Mr_Dr_Oink comments on Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ive been getting a taste of linux setting up a few raspberry Pis. Its been really fun and it got me looking at installing a linux distro on my PC. Probably ubuntu or ive heard good things about mint.

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

That is EXACTLY the path I took. I started playing with a Raspberry Pi as part of my ham radio hobby, a Pi 1B in those days. Then my old laptop died, I bought a new one from Dell, which came with Win 8.1, and it kept dying. While going around and around with Dell's tech support, I pretty much had to use that Pi for my normal work. I got a pretty good crash course in Linux, to the point it was more familiar to me than Win8.1. So I tried Ubuntu, it was okay, I tried Mint, and that was my home for the next ten years.

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[–] Joeffect@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

If you have amd in your system mint is a pretty great choice.

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[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 1 point 9 months ago

I am following through. Prepped a mint boot drive and have a 1tb ssd on its way. Gonna dual boot for a bit but gonna try to move to mint as a daily driver. Because fuck windows

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