Good morning With recent changes to the Windows platform I’ve decided to make the swap to Linux. While it’s not the first time I’ve tried it out I’m hoping to find the transition easier this time. I’m giving Mint a go and will try and make this my main OS. I will keep windows as a dual boot option for now just in case I have to do a task that I haven’t learned how to do with Linux.
So far I’ve managed to get steam running and tested a game I’d play to confirm it was working.
I suspect the biggest challenge will be terminal.
If anyone has any feedback or suggestions I’m open to them. Heck even funny moments when you first started. I still find when Linus nuked his setup very funny.
Mint is one of the best beginners distro. Just follow the initial popup guide and use the driver manager to enable all the hardware correctly. If everything works and is updated, then save a system snapshot ( you can find it in the updater setting). You can do all this without using the terminal, but in all honesty it is one of the more convenient feature in Linux. Just don’t go experimenting and copy/paste unknown source from the web in the beginning. Especially without a backup. Also, not all the distro commands will work, stick with the one made especially for Linux mint/Ubuntu.
It’s been interesting so far. I used it to install some programs instead of using the GUI interface.
Did have to muck around to fix my HDMI audio latency issue. 1-3 seconds of not audio was a bit annoying.
Managed to get my dual boot with windows setup so Linux is the default OS unless I tell it to do Windows instead.
Even used it to shutdown the computer a few times just because I could.
It’s not as bad or intimidating but I do know to be cautious.
One bad SUDO and I can wipe something out.
You can either do backup or a snapshot in the timeshift to recover previous instances of the system. Before anything else, learn these simple procedures.
https://linuxvox.com/blog/linux-mint-system-snapshots/
https://www.fosslinux.com/102696/how-to-back-up-and-restore-your-linux-mint-system.htm
Also save this link to the Linux Mint User Guide: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
After that, Go wild. You can also have fun trying different linux distro without installing them. All you have to do is the same usb bootloader with rufus (or etcher from linux) and just try them from the pen without install anything.
Linux mint is a baby of Ubuntu (and grandchildren of Debian), so pretty much any command or app who works there, works on mint too. The teminal have also a sort of manual preinstalled. If you type “man” plus the comand you want to check.
https://commandmasters.com/commands/man-linux/
Last tip. If you want to add more cool icons you can simply unzip/extract the icon-set folder and past them in /usr/share/icons then open the theme app and they should be there with the other