This is just to share my experience with everyone, especially the people still undecided.

I was planning the switch for months, and finally had a couple hours undisturbed from the wife and the kids :)

It was a slightly rocky start, as my USB wifi receiver did not have native drivers, but with wired internet and the official Mint tutorial the rest of the transition was super smooth.

The OS install went flawlessly and within an hour I had all the basic programs, browser and utilities up and running. I love that I just download the app from the dedicated place, no pointless web surfing for the latest versions.

I backed up my steam folder (with the rest of my files of course), so after installing the steam client and some quick synchronization I had my installed games library back in minutes. I did some testing and everything works great. As I own a steam deck I already had some experience with games not running natively on Linux, but a saw many great tutorials for beginners. I cant wait to test out some more games!

Edit: thank you for all the positivity and great feedback! I know Lemmy users love Linux and I have to admit I feel a little bit more included :D

Who knows, maybe I will start warching Star Trek next…

  • WeebLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    That’s great to hear! I am still dual booting mint and windows but I am slowly moving towards being fully on mint. I recommend checking out Lutris if you have games on other stores, it also works well with running windows games.

      • lemmy_99c4zb3e3@reddthat.comEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Also check bottles, it is available on flathub the largest repository of flatpaks. Flatpaks are inter-distribution packages. Just note that not all of them have to be provided by the developers and there may be proprietary programs. It makes flathub richer in software than the official repository of some distributions. There are only GUI apps. They are sandboxed (usually, see permissions). If you are curious about how secure flathub is compared to the official repository then watch this.