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[-] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

Gonna be a lot of perfectly good hardware going up on ebay soon.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

That's interesting. Have anything that comes to mind as easily searchable that might start showing up? I would have to imagine a lot of corporate stuff that is certain they want to keep up on security.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

CPU: intel 7th gen or earlier.

I doubt companies will be flooding markets with anything. 7th gen devices came out almost a decade ago (yes it's almost been that long since 2016) and most companies only keep computers for 3-5 years max.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

I really need to move my PC over to Mint, but change makes me deeply uncomfortable :(

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Take it slow. Install a VM with Mint. Play around with it. Get familiar. Move your regular usage over to it gradually. Make the jump when you are ready. It's perfectly OK to have reservations about a big change like that. But you don't have to do it all in one go.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

It's not using it that's the problem, I have Mint installed on my work PC and my laptop, and I like it. But for some reason installing it on my main PC, which I use pretty much every day, has me worried for reasons I don't get myself. It's like a soft phobia, an irrational fear.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Dual boot? Keep like 200GB for windows, and the rest mint. If you need windows for something, boot over. But otherwise, I legit feel more worried when windows has access to my data.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Just put it on a USB stick. No install, no commitment. Baby steps.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Honestly this is the best suggestion especially if you can mount your windows partition read only. You get the benefits of Linux while still having access to your files.

For most folks, the biggest hurdle is getting compatible apps. Once you find the apps you need, moving over is just a backup and restore away.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ironic, the fact that I hate change is the whole reason I ended up using Linux. I felt that Mint was closer to Windows 7 than 8.0 at the time.

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

I screwed up so bad. I bought a laptop to trial different Linux distros and also because my old one is 12yo now and has its own problems. However, the manufacturer ONLY provides Windows support drivers, so the keyboard won't work without a kernel level patch and I am not a kernel-patch level guy yet

[-] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago

wtf how does a laptop need drivers to use the keyboard? i thought they just used usb/ps2, that is truly fucked

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Right? It's some firmware level issue, but I haven't looked deeper into it recently because I got frustrated with a couple failed patch attempts. I guess you have to include the laptop model explicitly or it doesn't know to look for it

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Asus Q533M. I found a user patch on stack but it was for older models. Tried to update it myself and run a rebuild, but I might have missed a step since it errored out

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

If you're using an Arch Based distribution and have access to a USB keyboard so you can use standard HID drivers during setup you should be able to follow along on this wiki to use the software included in the ASUS Linux stack. It appears they have some nonsense going on. Tbh I didn't know about this until looking just now and I'm gonna be going through here and getting the tools I need since I've got an ROG mobo I think would benefit

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Sweet, thanks! I haven't settled on a distro yet, but from what I've seen this is something Asus does to kneecap as much of the community as they can

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Originally I planned to switch in October when support for W10 runs out, but it seems my PC made the push for me.

At the start of ~~July~~ June some issue with windows that caused my system to freeze and then get stuck on boot when restarted finally bricked my system for a 2nd time this year and I was forced to reinstall the OS again. So, instead of wasting another 4 months on dealing with all the crap windows has been throwing my way lately, I just jumped ship to mint.

3 weeks in and, so far so good. Really got around to all the personalization it allows over windows. Learning to run a pc mostly through the terminal has been a step out of the comfort zone, but an enjoyable one tbh

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

At the start of July

Ah, so I see you switched to Linux and made the time travel. Cheers.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

What's with all the Mint hype? I've never used it and have little desire to go back to a Ubuntu-based distro. Just curious why everyone loves it so much.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I ran it for a while, and loved it. Cinnamon is sleek and feels polished. The installation is really fast and not bloated with garbage software.

Everything generally works, and the interface feels familiar.

It is Ubuntu/Debian under the hood, so compatibility with most software is good. Bleeding edge drivers may run into issues, but most of them work with a little fiddling.

It's worth a try. If nothing else toss it on a USB drive and give it a test drive.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It's rock solid and the desktop is very close to what people coming from Windows would expect. It's just a very good beginner distro, not necessarily something that more advanced users would choose.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Mint is easy. Easy is good.

Even if you can configure your way through Arch to a killer custom system, is that really what you want to do every time on every computer in your life?

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For the most part, it works well without needing too much tinkering by the user. It's the Fisher Price My First Distro.

I tried it out with a 21.3 dualboot with Windows 11 and within 2 or 3 months I hadn't gone back to Windows other than to push files over. Sure, there were a few "learning opportunities" with tweaks or weird driver issues that were because of the particular hardware I'm using, but they were manageable. At this point I'm running 22.1 only on this machine.

The nice part is that being Ubuntu-based, if I run into a problem, I can search for both the more widely-documented Ubuntu version of the issue, or look for a Mint-related version. Claude does a great job with small-to-medium troubleshooting rather than me dig through forums. It's low-risk, low-work, high-reward.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

I put Mint Cinnamon on an older laptop just this past weekend and had a lot of fun with it. Are there any migration tips for my main Windows machine? I was thinking of going with Bazzite since it's my gaming box. What about saved game data and whatnot? I was reading about Putty and SSH ing over to the laptop, but I'm not sure what a good strategy is for my desktop.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Step one: back up your data.

Step two: back up your data again.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

This person backs up.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Step three: test your backups

Step four: back up your data again

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i'd recommend getting a new SSD and installing Linux on that, then you can read your windows drive from Linux and copy over the files you need

Game files can be copied over the same way (obvs to different directories)

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Bazzite is a lot less user friendly than mint in major ways. You get everything in mint as you do on Bazzite. I switched to Bazzite and it lasted 2 days before going back to mint. KDE is too deep unnecessarily so. Bazzite doesn't gain you much at all, at this point in time 3 years ago or so I'd not said the same thing. Mint is so polished for gaming shit usually just works now. It's not worth the hype, hassle. I've distro hopped and always came back to mint.

Source is I been there and done all that and more. Your not missing out on anything. Spin up a live USB and try it but believe me dearly it's not worth moving all your stuff reinstalling etc etc. Keep the work flow you got and master it. Other options have more maintenance and headaches.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Honestly, using Linux Mint lately and it's been far smoother than my previous linux attempts. Granted, there's much better tech today to help, but yeah it's been nice. My only sadness is not getting my singular Xbox App game playable on linux.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Recently I was using Ubuntu and needed to recall a terminal command I had used a couple weeks prior. Luckily, my terminal commands are logged in the ~/.bash_history text file. Easy, convenient, customizable, and no AI needed!

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Ctrl+r in any terminal will open up a search mode for your history.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

for all Ubuntu haters there is a Debian Version of Mint. And second Linux Mint is the perfekt set and forget Distro. No Tinkering for a basic PC without special Requirements.

And i love it that almost all agree that when a noob ask what Distro to choose that Linux mint is every time in the proposed Distros

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Mint is really good , but a while ago I was having issues with Mint , swapped to Fedora Desktop. No more bad feelings to Linux again

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I'm seeing a lot of advocacy for Mint on Lemmy but not as much for Fedora it seems?

I've only ever run one Linux distro and that was Fedora KDE Plasma, havent tried Mint yet. Are they not mostly the same or am I missing something?

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

You're not. If you're happy with what you've got, don't worry about it. Or join the great Linux tradition of distro hopping. But Mint gets a lot of praise for noobs, but much like Ubuntu there are much better distros out there. It just has name recognition at this point.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Mint is the best distro for people who need you to tell them the distro.

I use Mint on my Laptop but once Windows is done for I'm switching to:

  1. Fedora, OpenSUSE, Secureblue, or something with KDE Plasma (security, stability, and ease of use priority)
  2. Bazzite (for games, and dual-booted into to protect the security of my daily driver)
  3. OpenBSD or something (so if something like Crowdstrike or Wannacry happens but for Linux, I have an alt)
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I've never understood the fedora hype. The fact that it is adjacent to Redhat should be enough for people to want to stay away lol.

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