Just installed mint yesterday, I get it now
Just installed mint yesterday, I get it now
I thought it'd be a pain but installing programs through the terminal is actually so nice, I never would have expected it
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Isn't it fun? It's like owning your car and learning what everything actually does, and figuring out how to fix it. And having an amazing community to boot!. I enjoy it.
I'm thinking of making Linux my daily driver apart for some software I need for work. People are super positive about it on here, but isn't it still the case that some peripherals won't work? Or that I'll spend a ton of time making the system work instead of actually using the system?
It would be for gaming that I'd use the Linux installation mostly.
It depends a lot on your hardware. All of my stuff was picked up instantly (all AMD), my kb/mouse/tartarus of course, and my Logitech wheel. Now if you mean VR, linux struggles with that right now at least for oculus. The vive is ok with steam only games I heard.
I treat it a lot like an old car. I love it and tinkering on it is fun, but if an emergency pops up and I have to, I can reboot into windows. Really trying to never have to do that, except for VR and games like PUBG (which yeah we shouldn't support but my friends and I still like it sometimes).
If you're the type that craves learning and the journey is more fun than the goal (ie, me), then do it! I just put mint and popos on 3 different computers and have been having a lot of fun with it.
Speaking from personal experience but pretty universal one at that.
Once terminal kinda "clicks" you will get the urge to tweak stuff. It happens because there is bunch "demo apps" that are just cool to mess around with but simply don't get known on co-orperate OS. Check this as example.
If games you play or tools you use can be fitted to linux, at some point you will port 80% of your workflow just messing around during the tweaking. Like when you do your first rice.
And after that you can confidently chose if you want to add on to that or continue dualboot.