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
You can open "Keyboard Shortcuts" in the menu and change them to whatever you want.
@cmnybo I figured it out, but I think it's still not very intuitive when you're used to it working by default!
Many distros have screenshots bound to a shortcut by default. So it's working by default, just not the default you know. Even Windows only introduced that shortcut a few years ago. The real shortcut (working without any program even in Windows) is the dedicated PrtScr button. If you hold alt, it'll only capture the current window. It won't be saved but put in the clipboard.
On KDE Ctrl+shift+s worked by default for me, but I don't didn't know if that comes from my distro or from KDE.
@Creat My laptop is weird, because it has a media key for screenshoting an area (which is basically a key that doed Windows Shift S which isn't recognized by default on Mint), and a print screen key which works fine. And to screenshot an area, on Mint it's ctrl+print screen
i have to recommend flameshot. you can edit the captured shot with arrows, circles, numbers, text, and then copy/save/pin it. make a custom shortcut where command is
and make it win+shift+s. I can't live without it anymore.
How do you get more intuitive than literally just typing (anywhere really, because krunner), "shortcuts" and hitting enter lol