...and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I'm mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
Congrats!
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I have mint on two laptops and I want to install it on my desktop but right now I have too much work to do and can not get a couple of days to install it and set it up the way I want. I have a lot of files I need to move first.
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Congrats!
Welcome!
Welcome aboard! Now start fighting about which distro is best with more passion than trying to convince folks to switch to Linux
Enjoy!
I won't be going to W11, but I'm looking for ease of use with gaming in mind. Mint will likely be my first go at it.
Whatever you go for, make sure drivers are up to date. Anything pulling directly from the Debian repos requires manual installation for Nvidia drivers later than v525.x.x.
Not that doing so is hard, its just tedious and tbh I don't expect the average new user to have a firm enough grasp of everything going on to handle it smoothly.
Mint is fine. Some people like Fedora, but its sluggish on some hardware. I'm a fan of my arch Based distributions personally, but I don't recommend pure arch to a newbie (endeavor maybe, but even then expect to do a ton of reading)
If you're looking for something to tinker and learn with, something more advanced might be good.
I usually recommend something that is immutable if you're looking for a set and forget system that won't require much (if any) tinkering.
In my house we use Arch, LMDE, and FreeBSD (do not recommend unless you prefer to live at a terminal)
Appreciate the advice. I may want to tinker someday, and do have the skill to do it, but I do not currently have the interest to tinker. Someday perhaps, but for now I will take the suggestion of looking at immutables!
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Now if you have a problem people will just tell you to get good.
Hey so I just got my first raspberry pi what's the laziest possible way to put an n00bs on my Sim card
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I use rhel for work and want to use something similar for my PC.. is fedora the most rhel like or is centos still worth investing time in?
Fedora is absolutely the better choice between those two. Much bigger community, more suited for desktop use in the first place (CentOS is more of a server OS), frequent updates, great starting point for modern hardware. You may also consider a modified one like Bazzite or Nobara if you have an nvidea GPU (because they have drivers built-in).
I main Fedora 42 KDE and NVidia. Drivers are definitely not out of the box, but I found them easy enough to install by adding a repository. Just a data point for consideration.
took me a few gos to make the switch permanently. i wouldnt go back if you paid me though
Upvote brigaded your last day, congratulations on your deshittification!
I'm glad you did.