Picture of my daily driver machine installing openSUSE.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    24 days ago

    If you’re still on the fence about switching to Linux, try downloading a Live Linux USB image and booting it from a USB stick. This lets you try out Linux without changing anything on your Windows drive. The Live version will also let you see if Linux detects all your computer’s hardware before you install it for real.

    I recommend Linux Mint for beginners.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
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      23 days ago

      I had already done that before pulling the trigger. I used Obsidian to get a listing of distros and then took notes as I tested them on my Lenovo Yoga 720 laptop. Obviously, not the same as my daily gaming rig, but it gave me a good enough approximation for how well I’d like some of the distros I tried. In the end it was Mint Cinnamon (currently installed on my Yoga) or openSUSE. I eventually had to reinstall openSUSE last night when KDE started giving me trouble. It’s probably the last time I try KDE for a while. I just don’t seem to have good luck with it all three times I’ve tried it across different distros.

      Either way GNOME is working great this morning and I’m working on getting stuff customized!!

    • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      24 days ago

      I agree on trying the live boot first. I played around with the live boot for a week, and ended up installing mint as dual boot when I got frustrated about not being able to save files, save settings etc. I was barely using Windows at that point.

  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    4·
    24 days ago

    Welcome to the club! I installed Open Sousa Tumbleweed this summer.

    (It’s similar to OpenSUSE, but has a marching band theme by default. This is totally a real thing, and it wasn’t just a speech to text failure.)

  • Bombastic@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    24 days ago

    Tumbleweed

    Beyond based

    PS. If you plan on only using Wayland, you still need to have X11 installed. Don’t ask me why, don’t ask me how, I only know that without X11 my system would only login to shell

  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
    2·
    24 days ago

    Welcome to the light side. I’m a happy Tumbleweed user for many years now. Love that Hitchhiker’s guide reference .

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    2·
    23 days ago

    OpenSuse is a left field choice. Nothing wrong with it - just not a typical first distro. Hope you have a great time with it! I recommend using it for a solid month then working on a windows pc for a day - you’ll be blown away by how asinine windows is once you’ve got used to Linux.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
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      23 days ago

      You said it. I used openSUSE on my Lenovo Yoga 720 for a bit. That’s now running Mint Cinnamon and I’m digging’ it.

    • alexei_1917 [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 days ago

      you’ll be blown away by how asinine windows is once you’ve got used to Linux.

      This, absolutely. I really hate Linux sometimes. But then I have to deal with Windows, which I hate even more. It’s not that I like Linux. It’s that I like it more than Windows.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    24 days ago

    Great to see another person moving to Linux and OpenSuSE. My only caution if this is your first time with Linux is that a point release like OpenSuSE Leap is probably a better place to start than Tumbleweed. I’m on Tumbleweed and it’s generally good but I have had a few things break over the last couple of years, often fixed at next update in fairness but it is frustrating even as an experienced user. I have also had to reinstall Tumbleweed on one occasion; it wasn’t a big deal as I’d set up a separate Home and System partition. Tumbleweed is great but it is a rolling release and even though it’s a well tested one rolling releases are always riskier in terms of things breaking.