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How is your Linux Adventure going? (lemm.ee)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Probably like many of you i switched to Linux. I first used it in 2012 when i heard about it in School. Back then i used Ubuntu, but could not figure it out how to play my Games on CD, DVDs and Steam so i switched back to Windows.

Over the Years i often tried it out again but had various problems with it.

Now, thanks to the Trump Donald, i have a real reason to no longer use Microshaft Proudcts. Our Boycott!

So far i tried Linux Mint, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, ZorinOS, PopOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Gnu Guix, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, Antergos. That is over 10 years.

What i found out:

i dont like gnome, i find the ui weird. xfce is too cobbled together imo and ugly, lxqt too.
i like kde and budgie
im currently on kubuntu and gnu guix :)

Linux is kind of hard coming from windows, but i wont switch back now. It is more than just using a OS, it is now a mindset: more independent Europa! Maybe i will even switch to OSS that is made by European Firms and Developers, afterall if i donate i want my money to stay in Europa.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I’ve been at it for about three years now. Started with Pop!_OS for my first try. Back then I had a laptop with an Nvidia GPU and I had a ton of problems using a secondary monitor. I ended up switching to Linux Mint, and In cinnamon, games would open on the wrong screen and I didn’t know of any easy way to force them to another screen. I later had the same issues with KDE and Gnome on a variety of distros. Eventually I came across EndeavourOS, and my dual monitor issues were mostly solved, but I still had a lot of quirks with the eventual adoption of Wayland.

Then I bought a desktop. A full AMD rig, Ryzen 7 7800x3d and a Sapphire 7800xt Nitro+. This changed everything. I had no idea how much easier things would be without being hamstrung by Nvidia.

I ended up spending a solid year running Fedora Workstation (Gnome) and loved it until I decided forcing gnome to look the way I wanted it to made it too unstable. Time to try a tiling WM. I tried an install of Fedora with Hyprland and always had issues with it. So I remembered my old friend EndeavourOS. I installed it without a DE, installed Hyprland with some preconfigured dot files to start from, and holy shit. This is gonna be home for a while. Sooooo incredibly smooth, positively gorgeous, insanely snappy and stable.

I’m really grateful for all the lessons along the way. The distros mentioned above probably only account for 15% of my distrohopping experimentation, and the problem solving taught me tons of things I wouldn’t have learned otherwise. Linux is meant to be explored and savored.