It took my old laptop dying on me for me to finally ask my geeky neighbor to install Mint on another laptop I had around.
It’s been a few hours and Omigod. Why did I waste so much time? It works. It’s easy and intuitive. It makes sense. There’s no bullshit.
I still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office, but whatever. The rest feels good and natural.
So please whoever is here because you’re contemplating switching: do it yesterday.
Lots of people are anti AI here, but Claude will tell you how to fix anything Linux. If you ever get an error, just copy and paste it.
Understanding how things work a little will make using Ai assistance much more reliable. If you have 0 knowledge & you are just pasting terminal commands without comprehending anything even a little bit is not really tenable long term, but I suppose if you plan to reinstall annually, it could be okay, given a mistake doesn’t wipe your drive.
So will nerds with too much time on their hands :3 (me)
same here
i’d love to volunteer for some kind of unix-like helpline! it would be lowkey fun
Don’t just run random commands though. Take a few seconds to understand what it does. If you still don’t understand, ask the AI to explain it.
That way you both learn how to do things yourself, and lower your risk of running harmful commands.
This. Have it explain and cite sources. Tools have uses, but you must know how to use them.
I’m curious. Since you are new to Linux, how did you stumble upon Lemmy and this community? :)
Lemmy because of the Reddit API debacle.
The Linux community because I’m a far-left activist who needs to get away from BigCorpo out of general principle, but I’d been using Windows since 3.0 and it was daunting.
enjoy. it can be frustrating until you get the hang of it, but once you do there’s no going back.
Mine didn’t die, but it’s Ryzen gen 1 which is not supported by Windows 11 so Cachy it is.
I had an old laptop that I didn’t swap over yet just because I had a few things set up and didn’t feel like moving it. It then harassed me to move to Windows 11. Also, when I tried to remote desktop, it was like, you gotta pay me for professional edition.
I’ve paid for Windows so many damned times, so I was like screw it and put Mint on it and donated to it as well.
just did it yesterday.
Got the purple kernel panic screen and figured i KILLED MY DESKTOP.
Second time all went well.
Very happyI still have to make Antidote talk to Libre Office
Antidote Connector for LibreOffice – Integrate Antidote writing assistance software with LibreOffice.
https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/99349Nice, thank you!
Congrats, that’s almost exactly how I felt when I switched a year or two ago. I did a bit of distro hopping after a few weeks, and quickly resettled on Bazzite, but it was a universal experience of stuff just working better without any bullshit I didn’t add myself.
It took my old laptop dying on me.
same here and it’s lead to me having a job for the last 24 years – i would have been a factory worker like my brother, cousins and father if it weren’t for my computer dying on me.
consult https://distrowatch.com/ if your interested in what different distros might have to offer.
When I feel it’s time to spread my wings. I’m still stuck on Libre Office freezing whenever I ctr-tab between windows. Baby steps, unfortunately.
Try OnlyOffice (the appimage). It’s more compatible than LibreOffice for MS formats. Alternatively, consider downloding the LibreOfficeFresh appimage, which is the latest version (Linux Mint’s is 2 years old). When you download an .AppImage file, you right click it, Properties, and you mark it as executable. Then, run it. Always download appimages from the developer’s source site, not from third parties.
AppImage may be up-to-date now, but it has no self update mechanism, so a Flatpak is a better choice IMO
I personally can’t stand flatpaks, they’re too large to update its libs every few days. On a 4 MB/sec line that I’m, it’s not a good option.
I mean, nobody’s forcing you to update them every day, and you can always schedule it off hours.
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Not sure what an appimage is, but I picked OnlyOffice in what’s called Logithèque in French, and maybe Software manager (or “repository”) in English? Main menu / Administration / Logithèque.
After an in-depth trial of at least 4 minutes, I can say I love it, and it works fine.
You now have the unending gratitude of a random French woman.I’ll try it asap. Libre Office freezes every minute or so, actually, and not only when I change windows. It’s unusable as is. Thanks for your advice.
