Skip Navigation
Buy European @feddit.uk
sidtirouluca @lemm.ee

How is your Linux Adventure going?

Probably like many of you i switched to Linux. I first used it in 2012 when i heard about it in School. Back then i used Ubuntu, but could not figure it out how to play my Games on CD, DVDs and Steam so i switched back to Windows.

Over the Years i often tried it out again but had various problems with it.

Now, thanks to the Trump Donald, i have a real reason to no longer use Microshaft Proudcts. Our Boycott!

So far i tried Linux Mint, KDE Neon, Kubuntu, ZorinOS, PopOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Gnu Guix, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Arch, Antergos. That is over 10 years.

What i found out:

  • i dont like gnome, i find the ui weird. xfce is too cobbled together imo and ugly, lxqt too.
  • i like kde and budgie
  • im currently on kubuntu and gnu guix :)

Linux is kind of hard coming from windows, but i wont switch back now. It is more than just using a OS, it is now a mindset: more independent Europa! Maybe i will even switch to OSS that is made by European Firms and Developers, afterall if i donate i want my money to stay in Europa.

32 comments

  • I've settled on a few distros depending on use case and I use linux for most of my PC related stuff. I do keep a Windows partition on almost every machine though. Just for the odd github project that only supports Windows, some games or if anything happened to my Linux partition and I need to use my machine in a hurry I could still boot into that. Don't always have a bootstick with me.

    I'm right there with you regarding desktop environments. Xfce is fine for older machines but I've found that Kanotix (debian based distro optimised for slow hardware and live sessions that has a kde version) runs well on pretty much anything.

    Also fyi Kubuntu and KDE Neon are extremely similar under the hood but kde components tend to work better with the latter, especially using wayland. Just in case you run into trouble down the line.

  • Some years ago, after a few failed attempts, I made the switch from Windows to Linux. I used Gentoo Linux on my computer for a few years. After that, I ended up switching to the Apple lands, and a couple of years ago back to Windows. Been thinking of switching back to Linux for a while, and thanks to the nonsense and sense that this year has brought, I am back to using Linux.

    At first, I wanted to see how gaming is on Linux, and specifically on my machine. Figured the easiest way to do that is by installing Linux on an external SSD drive. I chose Linux Mint for that installation. Turns out, gaming is great on Linux nowadays. I haven't had any issues with the few games I have played. I was chosen into a closed beta of a game, and even that game works perfectly - even though it isn't even released yet. On Mint, I only had some audio problems outside of games.

    I bought a new larger NVMe drive from Goodram IRDM (European manufacturer, btw) to install Linux on. I chose Artix, an Arch derivative, as my flavor of Linux. So far, I haven't had any problems with it. Windows still resides on my old drive in case I happen to need it for something, but I haven't used it after I installed Mint on that external drive.

  • It's going fine. Switched around 5 years ago, after using Apple products since the mid-80s. Switched to Mint, after trying a couple other distros. Mint ticks all the boxes for me ;)

    I have no desire to move back to Apple. even though I do miss some features (Spotlight, for example) being fully in control of my computer and software is priceless. And so is my freedom to use my computer however I fancy without anyone having a word to say about that.

    I still use an iPhone, though. Not much, but I do use it...

  • My switching started with dual booting Ubuntu and Windows but I quickly realised that I only wanted to use Ubuntu so then I removed windows from my laptop. Then I started looking around and tried Manjaro for a while and also had a short look at Mint but it was too close to windows for me.

    Then I heard of immutable atomic distros and liked the concept so I used Vanilla OS, Fedora Silverblue and finally landed on Aeon which I currently use and am very happy with. I like that you have a stable clean base system and all the stuff you want to try out lives in containers and can easily be removed.

    Recently I installed and tuned Arch with Hyprland on a second PC and also like that a lot but am unsure if I want to move away from atomic updates on my main laptop. I just really like that there is always at least one snapshot that you can boot into which works and you will robably never be locked out of your system entirely.

  • PikaOS (Debian unstable + gaming) with KDE is rocking my world right now. Linux has come so far. I've daily-driven Linux a few times and always fell off the train eventually, because I always felt like I ended up fighting it, but it's never felt as good and reliable as it does now.

  • I’ve been at it for about three years now. Started with Pop!_OS for my first try. Back then I had a laptop with an Nvidia GPU and I had a ton of problems using a secondary monitor. I ended up switching to Linux Mint, and In cinnamon, games would open on the wrong screen and I didn’t know of any easy way to force them to another screen. I later had the same issues with KDE and Gnome on a variety of distros. Eventually I came across EndeavourOS, and my dual monitor issues were mostly solved, but I still had a lot of quirks with the eventual adoption of Wayland.

    Then I bought a desktop. A full AMD rig, Ryzen 7 7800x3d and a Sapphire 7800xt Nitro+. This changed everything. I had no idea how much easier things would be without being hamstrung by Nvidia.

    I ended up spending a solid year running Fedora Workstation (Gnome) and loved it until I decided forcing gnome to look the way I wanted it to made it too unstable. Time to try a tiling WM. I tried an install of Fedora with Hyprland and always had issues with it. So I remembered my old friend EndeavourOS. I installed it without a DE, installed Hyprland with some preconfigured dot files to start from, and holy shit. This is gonna be home for a while. Sooooo incredibly smooth, positively gorgeous, insanely snappy and stable.

    I’m really grateful for all the lessons along the way. The distros mentioned above probably only account for 15% of my distrohopping experimentation, and the problem solving taught me tons of things I wouldn’t have learned otherwise. Linux is meant to be explored and savored.

  • I switched to Mint on my laptop about a month ago and so far it is nice, except that i mostly have no sound but sometimes randomly do. I am not a computer person so i am still too scared to also install it on my desktop. Maybe some day

  • Linux Mint at first, but then wanted to see what all the rage over KDE was about. Now I'm happily using Fedora on my Framework 13 with the only issues being either AMD (flickering screen) or Framework (broken charge limit) bugs.

32 comments