Alright you nerds, I made the jump to Linux.

"You" nerds? It's "we" nerds now, nerd.

Bro thank you from the bottom of my heart for the type up. I've been contemplating this for months and this very may well be the final tipping point for me to make the plunge. I'm in pretty much the same boat, tech savvy but don't want to deal with shit I dont have to which has been my main reason for not diving in yet. I've thought of doing exactly what you described as I do love a little challenge, which I get contradicts what I just typed. Anyway, yeah, thanks again for the post! Will be doing my own switch here in the near future.

Pro tip, if you’ve not found it already - there’s a package for gimp called “photogimp” that makes it use the photoshop interface instead of- it makes it so much easier to use! Highly recommend.

Today Valve published a Proton Experimental update that fixed the Marvel Rivals crash for me. Be sure to set it up in game properties / compatibility.

Your striped thigh-highs will be delivered in the mail within a month.

You are a certified penguin now

I'm thinking of doing the jump this weekend but I'm scurred. I don't want to spend hours debugging an OS like I did over a decade ago. Any reassuring words?

One of us

Have fun with it! This is how it starts. :)

But seriously, whether you stick with it in the long run or not, toying with Linux from time to time is a great experience for any computer nerd and now is really a great time to do it.

Feel free to ask questions!

Also save yourself some hassle by using the right terms when you search for things, for example, searching for "How to X in Linux Mint" or "How to Y in Cinnamon Desktop". A lot of people do searches for "Linux" and end up frustrated when the bulk of the results are terminal commands, but familiarizing yourself with the different pieces that make up your system is I think a big part of learning "Linux".

I figured I'd put myself through a huge challenge of cutting over completely to LInux without a secondary backup drive with Win 10 on it.

Exactly how I did it coming up on a year ago. Still going strong!

It might not be a feature you're interested in re: your music (or photo) collection, but one thing I missed when switching from Windows was the folder previews showing album cover art. I've been using Cover Thumbnailer (on Linux Mint 21.3) and it's been working great.

omg you chose the wrong distro aaahahhhh~~~

Seriously, though, I'm glad you're enjoying the switch, hope you also enjoy the mandatory thigh-highs!

Hell yeah! I'm proud of you nerd! Trust me i know it can be overwhelming but you're doing amazing figuring all these things out! :)

Sexy!!

Hey I just wanted to share how I was able to get Marvel Rivals running, although I'm on a different distro it should work for you:

In the Launch options (right click game > properties > general tab) enter this:

SteamDeck=1 %command%

Then, it tricks the game into believing you are on steam deck, and it should run. If you want to disable the performance metrics, just press right shift+f12.

I'm a recent lifetime windows user to Linux but loving it! I've dual booted so I can still play stuff like fortnite/call of duty but surely those will come around as the user count climbs :)

Edit to add: I found this fix on protondb.com - you can usually find others posting helpful stuff there relating to any Linux game!

A bit of unsolicited advice now you're in to tinkering. Set up some kind of NAS.

Having everything available wherever and whenever you need it is so much better than messing about with thumb drives.

I've been running Mint about a week now, same story and similar hardware. I came from substantially older hardware than you did.

As I understand it, Mint started using a much better kernel with version 22, so hardware support so far has been perfect.

Also having a great experience so far. Biggest challenge has been finding replacements for done utilities but I've had good luck there too so far.

9800x3d gang say wooooo

Protip.once you have it setup make a snapshot or backup. You will be trying stupid shit out and breaking the system as you explore.

Great to hear you switched. I just switched from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. I had actually used Ubuntu circa 2007-2009, but switched to Windows because it was just easier. I never really loved Ubuntu. Linux Mint seems amazing so far. Very intuitive and user friendly. I can see non techies in my family using it on their Windows 10 machines later this year.

GNU/Linux thank you very much

Welcome to the penguin side! I made the switch over a year ago and it's honestly been fantastic.

I don’t think you can jump to Linux. Don’t you have to strut there wearing sexy tights?

Welcome aboard! I did same like a year before, and it's been a blast!

If you were me from the past, I would've definitely recommended you to try out tiling WMs (Guess AwesomeWM is a good start) ASAP! I can't stress enough how good they're, especially if you prefer using keyboard shorcuts over mouse navigation.

Also, if you'll find linux mint problematic, I want to suggest you to try out EndeavourOS (i wish i would've done it sooner myself). It's installation is as simple, but it's based on arch, and arch has one of the most comprehensive wikis, which allows you to troubleshoot basically any problem. Also. newer software versions get there faster, and finally AURs, that will allow you to forget about manual software installation at all.

Time to build your server

Nice hope to do the same when windows 10 goes end of life.

Y'all really choose hard mode for switching over. Having Windows on a partition sure is nice when a software requires it and wine doesn't support it.

Welcome and good luck. The community is large and we generally like to help each other.

Old Specs Everything the same as above apart from:

• Windows 10 Pro
• Intel i7-12700k
• Noctua NH-U12A
• MSI Pro Z690-A
• MSI RTX 3080 Gaming Z Trio
• Samsung Gen 3/4 M.2
• Corsair Vengeance Pro 32 GB >DDR4-3600
• Lian Li AL120 case fans

Brother, that's a whole new computer. Anyway, have fun and, if you haven't already, you should install KDE Connect and Syncthing. I don't know what you use your computer for but I have yet to meet someone who wouldn't benefit from it.

I've been doing the exact opposite approach to Linux for a little while now. lol:
I've installed Mint onto my two "used parts" PCs and also an ancient laptop i have.
My gaming PC will stay Windows until Win10 EOL for the sake of game compatibility.

I do more and more on Linux as things come up!

Congrats. I made the switch to Ubuntu in 2016, you are spoiled these days with Proton. I want to concur with the advice to learn the terminal. You dont need it yet, but you will eventually. It'd be wise to do some research on your package manager too. You're on Mint, so it should be apt.

Also, word of advice for future OS swapping if you- say- wanna try a new distro someday. Find yourself an external drive for your files like music and documents. Its better to not need to rebuild your library in the first place if you can, and its safelyoff the OS drive if something goes wrong. I got a cheap Mybook backup drive, 4TB for 90 bucks, and formatted it.

Nice. ProTip, checkout ProtonPlus or ProtonUp-qt. They manage different versions of Proton for you. They both do the same things in about the same ways. ProtonPlus will match better with Gnome based Desktop Environments and ProtonUp-qt will match the Kde like environments.

You could have kept the 3080 and would have still be good to go with mint 😇every nvidia with 4 digits name that ha x0xx syntax is working good on Linux (except if you do not want any closed source software on pc)

Edit: someone pointed out that there are legacy cards with 4 digits name as well 🤪

Have you tried Krita? It's made for digital art, but I find that the UI is pretty similar to Photoshop, so I like it for image editing

My condolences, and welcome!

Linux gaming and selecting a non wayland distro seems an unusual choice. If gaming is your main usage, something with wayland and especially gamescope would be better. Beside that, welcome to the other side!

Now you're a nerd too 😀 Welcome!

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We have almost the exact same PC

Welcome nerd!

Yay, welcome to freedom! Glad it's working for you and feel free to ask for help here. Of course Linux Mint has its own forums where I've almost always found an answer already there whenever anything has come up for me, and it feels pretty friendly.

Enjoy!

I'm addicted to .net, I need it to breathe

Welcome to the cool side my friend

Hey Congratulations! I just started my linux journey a couple years ago too, just the same way you did without any duelbooting! I'll share one thing I found out recently: apparently neofetch was abandoned by it's developer, and now is no longer maintained. instead, a lot of people suggest using fastfetch! it works the same except its faster and still maintained! otherwise I hope you continue to enjoy your linux journey, welcome to team penguin!

You love to see it. I also switched my home machines cold turkey from win10 to Linux Mint last month!

I have been using it at work for a long time, but just didn’t do enough on my home desktop PCs for it to be worth fiddling with them and setting servers and stuff back up. But now that I made the switch, I am actually using my PC more at home because it’s smoother and more fun to use now!

The main one is an i7-9700k (8c/8t) with 32 gigs of ram and a GTX 1080. It has such a long life left ahead of it. Heck the other machine is a 2500k (4c/4t) with 16GB from like 2011 and it’s excellent for desktop use or non-demanding games.

I see myself sticking with Mint with Debian & Ubuntu upstream for the foreseeable future. But I do wonder several years from now SteamOS will push many of us to use something with Arch upstream if not just SteamOS itself.

Congrats. I think Mint will treat you well.

Yeah I changed a bit back but I went to new hardware. Ill be accessing the windows likely for months until I get my lazy ass in gear.

For those making the switch to Linux for the first time, especially Mint, one of my favorite YouTube hosts is currently filming/releasing a series where he does the same.

Check it out: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXHMZDvOn5sU4nw1wdWGXQf5-Fj0k2N7n

Have you customized that Cinnamon of yours, or is that how it looks nowadays?

I do dig the specs. Looking to build something similar myself soon, except with more cores and RAM, but probably cheaper GPU, maybe even keeping my current 3060 ti, because lately I run more docker containers, VMs and compilers, than games.

You can pay $30/year to continue using Windows 10, you know.

But honestly, give 11 a chance. It has really good HDR support (so much better than 10's, and Linux's HDR support can't even compare, it's so bad). Furthermore, the taskbar issues can be fixed by installing StartAllBack. Lastly, Microsoft is considering recalling Recall after all the backlash it got. So you still don't have to worry about that anytime soon.

Point I'm making is that if you have an HDR display, there's still plenty of good reasons to dual boot.

My display support HDR400, But I don't see much difference between Windows 10 and Arch Linux.