this post was submitted on 13 May 2025
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Pro version, install with English UK language and throwaway email account, disable the crap in the settings once install is completed, takes less time than to fiddle with Linux to make it work like you want it to...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like a lot more fiddling then just going to linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

After spending a day making my wifi antenna work on Mint (when it's supposedly compatible out of the box?), no, it's not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The last time i installed mint in like 2013 it took less than 45 miinutes. I'm sure in 2025 it's a much more of a smooth experience.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

As long as everything works the way it should, sure, I installed it less than a year ago and it wasn't smooth. Just managing the fact that my computer was plugged to a monitor and a 65" TV was a pain in the ass if I didn't want to have to fiddle with display settings every time I switched from one to the other, which isn't an issue on Windows...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's a bit of an esoteric setup connected to a monitor and tv so i imagine it would take some extra finagling to set up. Maybe there is some sofware thay could help?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Only one to make setting up a keyboard shortcut easier (which is also needed on Windows, although the program is easier to use), but with which it was impossible to make it adjust the scaling properly, I had to settle for everything being way too big on my monitor so it would be correct on the TV.

Just the fact that you have to fuck around with the terminal to do stuff that should be fairly basic (like changing the download or documents folder location, which is just a change done in the folder's properties on Windows) kinda ruins the experience and is a big security flaw as it teaches users to just input whatever some stranger tells them to input in the terminal.