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Showroom7561, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

Man, I really tried today to get Linux on my Framework laptop.

I can’t believe how goddamn frustrating the experience has been, and I’ve dabbled in Linux for decades.

I try Mint. Install as a dual boot… Installation done. Reboot. Straight into Windows. Check partitions and nothing has changed.

Try again. All seems fine. Boot. Some error screen that won’t let me get into Mint.

Do this like four more times with no luck.

Tried Ubuntu. No easy way to install as a dual boot unless I want to mess around with custom paritions. Also, GNOME sucks ass, but Ubuntu seems way more polished than Mint.

I did get mint on a mini PC I have running through my TV. But audio wasn’t working, so that took a while to sort out. And the onscreen keyboard does nothing on the lock screen. So unpolished, and I have no idea why it’s recommended “for beginners” when it feels unfinished.

With windows, there’s no messing around. Everything just works. And I fucking hate that I feel forced to choose a miserable, hacky, terminal-based experience with countless hours of installing shit through commands… Or a smooth, reliable, easy one with bloatware and spying on the backend. Goddammit!

Gibibit,
@Gibibit@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah with Linux if it doesn’t work you’re often just screwed.

I can recommend a rolling release distro, having the latest and greatest can sometimes give you bugfixes that are critical for your setup. It can also break stuff but nothing a rollback won’t fix.

Another reason to prefer rolling release is the upgrade path. For Ubuntu upgrading is just awful when you do any tinkering. I ran Kubuntu 20.04 for a while and because I had some custom package sources installed it wouldn’t let me upgrade to 24.04. Nobody could help, and the package manager is awful it doesn’t let you trace which packages are blocking the upgrade.

I’m kind of miffed that everyone is recommending mint as a starter distro because as soon as they start looking for guides on how to tinker there is a high chance they are going to make their system un-upgradable.

Showroom7561,

Yeah with Linux if it doesn’t work you’re often just screwed.

This has been my experience for decades. Even if it works, something will suddenly stop working and I’ll have no way to fix it without hours of research and messing around.

With windows, I can fix anything quickly through the GUI. But haven’t had to in a very, very long time.

I’m going to look at other options. I want to stick with a distro that is fully supported by my laptop to avoid even more issues. But the options are limited.

Schortl,

Had the completly oposite experience: mint installed in 2 hours with everything working. No bloatware, no bullshit. Biggest obstacle was, that changing the device bootorder is nog enough- uefi seetings needed some love to. I can imagine that this is not necessery if you do not use dual boot ( like win…talking about experience…)

For me everything works perfect- mint is my primary os now

Showroom7561,

Ok, a quick update.

After posting, and a little soul-searching, I decided to install Ubunu and give things another try.

Installation failed the first time, seemingly right at the end! Tried again, and it went through.

Set things up, and things seem to be OK. I’m only running a browser, and needed to try a paid windows program through Wine, which installed and loaded up without any real issues.

I go for a walk during lunch. Come back to the Linux login screen (expected, as I’d assume it locks like Windows). Log in… blank slate. All my work was closed, and it was like a fresh reboot. What the hell??? No error messages or anything. I literally have the browser and like a few other programs installed, so it’s not like the system is a mess from years of bad software installations.

Sigh…

Then I try another paid Windows program used to convert video files. It seems to work, but it’s not detecting my Intel graphics card. As I look for help on how to do this (officially, from my Laptop vendor), I get pages and pages of things to try… all through the terminal.

I mean, this is stuff that just works on Windows. No messing with stuff.

I really want Linux to be my daily driver, and even I type this from Ubuntu, I can’t help but feel like something is going to catastrophically self-destruct at any moment, and that kind of anxiety is never felt while using Windows.

I couldn’t imagine setting linux up for my wife, if this is the experience I’m having.

CitricBase,

Your experience is not invalid, but It’s fucked up that you’re giving Windows credit for “just working” when Windows doesn’t even try to support dual booting. In fact the reason Linux is having so much trouble is because it has to tiptoe so that Windows doesn’t break.

If you don’t like Gnome or Mint Cinnamon, why not try KDE? Something like Kubuntu, perhaps? I use Fedora KDE myself.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Couldnt OP use the boot loader feature of Windows and add their distro as anotger option?

Showroom7561,

From Window’s perspective, there’s no need to dual boot. But I get what you’re saying. I’m not trying to defend Microsoft, and think that they’ve been enshittifying windows for years now.

But everything works without jumping through hoops. And if it doesn’t, the fix is usually very easy and done through a GUI 99% of the time.

But you are right. There are many flavours of Linux to try. Aesthetics aren’t my priority, though. I do need things to work without spending hours trying to figure it out.

I’m at an age where messing around on my computer for days on end is long gone. 😵

mlg,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

Gonna be a useless recommend, but try Fedora or Bazzite (Fedora Silverblue gaming with tweaks to make it easier).

I’ve had some friends with similar complaints about Mint having one off issues with hardware, which is usually because its downstream Ubuntu which means kernel support can be all over the place.

Fedora is probably best bang for buck in latest stable release without entering the realm of unstable rolling like Arch. Really the only thing I’ve found that it lacks is more varied support for ARM boards out of box and a cross compile package for ARM from x86.

By default it does have a slightly annoying repo setup because software that isn’t FOSS ends up on RPMFusion which you have to enable as a user, which is why I suggest Bazzite, which also uses the immutable Linux design which makes it much easier to prevent from breaking or fixing by rolling back a change.

Showroom7561,

Fedora is fully supported on my Framework laptop (as is Ubuntu and Mint), and I did have it working off an external SSD to try.

But… Sigh…

It’s American, so I won’t use it. American is one big reason why I want to quit Windows. Maybe I’ll just keep trying. 😮‍💨

mlg,
@mlg@lemmy.world avatar

Bruh, uh… maybe OpenSUSE lol?

communist,
@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.

I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite is objectively a better starting place for beginners.

The mere fact that it generates a new system for you on update and lets you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lmde is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.

I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.

Showroom7561,

I appreciate the reply.

Fedora and Ubuntu are officially fully supported by laptop, so it’s Mint and a few others to a lesser extent.

I won’t use Fedora due to it being American, but the Fedora experience was quite nice the last time I tried.

I may explore other options through the Framework (laptop) community to see what else I can try.

communist,
@communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

Bazzite works around the issues with american patents, if that’s the problem.

If your problem is american control over your computer, I assure you, they have extremely limited control, at best, they own the package manager, which only runs if you tell it to.

adm, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

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  • domi,
    @domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

    Which one, Bedrock or Java?

    For Bedrock there is an unofficial launcher: flathub.org/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher (Disclaimer: Never tried it)

    For Java there is the offical launcher: flathub.org/apps/com.mojang.Minecraft

    Alternatively, for Java, there are also the much better unofficial launchers like Prism: flathub.org/apps/org.prismlauncher.PrismLauncher

    Dremor,
    @Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

    By emulating the Android version, yes. But The java version is better anyway.

    r_deckard, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    I’ve got a few computers - my daily driver is Win10, there’s a media player still on 8.1 (only accesses music streams and it’s not spotify, it’s URLs like das-edge15-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a98345), the main pihole machine runs vanilla Debian, the backup pihole on a Raspberry Pi also running Debian, and a couple of older laptops also running Debian.

    So no, I don’t plan to upgrade.

    Brotha_Jaufrey, do games w I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists?

    Soldier of Fortune: Payback. Obviously the best game ever made.

    AceFuzzLord, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    Plan on, if possible, cloning my account to a new account on a new internal drive (preferably a 2TB+ drive) to save all my stuff that I want and don’t feel like moving over due to laziness. Then on another partition, I plan on having the rest of the space being used for Linux. All I gotta do is make sure the win10 partition doesn’t receive an ounce of Internet connectivity at all and pray I don’t end up with a virus or something similar somehow (because even the safest internet practices aren’t safe enough anymore).

    Hopefully I can turn that partition into a cold partition where I can keep the current games I have that aren’t downloaded through Steam installed to ensure I can still play them. Then I can slowly debloat it by uninstalling everything I don’t need on there and get rid of a ton of files/unnecessary programs so that way I can still have roughly 500-600GB for win10 just in case I ever need it for anything, like a program I genuinely cannot figure out how to get working on Linux.

    RememberTheApollo_, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
    @RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world avatar

    Not gonna upgrade.

    Have already had Linux for decades.

    Linux still can’t handle anticheats for the games I play, so primarily on Windows I stay.

    BleatingZombie, do games w I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists?

    Any sports “video game”. I’m sick of the “simulations”. I miss games like Blitz the League and The Bigs

    Alexstarfire, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    I don’t plan on doing anything until I have no choice but to buy a new computer.

    nutsack, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    Linux is fine. Ive been using it since before ubuntu was invented. But Windows has the most goddamn computer games.

    Womble,

    The vast majority of which now run fine on linux with proton.

    Wiz, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    I’m planning on it.

    I tried a rest run with Kubuntu on an old laptop I had, and it runs 95% flawlessly. My biggest issue is my new Brother printer that I’m trying to install connected to Wi-Fi. The system sems to know it’s there, but then doesn’t seem to install the drivers. My Android phone prints there just fine.

    domi,
    @domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

    I assume you tried adding a new printer through KDE? There’s usually no driver needed if all you need to do is simply print/scan.

    https://lemmy.secnd.me/pictrs/image/bbe5d638-f4cb-4744-b35b-9ca1d134431f.png

    Does it fail with both options?

    Wiz,

    I thank you sincerely for getting back to me on this. I wanted to let you know I just figured it out! I thought I’d document it for the next person to come along.

    I had tried all of the options in that screenshot, and none seemed to work.

    Investigating further, it was a Brother printer, so I needed to download special drivers: support.brother.com/g/b/productsearch.aspx?c=us&l…

    Then, arcane magic needed to be performed on the command line: support.brother.com/g/b/downloadhowto.aspx?c=us&l…

    I had done all that, but I still had a problem. Digging through the script output, apparently I had a bad “libsane” installed with apt. Also, to add to the problems, apt doesn’t recognize the string “libsane” now. We are to use its new name “libsane1” now in apt! So, I tried to reinstall and then reinstall the brother printer drivers, to no avail. Eventually, I had to completely uninstall libsane, and then reinstall it. And everything magically worked.

    It’s so easy! 🤨

    One thing to be ready to have is the IP number of the printer, which I was able to get in the WiFi options of the printer.

    Whew! Test page printed on my test machine! I feel like this was my last major hurdle before adopting Linux on other machines.

    Again, thanks for responding!

    domi,
    @domi@lemmy.secnd.me avatar

    Thanks for documenting it for future people! Glad you got it to work.

    Lucidlethargy, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    No, I do not plan to jump to Linux, which doesn’t play many games still without a lot of headaches. Any other questions?

    communist,
    @communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

    Yes, I do have questions, why?

    why do you care about those games so much when 90% (actually more I think) work perfectly and the few that don’t fail because they have malware?

    sporkler, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    I upgraded last year, have lost no functionality

    CitricBase,

    Me too! I upgraded to Fedora Linux. It’s amazing how everything just works, even all the games I play.

    pulsewidth,

    Upgraded to Linux or Windows 11?

    Because nobody is claiming you’ll lose functionality with Windows 11, so your post seems to imply Linux but I’m unsure.

    sporkler,

    Linux

    Critical_Thinker, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    linux primary with dual boot for a windows install just because of the games that won’t work.

    sdtg5afwooasiwefr, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    This year will be the year of the Linux desktop for shure. I believe in it like the years before.

    pulsewidth,

    For Shure maybe, but what about for other audio products companies?

    P. S. I unironically believe 2025 may be looked back on as the year of the Linux desktop. May have finally got through the trough, we’ll see though.

    terrifyingtuba, do games w 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

    I am going to attempt to switch to Linux, I’m definitely not going to willingly use windows platforms again.

    humpacactus,

    As a lifelong windows gamer I’ve just switched to cachyos and honestly it’s been fantastic. Performance seems on par (or within 5 percent) and it’s super customizable. Haven’t had any issues getting things working, including non-steam alphas. Went into it thinking I’d probably switch back, but have no need currently. You definitely need some troubleshooting skills, but nothing too crazy if you already tinker a bit in windows.

    Edit: I’m also running triple monitors at 144hz and it’s been completely fine (and I’m on Nvidia).

    kjetil,

    For those of us who didn’t know, CachyOS is and Arch-based distor with performance focus and some ease of use tools.

    this blog explains some difference to other Arch-based distros

    EndlessNightmare,

    I bought a new computer a few years ago that has 11 on it. With how the Steam Deck has seemed to really promote Linux for gaming, I’m seriously considering it on my next build.

    It is very obvious to me that Windows is becoming increasingly subject to enshittification.

    terrifyingtuba,

    Yeah, proton seems to really work wonders, and it seems it’s only going to get better. I have windows 11 on my work laptop and I hate it.

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