Don't feel bad about the distro you land on, especially not Linux Mint. It's the #1 distro I recommend to completely new Linux users.

I use it myself for any computer that I want a #JustWorks experience on. The Cinnamon desktop environment is super stable and easy to use. And so far, Linux Mint is the only distro I know of where you truly don't have to use the terminal for anything even kernel updates/rollbacks, alternative driver installations, and major version upgrades.

The Mint team is wonderful and they've created a fantastic product.

Real. 😢

It was kil

And at the time I was at house eating dorito

If your computer isn’t very old, you should give Fedora a try. I recommend using Ventoy to try some different live ISOs, so you don’t need to commit to installing anything without trying it first.

Moved my three laptops to Ubuntu, Mint and Zorrin. A week later I’m still dealing with issues setting them up.

dunno about zorin, but what's the issues with ubuntu/mint?

And yeah, a lot of the time people will oversell the amount of progress made with linux for noobs, it's come a long way and those OSes *should* be foolproof, but tricky and unsupported hardware be tricky and unsupported.

Doesn't help that some things are massive traps, like dual graphics card when at least one of them is NVidia, removing support for existing things via early wayland adaptation, etc etc.

"But it works on my thinkpad! ™️" Well , not everyone bought a thinkpad/found one next to the trash.

Luanti is great, but since the topic is about switching to Linux I feel the need to point out that Minecraft Java has been running on Linux I think from the very beginning. I use prism launcher when the kids feel like playing. The setup is more complicated than using the official Linux launcher, but it is more stable.

Omg, I'd never heard of luanti... it looks freakin awesome!! Thank you!

Or otherwise dnf upgrade

I don't know if these would do the trick, but could be worth a shot? https://github.com/fwfa123/linuxtrackx-ir

I've never heard of TrackIR before now.

And Tobii!

I honest to god do not think it's any harder than Windows. You're just used to the quirks and skills necessary to deal with Windows shit.

Windows 10 on a shitbox!!!! You and I have very different definitions of that - lol. The 'shitboxes' I have (two of them) find it difficult to run even Windows 7, but Linux zooms on it like a breeze.

I know the frustration though. I sometimes use cracked software - mostly for learning new stuff as a hobby (CAD programming, designing etc) and they come only on Windows, SOo....

But these days free and open source have also come up so beautifully. FreeCAD is like this whole new thing entirely, so are LibreOffice, Inkscape, GIMP, LibreCAD, Scribus, Blender (never used this one though). Using LibreOffice has made it next to impossible for me to use MSOffice. But yes I do need that one or two shitty proprietary things because, just because...