• addie@feddit.uk
    8·
    12 days ago

    Upgraded my father-in-law from Windows 10 to Linux Mint last week. I use Arch btw on all my stuff, but that’s no beginner’s distro. He’s very pleased - basically used it for browsing and some light office work, has hardly noticed the difference. One more person off Windows forever.

  • Anarchotron666@lemmy.world
    5·
    12 days ago

    I changed to Linux a few months ago. I’m using Linux Mint and gaming has been pretty easy, no major problems whatsoever. I had some struggles regarding audio with recording and playing guitar. At first I had the urge to distrohop but now I just use my pc daily without even thinking about the OS.

  • Egonallanon@feddit.uk
    4·
    12 days ago

    Yeah I made the switch and finally moved my daily driver of to kubuntu and it’s been surprisingly painless. Only thing I’ve really struggled with is finding a music player I like.

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      12 days ago

      Welcome!🐧 Personally I like seeing giant album covers and synced lyrics with mpv, idk if it might work for you. Not a music library program tho

    • rozodru@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 days ago

      yeah it’s weird cause the music player thing was also a hang up for me too. I liked cmus cause it was simple but some of the things in it annoyed me. I liked Audcacious or whatever its’ called cause I could install old winamp skins on it.

      Eventually though I just ended up making my own TUI that has all the features I personally want. This seems to be a theme for me and linux. I always find things that have features I like but their separate apps so then I just combine all those features into something I build myself.

  • MrSmith@lemmy.world
    51·
    11 days ago

    I envy the people who live a life that enables them to just ditch Windows like that.

    One day…

  • whosepoopisonmybutt@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    12 days ago

    Windows 11 is enshitified enough to be annoying and loaded with government and corporate spyware enough to be alarming. Meanwhile, Linux has become user friendly, optimized for everything but the latest hardware and capable of running most games.