Finally, after some time I made the switch to #Linux !
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Here is my experience and the hiccups I found :
- It was hell to find how to boot on the USB drive. You needed to disable secure boot and it didn't tell you that anywhere, as far as I can tell
- It was easy enough to set up, connect to wifi etc
- Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs
- The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized
- Keyboard shortcuts changed, for example screenshots can't be done using Win Shift S, the clipboard history doesn't work by default etc
- The key to mute my mic doesn't work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.
- I like how typing the name of software from windows like paint and notepad gives the linux equivalent
@linux
The bigger top Firefox bar is due to the fact that it is using server side decorations instead of client side decorations (aka, Cinnamon, thr graphical environment is setting the top bars instead of letting apps do their thing)
@First_Thunder Is there any way to disable that?
Yeah, in your Firefox settings. Click the menu with the 3 horizontal lines in the top right corner, click "More Tools", and then click on "Customize Toolbar...". On the bottom left corner there should be a checkbox that says "Title Bar". Uncheck that and then click "Done" in the bottom right.
@Nyadia Figured it out and it worked! Strange that this isn't the default.
Seems like a theming choice by Mint
@prole I have actually switched to KDE because there are more themes there (and jelly-like windows when you move them which is kinda fun!) while still on Mint and it ended up making websites load faster. Probably something to configure but I prefer overall kde over cinnamon.