...and it went very smoothly. I installed on a spare PC for now, but I could absolutely see this becoming my daily driver. I'm mostly surprised at how snappy and responsive it is, even on 10 year old hardware!
Me too! Just replaced my eight year old (and beat to crap) Chromebook with a corporate hand-me-down laptop that I ~~stole~~ got when they ordered new laptops! Just played around with both Mint and Ubuntu for a couple weeks and I've seriously loved it.
I'm trying it on my laptop first cause me scard
it's probably going to be fine, but afaik it's slightly more likely to be difficult on a laptop due to custom hardware
Good call. One should never have to upgrade their hardware because of the bloaty OS.
one of us
Great success
I am surprised it's snappy since pop_os is one of the heavier distros but it's still better than windows 11 I guess lol.
I am actually curious how much the speed changed exactly now are there any experiences like "it used to take 20 minutes to boot on windows" and so on?
Well, the PC is an older one and hadn't been in use in years, so it has HDDs (a small SSD for the OS), was running windows 8 still, and I think has an unusual amount of DDR3 RAM. Maybe 24gb?
It was taking 5-10min to boot (the first boot took 20, and I was worried it was dead). When I was transferring files off of it before formatting everything, it was so slow that I had to leave it on overnight. Basic tasks were hanging. Just imagine your typical end of life, bloated Windows PC that hadn't had a fresh reinstall in a while.
Now, Pop!_OS boots in a matter of seconds, minimal delay in opening apps/moving files/downloading stuff/etc. It could probably be faster, but it feels like it's brand new relative to how it was functioning before.
Is actually kind of sad. Microsoft Windows does have a really stable and performant core. It has some bad decisions made years ago that legacy compatibility holds them back on, but even so it’s amazing it works as well as it does.
But they ruin all that by piling on the BS literally nobody wants but they have decided you must have.
Yeah I have a Value Village PC with Windows 10 that will be offered to the penguins pretty soon,
I use Arch btw
(SteamOS)
Congrats!
I hope you find it a suitable replacement, I haven't used Windows in years thanks to Linux.
My advice, the good documentation on parts of Linux is quite literal it's best not to skim over sections. Sometimes the authors choice of words will infer answers to questions you might have.
A bit of competency in the shell/command line will go a long way, being able to view hardware (lsblk, lspci) mount drives, traverse the filesystem (ls, cp, mv, chmod etc) and a few of the basic commands for example
This should give you the ability to:
Back up all your important data from a live environment in the event that your distro is completely borked before reformatting
Gives you solid foundations to learn more in-depth parts of Linux if needed, access to internal documentation (man pages etc) from the shell itself is useful too.
Don't be afraid to dive in, it's hard to break things learning the basics if you're not root.
I am looking forward to getting more comfortable in terminal. At the very least, I know how to navigate around the file system, use SSH, and some other basic stuff. I find it hard to retain this info unless I'm learning it for a specific need/purpose, so I'll probably slowly pick it up in a random order as I have problems to solve.
You should check out the tldr program. It's a community-driven quick reference tool that lists common practical examples for commands.
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I have mint on two laptops and I want to install it on my desktop but right now I have too much work to do and can not get a couple of days to install it and set it up the way I want. I have a lot of files I need to move first.
Now you need to start looking for tall socks for your required picture.
Congrats!
Hint: :q!
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