Switching to Linux

PossiblyAxolotl

Have you ever thought of switching to Linux / have switched to Linux? What was your experience like? I wrote a post about mine here: https://blog.possiblyaxolotl.com/2024/12/26/one-month-on-linux :3

jase

The big reason I switched to Linux was because I got a virus on my windows dualboot and got scared of windows and just never went back to it. Also when I switched drives my install broke because windows is fragile and doesn't like when you dd it

Xan

I have barely used Linux outside of first getting started with a Raspberry Pi (like you!) and then some messing around with MX Linux/live boot USB drives (I don't think I ever installed Ventoy, but I have used Tails), servers, and VMs.
But I really love KDE Plasma! (And other software by KDE, like Kdenlive and Krita) The animations and huge amount of options are completely wonderful.

From most of what I've read online, a good distro pick is Fedora (atomic?) or a derivative, like Ultramarine Linux, Bazzite, or Nobara Linux. I thought to mention that after seeing that Ubuntu and its Snaps were causing a poor experience.

I think the latest version of Discord on Linux now supports screensharing with Wayland! I have not checked myself, but I recall watching a video or reading about it. Sticking with Vesktop is probably a good idea though; I use the same program on my laptop running Windows 11.

After reading an article on Microsoft's AI Recall feature, I thought it actually sounded like a great idea (as someone with ADHD 🗿) because the ability to search for anything you've seen digitally would probably be wonderful! I wonder how it could be implemented for Linux. (OpenRecall hasn't been updated for months!)

I'm glad to somehow gotten around the ugly OneDrive ramming its head upon Windows users. I disabled/uninstalled it when setting up my device, so I didn't lose any files! I've read horror stories from other people who weren't so lucky though...

In conclusion, I'd like to say that your blog post was a great read!
I thought to myself months ago, 'wow I should close all my tabs, finish editing & rendering some videos, backup my files and then install a linux distro with a KDE desktop, but never did. Now that I might be setting up a NAS server, maybe that could happen sooner than later!
(I need to setup a local git server under Forgejo so I can save version history of my Obsidian vault that's synced with Syncthing between my phone, server, and laptop. I accidentally copied and never pasted some todo list items, and I might never get them back! Or I could forget them, as they're kind of stuck in my memory: a video about Scratch... a video on the story of how I beat a streamer at a game he hadn't played for 4 years, after sending a link to https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy even though I had never used it - only seen or heard of it.)
This has been my biweekly/monthly forum post with many external links.

SergioEduP

On my main desktop I switched to Linux as soon as Valve released Proton, so that's about 6 years ago, but I've been using it for way longer on my laptops, I've just been fed up with Microsoft all the way back to Windows 8 (IMO Windows 7 was the last good version of Windows and you can't change my mind.) I run arch BTW 😆 , and funnily enough I work a bit opposite of you on the package management front, that is, I prefer to install flatpaks instead of system packages first, unless I know it's some software that benefits from not being containerized or has some problems running that way (or just straight up isn't available as a flatpak) for example I've had problems using software that need hardware acceleration as flatpak so I just install those as regular packages.
And yeah, learning to navigate the command line is a must, even though you can do pretty much anything on graphical interfaces nowadays being able to use commands let's you make everything much faster, troubleshoot much much easily (was able to figure out misbehaving hardware a couple of times with that) and, my favorite, automate pretty much everything!