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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] Schortl@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Had the completly oposite experience: mint installed in 2 hours with everything working. No bloatware, no bullshit. Biggest obstacle was, that changing the device bootorder is nog enough- uefi seetings needed some love to. I can imagine that this is not necessery if you do not use dual boot ( like win....talking about experience...)

For me everything works perfect- mint is my primary os now

[โ€“] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, a quick update.

After posting, and a little soul-searching, I decided to install Ubunu and give things another try.

Installation failed the first time, seemingly right at the end! Tried again, and it went through.

Set things up, and things seem to be OK. I'm only running a browser, and needed to try a paid windows program through Wine, which installed and loaded up without any real issues.

I go for a walk during lunch. Come back to the Linux login screen (expected, as I'd assume it locks like Windows). Log in... blank slate. All my work was closed, and it was like a fresh reboot. What the hell??? No error messages or anything. I literally have the browser and like a few other programs installed, so it's not like the system is a mess from years of bad software installations.

Sigh...

Then I try another paid Windows program used to convert video files. It seems to work, but it's not detecting my Intel graphics card. As I look for help on how to do this (officially, from my Laptop vendor), I get pages and pages of things to try... all through the terminal.

I mean, this is stuff that just works on Windows. No messing with stuff.

I really want Linux to be my daily driver, and even I type this from Ubuntu, I can't help but feel like something is going to catastrophically self-destruct at any moment, and that kind of anxiety is never felt while using Windows.

I couldn't imagine setting linux up for my wife, if this is the experience I'm having.