Done, running mint now. Switch was easy, machine performance improved without that bullshit telemetry running.
this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2025
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Mint is pretty... Uhh... Mint.
Im not sure why eveyone keeps blindly recommending mint, yeah it works great if you only do document editing and web browsing but it kinda undersells Linux.
It's very easy to jump into (coming from Windows), and it comes with a lot of game compatibility.
The only reason I switched to SteamOS was because Yad was very outdated on Mint and every attempt I made failed. The dependency list to attempt to upgrade it was also pretty substantial.
Wait, is SteamOS officially a thing you can install on otger devices than the Steamdeck?
Although it's not considered officially supported, you can absolutely install it on your PC. It's been working great for me. The only hangup was disabling read-only mode for editing the OS and changing the default boot up behavior (start in desktop, not big screen mode). Other than those two things, it's pretty much been plug and play.
Ohhh, interesting!
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Honest question: I've been using mint relatively pain-free for a little while now. What am I missing out on?
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One thing I've always disliked about linux as a consumer are the countless versions and the new flavors that seem to come out every few years. I don't want to rediscover the wheel constantly or find my version has been abandoned by developers.
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Making that bootable USB was a pain. Needed a program to check the ISO. Download more files to check it against. Another program to mount it. Another program because the first doesn't do Linux iso. MBR or GPT, didn't even know about that.
Checkout ventoy. It can be used as a multiboot disk so you can try a bunch of distros or have backups of prior releases or even have testing/recovery images like clonezilla or memtest.
MBR is older and might be more compatible with older computers it wouldn't cause any problems, GPT is newer and if your computer was built in the last 10 years you might as well use it.
Doesn't matter anymore since I installed Mint, which btw formatted my drive to GPT afaik.
Like I said, it's still useful for other tools and recovery.
Enjoy Linux.
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I mean, it's not really fighting back. There's nothing to win. You're just ending a toxic relationship and getting your PC and digital wellbeing back to how things used to be.
Freedom, respect, privacy, money, ... There's lots to win. And it isn't just going back to how things were: it's going to places better than anywhere you've been.
KDE plasma has gotten really good with 6.5
I get why Microsoft wants everyone to be in one OS for code maintenance issues. The problem is that Microsoft has hit a wall in getting Windows to be a revenue generator and is including privacy breaking features like Copilot without a way to disable or not use it.
I think a lot of people wouldn't be complaining about the upgrade if Windows 11 wasn't dog shit.
If Windows 11 is their maintained code then we're all fucked.
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I haven't run Linux for probably 20 years until last week when I replaced my windows 10 with Tumbleweed. It's definitely better than I remember for driver compatibility but it's still not good enough for a general windows replacement.
Videos don't play without hiccups, sometimes my keyboard and mouse don't work when the PC wakes up and I needed to install Mint in distrobox to get some software working.
Also people have been trained to troubleshoot by clicking and Linux still mostly demands troubleshooting via the terminal and that's a deal breaker for many people.
Funny thing is I'm so used to working in the CLI in Linux for work that I groan if I have to work through any gui like x windows.
Yeah I think that's probably the most common attitude amongst people comfortable with Linux but it's not helpful for the "just install Linux" movement.
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Using Linux for 30 years already, for servers, notebooks, and desktops. For gaming I still have Windows 10 though. Testing gaming on Linux now, looks promising. MSFS with VR is still a challenge though.
Using Bazzite for the gaming machine and Ubuntu for my laptop. Last windows machine in the house goes away as soon as I get to rebuilding the wifes laptop. Recently discovered Tails for a no traceable footprint tor. Browser bootable os for privacy.
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