cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34247715
Curious on the experiences of those recently migrating to Linux from Windows 10, Intel-based MacOS, etc. How is it being on Linux? Anything surprise or frustrate you?
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It’s a breath of fresh air and a real productivity boost. It’s been ages since I’ve been so enthusiastic and passionate about pc’s.
Vast improvements. No regrets. Still working through a few growing pains, though.
What are the few growing pains?
Tell you what, I’ll just link a couple of recent posts/comments from elsewhere:
These few month been relatively smooth sailing. Lot of unlearning and recognizing just how limiting windows was in comparison.
I tried helping a friend with windows recently and immediate felt like I was back in the gulag, so yeah I think Im here for good
Love it (CachyOS). For the most part, everything “just works.” I have no plans to go back—not even wishful musings.
There have been a few…let’s call them…stnanks.
- Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, Tjunc, Tdie, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
- Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained
dkmsmodule for this specific (problematic) chipset came to my rescue. Pretty easy to get set up.
- Thankfully, the Arch wiki and a thanklessly maintained
- A small number of very specific games and mods don’t work on Linux. If you exclusively play competitive online games, there’s a good chance you are going to be out of luck.
- I have friends that play League, but I’m not willing to give up Linux just for that one game. Plenty of other multiplayer games out there that work just fine.
- Audio routing is both easier and more difficult.
- There’s great GUIs to manage audio connections.
- Trying to get automatic connections going, like with VoiceMeeter, is a lot more technical and involves learning Lua and Pipewire/Wireplumber. Not impossible, and audio tends to work just fine otherwise, but if you want a specific custom setup, it will take some effort.
Overall, I wouldn’t trade what I have for Microsoft any day of the week. I’m done being their product.
Recently learned about cachy and installed it yesterday to give it a try. I love it. It’s like arch, so that’s nice if you’re already familiar with arch, but a little less manual, and more functional out of the box; literally every bit of hardware wierdness on my 2in1 laptop just worked out of the box. Also, I love the fish terminal.
- Not all of the sensors were recognized for my motherboard out of the box. The important ones, like basic CPU temp and a few others were fine, but more granular ones, like fan speed, Tjunc, Tdie, etc. were missing. I like to apply my own fan curves based on various sensor conditions, so this was a sticking point initially.
Honestly it worked so well I often forget I’m a new user
Switched from w11 to bazzite for personal use (still have to use windows for work) and it’s been great. Wish there were a few pieces of software with native Linux support so I could switch for work too.
Linux is amazing using it for one year now. File explorer tabs is the best thing. Steam proton games works great. Updating software is no longer a nightmare. Big thanks to the Linux community. :)
amazing, best thing I’ve done (although I’m not a fan of bazzite) but besides bazzite, the best thing. never looking back.
It just works… nothing bothering me, no annoying bullshit. it all just works as expected
I switched over a decade ago. It was great. Since then Windows has only gotten worse and Linux and its desktops have only gotten better. It’s wild to me people still need to ask this.
Nobara has been great. I fucked it up once and had to do a full resinstall. I also tried Mint and Bazzite but ended up going back to Nobara. Only had to go boot into Windows a few times to use some old programs but pretty much everything else has been perfect for me.
Switched from w10 to arch on my home, mostly gaming, pc. It feels nice, and i like their rolling update model. But i had s lot of experience with Ubuntu before, currently have it on my working laptop
Working nice, no real problems. I am using Fedora. Still forced to use a virtual windows machine (actually a docker image) to make python exe for windows and to use excel (via winapps).
Only thing I didn’t get to is to set a good backup strategy yo be able to easily restore previous state if anything broke. It’s possible but ask for too much time to do it properly. Which there was an alternative to macrium reflects for windows.
I know there is time machine but my sub volumes are not named the way time machine is expecting.
It would be nice to have an easy app setting it all up!Switched from macOS a year ago due to end life support, got the hang of the system after distro hopping for a while
Now I use Manjaro on a handheld 😝 never using macOS or Windows againFeels great!
like a breath of fresh air.
Doing great. Learned alot about Linux. I’m not that good at working with coding or so, but I love the help I can get from the Linux community. I’m on Fedora, because I liked their homepage, and because I had to start somewhere😁
