I’ve been seriously considering switching to Mint or Ubuntu since they’re user friendly. The more I hear about win 11 the less and less I want anything to do with it.
also, my pc isn’t compatible so there’s that 😂
I gave up on windows 11 last week after my downloads folder decided to stop opening any more. Every other folder worked fine, and I could use a save dialogue to see and navigate inside downloads, but if I opened the folder run file explorer I was met woth a never ending “working on it…” Screen. Hours of trawling useless Microsoft posts to see its a common issue but none of the suggested fixes worked.
I installed Pop! OS, which is essentially Ubuntu but Ive heard works very well with games. Few small hiccoughs getting used to the UI paradigm shift but its motoring along now with no problems. My 5 year old desktop is running much smoother with less overall resource use too. Feels snappier.
Let me know what you think of it! I had some minor issues with my secondary hard drive, but they were entirely my fault, I had a lot of backups on it so didn’t initially reformat it from NTFS which I was using for windows to ext4 which is a native Linux format. It would sometimes not mount the drive on boot, but after transferring the backups to an external drive and reformatting the internal drive it was all good.
It’s why I’m gonna change to Linux permanently come the end of Win10.
Do it now. It’s great!
I’ve been seriously considering switching to Mint or Ubuntu since they’re user friendly. The more I hear about win 11 the less and less I want anything to do with it. also, my pc isn’t compatible so there’s that 😂
I gave up on windows 11 last week after my downloads folder decided to stop opening any more. Every other folder worked fine, and I could use a save dialogue to see and navigate inside downloads, but if I opened the folder run file explorer I was met woth a never ending “working on it…” Screen. Hours of trawling useless Microsoft posts to see its a common issue but none of the suggested fixes worked.
I installed Pop! OS, which is essentially Ubuntu but Ive heard works very well with games. Few small hiccoughs getting used to the UI paradigm shift but its motoring along now with no problems. My 5 year old desktop is running much smoother with less overall resource use too. Feels snappier.
The smoother part sounds very appealing. I will look into this distro. Thanks.
Let me know what you think of it! I had some minor issues with my secondary hard drive, but they were entirely my fault, I had a lot of backups on it so didn’t initially reformat it from NTFS which I was using for windows to ext4 which is a native Linux format. It would sometimes not mount the drive on boot, but after transferring the backups to an external drive and reformatting the internal drive it was all good.
That’s the reason I swapped.
So far it’s been a good switch
Just do it, it’s a perfectly functional os. Almost all of them.
Download the Mint live CD and give it a shot!
That is a great idea. And since my desktop is old as a dinosaur it still has a cd burner. So I’ll take it as a win LOL
The easiest distro I have used so far it’s Endeavour-Os (for my desktop). All my homelab uses debian except the mandatory W11 VM and a WS for veeam.
Endeavour-Os sounds appealing. I like easy!
The only realistic answer to the win11 situation. I chose bazzite because I like to game. It’s a dream, I never looked back.
I mean there’s also 0patch.
Same same, I just hope I can replace my dying PC before switching
I just did that, using Fedora KDE now, works great
I’m already rocking Manjaro, put my old windows boot drive in a box in case I need it for whatever reason.
Mint + a game-box user myself :-)
Sometimes there is an old soft inly working on windows, but they are getting more and more rare as they no monger work on windows… Fantastic.
Why wait? Switch now and get used to it.
I switched last August.
Say what you will but I’m kind of addicted to the PC Gamepass. I have to get through a backlog before I give it up.
That’s how they get you.