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Is that bad? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I've been seriously considering switching to Mint or Ubuntu since they're user friendly. The more I hear about win 11 the less and less I want anything to do with it. also, my pc isn't compatible so there's that 😂

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I gave up on windows 11 last week after my downloads folder decided to stop opening any more. Every other folder worked fine, and I could use a save dialogue to see and navigate inside downloads, but if I opened the folder run file explorer I was met woth a never ending "working on it.." Screen. Hours of trawling useless Microsoft posts to see its a common issue but none of the suggested fixes worked.

    I installed Pop! OS, which is essentially Ubuntu but Ive heard works very well with games. Few small hiccoughs getting used to the UI paradigm shift but its motoring along now with no problems. My 5 year old desktop is running much smoother with less overall resource use too. Feels snappier.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    The smoother part sounds very appealing. I will look into this distro. Thanks.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Let me know what you think of it! I had some minor issues with my secondary hard drive, but they were entirely my fault, I had a lot of backups on it so didn't initially reformat it from NTFS which I was using for windows to ext4 which is a native Linux format. It would sometimes not mount the drive on boot, but after transferring the backups to an external drive and reformatting the internal drive it was all good.

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