re not wrong…
Had me in the first half…
Yeah I started with mint a few years back, expecting to distro-hop… I’m still on mint.
I wouldn’t say I was friends with Windows. It’s more like escaping an abusive relationship IMO.
I was its friend, but it wasn’t my friend
“Would you like to activate Co-Pilot for text entry?!”
“For your convenience, you are now sharing all of your personal files with Microsoft.”
Yeah I made the switch and finally moved my daily driver of to kubuntu and it’s been surprisingly painless. Only thing I’ve really struggled with is finding a music player I like.
In case you haven’t heard of it, I like strawberry.
Welcome!🐧 Personally I like seeing giant album covers and synced lyrics with mpv, idk if it might work for you. Not a music library program tho
Elisa is good too.
Or, once OP has come fully to the dark side, ncmpcpp
I’ve been gaming on windows and had my laptop running linux for 3 years now but I’ve recently moved my PC to the TV for a more console-like experience. I realized that I almost exclusively play games with a controller anyway.
To that end I switched to Bazzite. Has been working pretty much flawlessly! Even with an Nvidia GPU.
Switched to Bazzite last weekend. Fantastic distro.
ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US
Fool, you fell for our linux propaganda! I condemn thee to suffer distro hopping for 3 years after which you will settle on one distro of your choosing. Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
Shub-what now?
🧐
H.P. Lovecraft was extremely racist.
Don’t listen to the demons! Just install Mint and be done!
I did choose Mint! Ha.
that is how I started 6 months ago, but then I noticed how awfully outdated all the packages are. As I wanted to use it for gaming I’d lije to have the latest drivers and latest Steam, and a modern wayland window manager etc. which is why I am now on Fedora and am very happy so far. Good luck on your journey.
Way to go!
welcome to the club
Welcome and I am sorry.
I changed to Linux a few months ago. I’m using Linux Mint and gaming has been pretty easy, no major problems whatsoever. I had some struggles regarding audio with recording and playing guitar. At first I had the urge to distrohop but now I just use my pc daily without even thinking about the OS.
Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.
“A computer is like an air conditioner – it becomes useless when you open Windows.”
This might become my favorite quote.
