Its time to switch to Linux!

  • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Yeah. Gotta find a distro soonish. My 3-4 year old laptop tried to update to W11 and has failed twice. Guess it doesn’t meet the hardware reqs. (Thank you RNGesus)

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      24 days ago

      Currently writing from a Mint laptop, works perfectly with minimal setup and no command line whatsoever, the only annoying thing is that the caps lock key behaves differently. Though Linux’s reputation is that it can probably be modded out.

      I also installed Diodon to recover the cool clipboard function that Windows has.

      I could probably get the customizeable start menu, but i actually don’t miss it that much

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      24 days ago

      I can vouch for mint, I picked it up recently after not touching Linux for almost 20 years and it was very intuitive and Windows-like. Haven’t dug very deep into it yet but it was at least easy to setup and get the necessities working

      • RangerJosie@lemmy.world
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        24 days ago

        Dude. I have a 2002 Dell laptop with Mint 16 on it.

        It’s completely unusable. Takes like 10 mins to open a browser. But it fuckin’ works. Its incredible.