Finally managed to kill the procrastination and switch today. It was smooth and simple. My life is almost entirely unchanged by this step.
I read through the comments, and didn’t see what DE you chose, so I’m just wondering which DE you chose?
I went default with debian 13. Spent 10 minutes trying to figure out why I had no desktop then discovered DEs :).
Thinking xfce. Do you have any other recommendations?
How powerful is your rig? If it’s reasonable and not 1k years old, you could go with any. I’m quite partial to cosmic, but kde is also good. If you feel like tinkering, gnome can be made usable with extensions.
But yeah, cosmic is great. Xfce is good for low end rigs.
Debian I think it was
DE, not distro. I’m gonna go and guess it was the default.
sudo welcome
What distro have you chosen?
Asking this on Lemmy is like asking OP what religion is correct.
I started off with the vanilla ice cream (good enough, no one’s favourite) Debian…
Let the crusaders rise ⚔️
Hey, some of us love Debian!
Debian rules
Thats a respectable choice.
The biggest reason to switch to Linux is because it’s boring. The biggest reason not to switch to Linux is because it’s boring.
Pretty cool that your life was unchanged though. Seems crazy, but that’s been the dream.
Boring is exactly what I need. I configured my installation just right and it’s been great since 2022.
Boring is exactly what you need for something to function as expected. I wouldn’t want my pc to suddenly feel exciting, or give me a surprise.
Boring is good.
Idk, I found it quite the opposite of boring to tweak all the little knobs and dials Linux has to offer. But to be fair, using the CLI won’t excite that many users.
What did you switch to and why is it not Hannah Montana Linux?
It was a toss up between debian and Ubuntu, so I decided to race them against each other in the download window and see which one won. Debian 13 just took the cake! Let’s see how long it stays…
Debian is a good choice, I would encourage you to never touch Ubuntu or any of it’s derivatives.
Why?
The short answer is to just search for reasons why people don’t like Ubuntu. They are many, and varied.
FWIW, Ubuntu used to be seen as the default choice, and these days there are just so many better options.
Debian is an excellent choice. I run Debian KDE on one of my computers.
Temple OS
RIP Terry Davis. Wish he’d gotten the help he needed
Seriously. If he would’ve been able to properly focus his brain properly… man. What could’ve been, ya know?
+1 Hannah Montana Linux. Has been the most satisfying, user friendly and stable distro ever. In an ideal world, we all would be using Hannah Montana Linux.
It really gives you the best of both worlds.
I did this just over a year ago. I expected it not to change much. It was surprisingly simple. The only thing that changed is I am no longer annoyed with windows, and am actually enjoying my OS. Makes my hardware seem much faster too.
Congrats, and welcome!
Yeah I can see this being the path. As I don’t game frequently anymore, I can’t see any huge obstacles popping up.
Even if you did game, it’s pretty much a non-issue now as long as the game doesn’t have anticheat.
Gaming isn’t even much of an obstacle now anyway.
I’m in the same boat. Just got a Framework 13 pro and installed both windows and Linux. Currently in Windows for client use. Looking forward to getting more familiar with Ubuntu again. I used to run Linux on a USB stick to get around limitations on my work laptop.
Great news! Very happy for you. The hardest part of my switch was settling on a distro, and then setting up a dual boot with windows because I was told that I’d have programs or hardware or banking apps that wouldn’t work. But honestly, everything worked, and I never once booted back into windows. Even my Starbucks drinking uggs wearing wife asked me to switch her computers to linux and she hasn’t looked back either.
I did the dual boot setup with Win10 and Ubuntu during my initial foray into Linux about 8 years ago and liked it until the boot loader got messed up and prevented me from loading Ubuntu anymore; I eventually just gave up on trying to fix. Apparently this is something that Windows is doing unless you make special provisions to protect against it. In the end, it was the forced obsolescence of Win10 that drove me back to Linux and I am super happy on Fedora after trying and failing to get Mint to work to my satisfaction.
Boring and just working are exactly what I want my OS to do. Open source options are proving to be effective or even superior to what I was using before and I have even switched my kid over to Linux already. My wife wasn’t having any of it though so I painfully migrated her to Win11 and had to purchase or get subs for her daily-use applications that worked fine on Win10.
Sorry your experience wasn’t as issue free as mine was. But I’ve heard others complain that certain win updates break the option to boot into linux, so your not the only one who suffered from that.
Nice! Yeah that initial “Let me just do it” is such a big thing to overcome when you’re all up and working.
The motivation came from a used robot vacuum cleaner I bought, which needed a Linux system to root/install valutedo. It was the motivation I needed to bite the bullet!
Good job!!
For me it was actually life changing and made me love computing again like when I was a kid. But I’m glad it was smooth and boring for you haha. It stresses me out sometimes but its all my own doing. My friends think my computing setup is bonkers lol
yeah when I did it I kinda looked back and wished I had done it a few years sooner.
Isn’t it weird when you finally get around to something you’ve been meaning to do and you finally do it and it’s like “oh wow! Okay… uh… now what? I guess I… go to the same sites as before. In the same browser as before. But here now…”
Right?!!
You can’t say that without telling us your distro so we can tell you that you should try our favorite one as well.
Debian :) I don’t have or run anything cutting edge, so I don’t need anything exciting. Let’s see how long I stay!
Nice! You’ll never have to think about your os again. Did you go with kde?
Default, so no kde yet. Was looking into xfce, any reason you prefer kde?
Welcome to the team!
I decided to try it on a spare netbook 16 years ago and Linux swallowed me whole… it still is a fun ride
