Hi all,

I made this post about a year ago: https://lemmy.ca/post/31760258

At the time, I was going to switch a couple laptops over and if all went well, put Linux on my main rig.

I just wanted to provide an update on my own experiences, and wanted to see what other people’s experiences were like.

I put Mint on both my laptop’s, and enjoyed it. Familiar enough to Windows where I could mess around with things, but different enough that I could learn. After 7 or 8 months of rocking Mint, I finally put Bazzite on my main rig. I did during the work week, which on hindsight was a bad idea because I also run Windows on my main rig as my work requires Windows, but I accidentally deleted my Windows bootloader (lol). After an evening of panic, I was able to recover the bootloader, set Bazzite up with dual booting, and it’s been smooth sailing since.

I’m a pretty big gamer, play lots of games with a bunch of friends, and after about 3 months of using Bazzite, I have not run into a SINGLE issue that has prevented me from playing anything. I have been shocked at how smooth everything has been. In the morning, I boot into Windows, work for the day, and then when I’m done I just run boot-windows through Steam or reboot to get into Bazzite and then I’m gaming.

I have done a little bit of tinkering with audio to get my desk mic to work correctly, but it’s been great!

For others who have recently made the switch over, what was your experience like? Any issues? Any tips or helpful suggestions to share?

Cheers!

  • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I slapped Mint onto an old Surface Pro 3 and it runs great. Only complaints are inconveniences, really (constant updates, no easy way to get the standard set of fonts on it to replace Word’s library effectively). But I’m enjoying it much more than the bloated Windows 10 that used to be on it.

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      6 days ago

      no easy way to get the standard set of fonts on it to replace Word’s library

      I haven’t looked in years, but Microsoft’s Core Fonts might cover at least some of those. Does Mint have the ttf-mscorefonts-installer package?