You should use mint
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Unless they need HDR support in which case Kubuntu. Yeah fuck snaps and all but most noobs aren't going to know or care.
Opensuse tumbleweed kde is good too
Is it noob friendly? I haven't tried it before.
There is YAST tool, thanks to it you can avoid using terminal at all
Nice, I might have to check it out. I like their logo too.
And SuSE has (decent) songs. Not many distros can say that.
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There's also fedora kde
do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior, linux linux?
"Ey C.J! Me and Big Smoke are hitting up an Arch Linux warehouse. Where are your colours, homie?"
Been on lemmy for a while. Since the first reddit exodus. I don't get this one?
Edit: typo
I think the joke is that a vocal chunk of the user base here also uses Linux
Ah, Thanks! Makes sense. Kind of depends which community you go to though.
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You should use Linux with auto updates enabled or I’m gonna hack you
It worked for me. I was convinced to switch to Linux after joining Lemmy and I'm blown away every day at how much better it works. It's just faster, smoother, and even has better compatibility with my monitor.
What do operating systems have to do with monitor compatibility? I thought that you just needed a working video output and HDMI/DisplayPort/etc did the rest.
I'm using a Samsung Odyssey Ark and use PIP or PBP to have my desktop and work laptop displayed together. No matter what I try, text becomes illegible on Windows in this mode, but it works flawlessly in Linux.
Anecdotally, I have personally encountered a bug where my Linux system couldn't handle the EDID from the monitor — so that particular model of monitor didn't function with Linux despite it working fine on Windows.
True. I use Arch btw.
So where does a lifelong windows user get started with making the switch?
I prefer reading to videos, but ill take any suggestions. I seem to find only broad strokes for beginners, or stuff that is a couple steps ahead of me.
Linux Mint, as someone who switched about 10 years ago it's what I always recommend. I tried several distros, but mint has been my daily driver for the last 9 years.
Also it's set up similarly to Win 7, so it's far more intuitive for a Windows user. And Mint seems to have the best documentation and community when you can't figure something out.
*And before anyone says anything, I'm speaking of the Debian based distros, I know REHL has some distros that also have great documentation and communities, I'm just a Debian guy so that's what I'm comfortable speaking to.
Even though I haven't run anything Debian based as a daily driver in about a decade, I still recommend Debian based distro's to beginners. With Ubuntu being so widespread it just makes sense, because whenever you search for "how do I install xyz on linux" it's going to be a guide for Ubuntu 99% of the time, which should work on other Debian based distro's most times.
I found Ubuntu to be a bit to foreign when transitioning from Windows, it was actually the first distro I tried. It has more of an old school Mac feel to me, and I just couldn't get used to it. I get what you're saying about the guides though, I do still get Ubuntu forums a lot when I forget to add + Linux Mint on the end of my searches.
For me it was Ubuntu, then back to windows for a while, then ZoronOS for a while, then finally settling on Mint. I've tried a few other distros over the years but I keep coming back to Mint.
Get a new drive, install Linux on new drive, be too lazy to move all your shit from windows to Linux so just use your windows as a scuffed way to store everything else.
Benefit is you don't lose your windows drive so you can always go back
The bad thing is windows doesn't let you see into your Linux drive even though Linux can see into your windows drive so it forces you to move your files to windows fully if you don't like linux
Or do like me and install to a 200gb partition, then carve down the window partition to create a third partition to keep new files, repeat untill you have 5 partitions on your drive. After that, find that you haven't touched windows in forever and wipe it now that everything is spread between an unethical amount of partitions.
At least I can give them funny names
my folder management is so bad but yours might just be worse.
For context mine is:
media/drive/archive/important/archive/misc/programming/archive/misc/sdk
I'd suggest the hands on approach personally. It may take some time to get up though.
You can install a distro onto a USB stick and boot from it to play around and see if you like it.
Here's a quick tutorial:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/latest/preparing-boot-media/
And separately the distro I'd reccomemd using:
https://fedoraproject.org/spins/kde/
After you create the live CD you should be able to keep it plugged in and boot to using this method from howtogeek:
https://www.howtogeek.com/129815/beginner-geek-how-to-change-the-boot-order-in-your-computers-bios/
To be clear if you stop there Linux will not installed, you won't lose any data, and you can just unplug the USB stick to allow windows to boot up when you restart.
One note, sinceit's installed to a USB stick it'll be a bit slower than if you installed it on your PC. Still though, it'll be the same idea.
Here's a full guide on how to install it:
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🐧🗡️!
Make a Windows install USB but instead of putting the Windows installer on it put a Linux installer on it /s
additionally to what everyone says: make a list of programs you use/need and look for alternatives on Linux
Like word -> web word/libreoffice/softmaker
Then before switching make sure you have a way back into windows in case you forgot some important files (no backup, no mercy)
simply boot from usb for testing distros/desktop enviroments as linux does not need a pc install to run
Buy a Steam Deck.
Ahh, shit, here we go again.
Yea, but they'll never know....🫘
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