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Picture of my daily driver machine installing openSUSE.
Wiiiiiiiiide progress bar
Main con of the ultrawide screens: everything installs/downloads slower
Just tilt the monitor clockwise. Gravity will help.
But the main benefit is that you can see the install/download progress in more detail.
It was also showing the same bar on all 3-monitors! I wanted my neighbors to know just how hard I was installing Linux!
Great choice of distro!
Troublefree for almost 2 years now on Tumbleweed.
Same here, the only time I had a problem was the Nvidia driver updating and breaking the compatibility.
It was Nvidia, it is always Nvidia...
As Torvalds said,
FUCK NVIDIA! (Well, he did not explicitly say that; but he gave nvidia the middle finger)
I think that counts as Universal Sign Language.
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If you're still on the fence about switching to Linux, try downloading a Live Linux USB image and booting it from a USB stick. This lets you try out Linux without changing anything on your Windows drive. The Live version will also let you see if Linux detects all your computer's hardware before you install it for real.
I recommend Linux Mint for beginners.
IIRC you can even install stuff and more to try out software.
I agree on trying the live boot first. I played around with the live boot for a week, and ended up installing mint as dual boot when I got frustrated about not being able to save files, save settings etc. I was barely using Windows at that point.
I had already done that before pulling the trigger. I used Obsidian to get a listing of distros and then took notes as I tested them on my Lenovo Yoga 720 laptop. Obviously, not the same as my daily gaming rig, but it gave me a good enough approximation for how well I'd like some of the distros I tried. In the end it was Mint Cinnamon (currently installed on my Yoga) or openSUSE. I eventually had to reinstall openSUSE last night when KDE started giving me trouble. It's probably the last time I try KDE for a while. I just don't seem to have good luck with it all three times I've tried it across different distros.
Either way GNOME is working great this morning and I'm working on getting stuff customized!!
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Welcome to the club! I installed Open Sousa Tumbleweed this summer.
(It's similar to OpenSUSE, but has a marching band theme by default. This is totally a real thing, and it wasn't just a speech to text failure.)
Can you link it? I can't seem to find a page for it.
Welcome to the light side. I'm a happy Tumbleweed user for many years now. Love that Hitchhiker's guide reference .
Hint: It's 42
Don't forget and bring the towel.
I wasn't sure if that reference would fit here so I'm glad you enjoyed it! I am diggin' the experience so far. Haven't gamed on it, yet, but after reinstalling for GNOME, it's been smooth sailing!
One of us, one of us!
Good luck :)
Good on you! And good luck!
Thank you! :D
c/usernamechecksout /s
😬 sshhhhh, don't tell anyone!
Tumbleweed
Beyond based
PS. If you plan on only using Wayland, you still need to have X11 installed. Don't ask me why, don't ask me how, I only know that without X11 my system would only login to shell
Even regedit hates windows regedit...
Genuine laugh out of this comment! Thanks!
Funny enough I just changed my daily driver to Linux as well. Long time Linux power user, stuck with a Windows main. Finally made the transition, couldn't be happier.
Congrats
Ditto, friend. Which DE did you end up going with? I started with KDE but had bad luck with app crashes last night and odd desktop displays so I reinstalled fresh with GNOME (didn't need to worry about reinstalling vs switching DEs cause there wasn't much done with the OS by that point).
What distro did you go with?
Congrats!
OpenSus.
CloseAmogus
Is it cause I'm regedit? I am just a lowly Windows registry looking for love!
Great choice
I like that you as user "regedit" are installing openSUSE - I like :-D
Great to see another person moving to Linux and OpenSuSE. My only caution if this is your first time with Linux is that a point release like OpenSuSE Leap is probably a better place to start than Tumbleweed. I'm on Tumbleweed and it's generally good but I have had a few things break over the last couple of years, often fixed at next update in fairness but it is frustrating even as an experienced user. I have also had to reinstall Tumbleweed on one occasion; it wasn't a big deal as I'd set up a separate Home and System partition. Tumbleweed is great but it is a rolling release and even though it's a well tested one rolling releases are always riskier in terms of things breaking.
I appreciate the cautionary tale. I already had to reinstall. I gave KDE another shot thinking previous issues were from the old Lenovo Yoga or distro I used it with. Unfortunately, that wasn't so. Even though I intentionally took my time customizing the layout, somehow I had some KDE thing crash twice, the main display had shifted to only showing have the page, like it was stuck under the monitor, and after a reboot to fix that problem it had made it so the context menu on the main desktop was not showing all the options.
While I'm not a fan of GNOME, per say, as I am not a fan of Apple style docks for a taskbar, I never had issues with it, so I am using that instead of KDE.
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OpenSuse is a left field choice. Nothing wrong with it - just not a typical first distro. Hope you have a great time with it! I recommend using it for a solid month then working on a windows pc for a day - you’ll be blown away by how asinine windows is once you’ve got used to Linux.
you’ll be blown away by how asinine windows is once you’ve got used to Linux.
This, absolutely. I really hate Linux sometimes. But then I have to deal with Windows, which I hate even more. It's not that I like Linux. It's that I like it more than Windows.
You said it. I used openSUSE on my Lenovo Yoga 720 for a bit. That's now running Mint Cinnamon and I'm digging' it.
Wewt! I'm actually doing a rescuzilla backup of my Windows box right now because I'm about to install CachyOS on my Surface.
Nice! Yeah I made a full VHDX of my C: drive prior to pulling the trigger on this.
Welcome, sibling
:3
Thank you. Trying to take my time since this is my main box!
Zorin Core is solid too
I played with it a bit. Can't remember my thoughts on it but when I was testing different distros for myself, my wife, and in-laws, I took notes for it.
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