cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715
Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?
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Working nice, no real problems. I am using Fedora. Still forced to use a virtual windows machine (actually a docker image) to make python exe for windows and to use excel (via winapps).
Only thing I didn’t get to is to set a good backup strategy yo be able to easily restore previous state if anything broke. It’s possible but ask for too much time to do it properly. Which there was an alternative to macrium reflects for windows.
I know there is time machine but my sub volumes are not named the way time machine is expecting.
It would be nice to have an easy app setting it all up!Feels great!
like a breath of fresh air.
Linux is amazing using it for one year now. File explorer tabs is the best thing. Steam proton games works great. Updating software is no longer a nightmare. Big thanks to the Linux community. :)
Going great! Loaded up Fedora on my HP laptop which has given it a new lease on life. Only downside is that it won’t just boot straight into the OS, otherwise GRUB freezes (not dual booting, secure boot is off), so I have to spam F9 on startup and select linux to boot into, then it works fine.
Started self-hosting some things on an old desktop I had lying around, and am planning on moving from iPhone to Graphene with my next phone
won’t just boot straight into the OS, otherwise GRUB freezes (not dual booting, secure boot is off), so I have to spam F9 on startup
That would annoy me so much that I would switch bootloader or find a cmdline argument to fix it
I’ve been trying, but haven’t found anything. When I first turned off secure boot, it worked great, but stopped working again once I updated
Maybe it works if you add custom secure boot keys and sign your bootloader?
Not sure how to do this
I switched about a year ago. It’s going great. The only problem with my computer was because my RAM broke, but that would’ve still happened on Windows.
Switched from macOS a year ago due to end life support, got the hang of the system after distro hopping for a while
Now I use Manjaro on a handheld 😝 never using macOS or Windows againLove it (CachyOS). For the most part, everything “just works.” I have no plans to go back—not even wishful musings.
There have been a few…let’s call them…stnanks.
- Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, Tjunc, Tdie, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
- Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained
dkmsmodule for this specific (problematic) chipset came to my rescue. Pretty easy to get set up.
- Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained
- A small number of very specific games and mods don’t work on Linux. If you exclusively play competitive online games, there’s a good chance you are going to be out of luck.
- I have friends that play League, but I’m not willing to give up Linux just for that one game. Plenty of other multiplayer games out there that work just fine.
- Audio routing is both easier and more difficult.
- There’s great GUIs to manage audio connections.
- Trying to get automatic connections going, like with VoiceMeeter, is a lot more technical and involves learning Lua and Pipewire/Wireplumber. Not impossible, and audio tends to work just fine otherwise, but if you want a specific custom setup, it will take some effort.
Overall, I wouldn’t trade what I have for Microsoft any day of the week. I’m done being their product.
Recently learned about cachy and installed it yesterday to give it a try. I love it. It’s like arch, so that’s nice if you’re already familiar with arch, but a little less manual, and more functional out of the box; literally every bit of hardware wierdness on my 2in1 laptop just worked out of the box. Also, I love the fish terminal.
- Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, Tjunc, Tdie, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
A load of good experiences, but for the folks scared to answer your bad experience please do so as well. That way we many people can help you along 🙂
Doing great. Learned alot about Linux. I’m not that good at working with coding or so, but I love the help I can get from the Linux community. I’m on Fedora, because I liked their homepage, and because I had to start somewhere😁
works great. I’m struggling to even think of anything negative to say. KDE connect doesn’t work as well as I want between my laptop and PC? I really wish I could install something similar on my phone.
You can install KDE connect on your phone
Kde connect has some odd issues with routers, I’m suspecting the network swapping from 2.4g to 5g.
Switched the laptop to Linux Mint about 6 months ago. After a month of no problems with that, bit the bullet and installed it on my main Gaming PC. I don’t play anything that needs anti cheat and everything else has worked fine. Got VR streaming wireless to the Meta Quest 3 working and Sunshine/Moonlight setup to the Steam Deck for couch gaming.
I am a nerd though and have been using Linux from a server perspective for years. I still don’t know if it’s ready to suggest it to someone that is less technical, but it’s certainly getting there.
Perfectly ! Switched to Zorin for my gf laptop who couldn’t handle Windows anymore, decided to do it on my main PC as well and now am trying to revive an old mini-pc with the Lite version. Everything is fine, except for a short list of games (with anticheat like Vanguard or thing like this).
Switched from w11 to bazzite for personal use (still have to use windows for work) and it’s been great. Wish there were a few pieces of software with native Linux support so I could switch for work too.
Had dualboot for years but gaming on Linux finally got good enough to just… never boot Windows again. I need to delete it, it’s sitting there for a year now without booting. Switched from Endeavour to Cachy and I’m very happy with it. Everything just worked without configuring anything (and I have nvidia!). Didn’t switch on my notebook yet, which I mostly use for browser and chat on the sofa, mainly because I have quite a history with touchpad issues (also, it’s a M1 Mac, might need to give Asahi a bit more time).
Nobara has been great. I fucked it up once and had to do a full resinstall. I also tried Mint and Bazzite but ended up going back to Nobara. Only had to go boot into Windows a few times to use some old programs but pretty much everything else has been perfect for me.
