r/linuxmint • u/feeshisafish • 1d ago
Desktop Screenshot Installed Mint a month ago, can never go back
My favorite thing about Linux is that all my fuck-ups are my own. On windows, its always a broken update, a data leak, whatever. But on Linux, I can only blame myself. I'm in control. Sure, its scary to have the power to make your computer hate you, but I prefer it that way. I'd rather fuck up myself than deal with someone else fucking up for me.
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u/bolanrox 1d ago
I am planning on testing it out this weekend on our old Windows 10 PC. I figured I would do a USB stick setup just to see.
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u/Kayenne62 13h ago
Would be interested to hear how it goes.. thinking of doing this myself
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u/bolanrox 12h ago
11 bucks for the USB stick that I should have by Thursday, so I could putz around with it the entire Labor Day weekend.
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u/Sargent_Duck85 22h ago
Switched to Linux Mint last summer.
There were some challenges for sure, but I loved troubleshooting and figuring stuff out. Reminded me of the fun we had back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
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u/SuperCasualGamerDad 1d ago
I tried it a week or so ago. Only got a few days before I went back to windows. My big thing was that games didn't just work out of the box. They would launch but I noticed a lot of the times it would completely change the scale of my ui and mouse to be tiny. That drove me nuts. When I looked up how to fix it... It seemed like a bunch of stuff I didn't want to do.
On top of that I lost stuff like the amd catalyst and stuff I used a lot.
Mint was nice. Liked that it didn't have of the bloat of windows. But for me until they get it to a point where games just work and you can have things like and catalyst or nvidias equivalent I'm going to wait.
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u/cornonthekopp 1d ago
At least in my case i got my steam games up and running pretty easily. Been having reoccurring issues with deadlock but thats mostly cuz its an unoptimized buggy closed beta
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u/Dawnlax 1d ago
Same here.. I just reinstalled Windows by the same things. I really wanna stay on Linux. Microsoft suite another reason :/
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u/Sick_or_Wuut 20h ago
Why not try catchy os or bazzite?
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u/Dawnlax 19h ago edited 18h ago
Cachy and Bazzite solves a lot of that. But yet some games stutters and I can't fix them right now. Plus Windows apps are haunting me bcuz new workloads are coming and I can't do on Linux... But I wont give up. I'll switch to Linux in the future cause I don't like windows.
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u/SillyToro448 10h ago
I'm fortunate to have a PC (Windows) and laptop (Mint) so I just play any games that don't work on my laptop on my PC haha.
I'm sure that in about ~3 years Linux in general will have a ton more support now that a lot of people are switching and it's increasingly becoming more accessible.
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u/wwaningibbous 21h ago
ive never seen a linux user go back to windows, including myself <3
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u/cat1092 19h ago
I have, but it was because they wouldn’t allow themselves a couple of weeks to learn a few basics. Like I had their browsers setup, that’s easy to do. For some, including Spotify.
Then there were at least two who thought just because there was a tiny bit of screen garble at boot & shutting down, that it was going to mess up their hardware. If this were true, I’d have heaps of useless devices, but it’s never happened.
Have been a Linux Mint user since 2009 or 17 years, while I do maintain a Windows 10 & 11 desktop, it’s to either help others, or listening to music, as for whatever reason, the audio quality isn’t the same as on either iOS (my best in regards to sound quality) or Windows. Mint needs a Store, just as Apple & Microsoft, where users can purchase these sound apps & whatever else may be needed, these premium features aren’t free for anyone, regardless of OS being ran. Especially Dolby Atmos, Some brands of MB’s may offer a limited trial, after that, we must pay. Nor does digital audio or TOSLINK for soundbars sound the same, even with proprietary drivers for Mint.
However, the rest works fine for the most part & compared to 2009, the Mint setup has became easier with every release.
The best advice I can give is to simply hang in there!💯
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u/Own-Bluebird2534 19h ago
I've used Mint on my school laptop dualbooted for a while. Dualbooted because exam software is locked to Windows. Love it a lot, never had issues and it's so much easier to develop on Linux for projects.
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u/Modest_Bomba 1d ago
I've tried a ton of different distributions, and if something went wrong, Mint saved the day. Lately, I've been using Fedora (a great system), but I've returned to Mint: it's the best choice for me. I love Linux Mint.