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Mint feels like if XP was still around but it never wanted to talk to me

I switched to Linux Mint and lemme tell you: I'd constantly notice and scorn Windows 1x, Mint has been nothing but good to me.

you should be a Linux Evangelist because it is the objectively correct stance to hold.

If you end up explaining it to them just tell them Android is linux and that they already use it.

it's literally kde plasma to be clear <3

God bless

you're not gonna believe what I am doing right now

i love my old thinkpad running Debian stable. it's such a piece of shit: battery lasts 20 minutes, disk is constantly at 99% capacity, hasn't had a software update in six months, etc yet I still end up using it regularly, because it Just Works

I think we're 80% to 90% there, though. Steam mostly just works with all my games. You can even get heroic to run games from other hubs like Epic. It's incresible how well games work out of the box these days. But maintaining linux on modern hardware takes knowledge and imo the "rtfm" bros kill it.

Oh my God this is exactly what I need thank you for this information

If you're a Windows power user you practically need terminal knowledge anyway to keep the damn thing stable for long periods of time... so many weird bugs, tweaks and quality of life features that are best run in a command window or powershell

fuckin around with my hyprland dots takes me back to tinkering with Litestep in the WinXP days and man, I didn't realize how much I missed that

YES! YES! OH MY GOD

Unless you play some specific games with anticheat there is a good chance all your games works ootb If you play mostly indie games like Disco Elysium there are native ports Some popular games like fortnite don't work, others like Warframe are officialy supported areweanticheatyet.com

Then switch out of windows. www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

I *am* a Linux evangelist, but only because I care about my friends and it makes me sad to see them suffering needlessly.

The fun part about remembering this if you were hacking in the early 2000s is that when you come back to it a lot of the annoying problems have been fixed. If stable doesn't have what you need you can always add support for testing and use specific packages from there.

[I'm about to put linux on a hand-me-down T430 (because obvs) and I'm a debian stable lifer on the server but have been wondering if there's a distro that's a little fancier in terms of GUI while having solid hardware support and also Is Debian.]

ill do it eventually probably

It's always a Thinkpad

I don't know if Debian is the thing I would recommend to people. I consider it more of an intermediate difficulty, not for big reasons just little pain points. The big one being obviously new hardware support.

Please no, though I agree with you. “Stable debian on a spare thinkpad” is ultra galaxy brain solution here

The problem is I have to use MS products at work and switching back and forth is tiring. I'm only willing to do it because I have an at home Linux engineer for tech support.

system76 gets a biggups from me

TIL! That’s cool. Never seen anything at Microcenter so figured it didn’t exist

My thinkpad came with linux, it's great!

Yeah but my thinkpad lasts maybe fifteen seconds off the charging cable….

I found that disabling Flipping in the Nvidia settings solved that issue entirely.

Yeah it was 11 that finally drove me to Linux.

i recently got fedora kinoite which is one of their immutable desktop distros. genuinely amazing, its so fast and convenient. the limitations are real but if you draw, write, or just use browser + filesystem its perfect. only short point is music prod with a DAW. fl was too expensive not to use..

its only occuring to me tonight that people dont know this and im losing my god damn mind

KDE and rice it to your heart's content!

i3 gaps go zoom 🏎️

Debian stable on my desktop and my laptop and a console for gaming and I have zero regrets.