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Advice for a Mac user switching to Linux?
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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2026
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Try and avoid the XY problem. I.e. "how do I do X with Y?"
You're coming from macOS and a lot of idiomatic things will be different. Find the idiomatic ways to do (whatever) on the distribution your using.
Also, have fun, be reckless, ruin the system, reinstall try again...
Just would be nice to avoid the pain of spending weeks setting everything up only to find out later that someone essential for me doesn’t work. I guess just part of the process