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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.

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[–] jrubal1462@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

I was 100% in the same boat as you, but it's worked out awesomely so far. For me the biggest thing was that every time I was completely stumped by something randomly not working even though I was following internet instructions pretty closely....it was a freaking permissions problem. Random shit with no clear error message, just shit not working.

Dive computer plugged in and turned on, but not connecting? It says "timed out" but what it really meant was"this program doesn't have dialout privileges, so even though it looks like we're trying, we're actually not letting anything go through until you add it to the right group"

Plex library showing empty even though you just spent hours transferring stuff over? Plexmediaserver isn't being dumb, it's just its own user, and even though YOU have access to the library folder and can point Plex there, that doesn't mean Plex can see anything in there.

I could go on but you get the point.