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I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 14 hours ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So i was surprised today when my fiancee told me she was thinking about switching over to linux. Surprised because she is absolutely not technically minded, but also because she was weary about having Microsoft AI slop forced on her PC every update. ( i'm so proud!)

Now i've used a little linux but i've always been a holdout. Won't stop me from moving someone else over but i have too much going on in my setup to deal with that right now. So i'm not super versed but i was able to give her the basic rundown of what distros are, concerns when switching, what may and may not be available, shes still on board so we're doing this! Knowing her she would like to not have to transition too much, whats something fairly hands off and easy to learn. I've heard some good things about mint from hanging around you nerds the past few years but also some not so good things, any suggestions?

next concern is what kind of transfer process is this going to be? i have some spare HDD's so we can try and get everything ported over but i'm so busy with school right now i can't quite allocate the time to really deep dive this.

Any help is appreciated, cheers!

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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm on KDE as a former Windows and Mint user and it's really annoying. Especially the text editor Kate. All the hotkeys are different than Windows/Mint, there's no notepad equivalent and only a notepad++ equivalent, the GNOME text editor doesn't match the theming, and I had to settle on Mousepad for my replacement.

I had to do a lot of customization to get the system to behave like Windows, particularly the panel. Maybe with ZorinOS it's better.

[–] missphant@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

there's no notepad equivalent and only a notepad++ equivalent

I believe you're looking for KWrite.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Thank you, that's exactly what I've been looking for. Wasn't bundled with Kubuntu (or maybe it was but I uninstalled it because I thought it was Wordpad) and didn't come up when searching for it in the Discover app, but after going to the official site and opening a link in the Discover app I got it installed. I then accidentally uninstalled it because uninstalling Kate does that.

Now to look up how to clean up the start menu so searching for a text editor doesn't give me the uninstalled Mousepad or it's separate settings app (I did it with a 5 second duckduckgo search).

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

Dunno if kubuntu comes with it, but do you have an app called "main menu"?