Right now I have Linux Mint Cinnamon running in a Virtual box. Tomorrow I'm going to run out to get an extra USB stick and try to run it from there to make sure everything works. The virtual box environment gives me weird quirks.
Ultimately I'm switching regardless because Windows has annoyed me that much, but I'm not super tech savvy so trying to take baby steps into it.
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I haven't played around with mint too much. Seemed pretty good though.
I ended up going with Ubuntu when I ditched windows in 2020.
windows is self imposed torture
It was never great, but I needed to know it well for work anyways and I'd rather be baking or gardening than be computer experimenting so I just never bothered learning anything else.
But it's just gotten worse and worse and worse that now I'm leading the whole permaculture guild away from it... Which feels a little like the blind leading the blind but hey we're trying our best 🤣
I tried Ubuntu around then as well but couldn't hack it; there was too much going on and I hadn't girded my loins enough for the transition. This time I'm emotionally committed and also taking the transition much slower so fingers crossed it sticks for me this time 🤣
I do like Mint more right now, it feels more like what I'm used to.
I always give this piece of advice, though now it might be outdated (I haven't used Windows since XP) : something working different than Windows doesn't mean it's bad or broken. Keep an open mind that the way things are done might be different, which sometimes will make you happy and sometimes will make you upset. But at the very least your computer will be yours and not a rental from Microsoft.
Exactly. I am committed and it's good that it's different because it's not going to nickle and dime me over things that used to be included completely. I passionately dislike Windows at this point 🤣
I've been using GNU/Linux since '98. Holler if you need help.
