Me after using the KDE: how the fuck Linux is better Windows than Windows?
They were supposed to focus on window managing, ITS IN THEIR FUCKING NAME. Instead you need extra things like Powertoys for basic functions that KDE has integrated.
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KDE is the best desktop environment I've ever had the pleasure of using. So much better than Windows at everything I want out of my desktop!
The only thing that sucks about switching to linux is moving my external NTFS USB drives to my new linux server.
Linux HATES NTFS, hates usb drivers, and hates external drives that aren't formatted to ext4. fstab doesn't work for my WD Elements, so i just gave up and shucked the drive and put it inside.
I can't fit 5 3.5" hard drives in my SFF dell 3070, so i'm stuck on windows right now, but they keep doing random updates the last few weeks and my windows explorer freezes constantly and my computer barely works. So i'm going to have to switch to linux and possibly reformat all 36TB's to ext4. Not excited about that at all.
So either reformat all my external drives, buy a very expensive NAS with an external SATA port and hope my motherboard recognizes them.
Eh? I've never had a problem with reading NTFS drives in linux, including USB sticks and SATA/USB adapters. Are you just wanting to read them or use them as read/write? Write is a bit more tricky, requiring ntfs-3g, but most reasonable distros come with that nowadays.
Yeah, you will generally have a better time with exFAT, which is a format both Windows and Linux works with well. All my external drives get formatted as such.
Just be forewarned:
Nvidia requires a bit of work.
SeLinux….it is a giant bag of gotcha.
That all said I’m not regretting my conversion.
I use Linux Mint and Nvidea and never had any problem what so ever with it. But maybe i just have been lucky.
I use Linux Mint and Nvidea and never had any problem what so ever with it. But maybe i just have been lucky.
I use Linux Mint and Nvidea and never had any problem what so ever with it. But maybe i just have been lucky.
Me no use Mint, but the only problem I get is the sleep bug (waking from sleep results in a black screen). I've looked into it a few times and all I can assume is it's probably nvidia so I gave up on solution hunting and pray one day it's fixed (it's getting slightly better over the years or maybe thats a placebo idk, it seems to fully break quite rarely now).
After my pc sleeps I usually have to switch sessions with ctrl+alt+ then back to the one running KDE and it (nvidia?) revives itself and I can keep working on watching my movies.
Just sharing my experience because mby someone smart here is thinking "yo yur dumb just do this", but honest it's not a big deal for me anymore.
Oh wait I wanna add that apart from this (tiny in my opinion) bug, everything esle has been smooth, even some gaming (it's possible im in a rare state to be getting this bug since I haven't reinstalled my root partition in like 5+ years, even tho I have swapped distros a couple times).
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