I am now officially a turbo nerd. I should apologise to that one Linux guy my friends and I all made fun of in high school
I was going to try dual-booting anyway later this year once Microsoft takes Windows 10 behind the shed and forces Windows 11 on all of us, but the push for pulling the trigger now ended up being my recent post musing about AI. I was informed AI image generation is actually pretty doable on consumer-grade PCs these days and I wanted to mess around with it but it turns out that AMD GPUs + Windows sucks for anything AI. After not getting anywhere with ComfyUI-Zluda, I went out and grabbed a cheap SSD drive and installed Linux Mint on it. Not sure if I’ll get anywhere with image generation with Linux either since my GPU isn’t that great regardless, but the important bit is getting Linux experience
I’m currently setting up my programs and I really like the feeling of Mint so far, very reminiscent of Windows back when it didn’t suck ass
im a mint fanboi… its very functional. ive got a dozen machines doing all kinds crazy shit.
for music, theres a great skin for qmmp to have winamp function as expected.
Thought that was Brace Belden
very reminiscent of Windows back when it didn’t suck ass
That was exactly my thoughts when I installed Mint. I moved to Bazzite for the gaming specific focus and more cutting edge features, but I’d recommend Mint to anyone used to Windows.
Never quite understood those seeking a Windoze-like experience when moving to Linux. Seems like marrying someone because they remind you of your ex.
Windows-like can mean a lot of different things, from “the ‘start menu’ looks exactly the same,” to “it’s easy to fuck around without this thing getting in my way,” to “all of the un-enshittified programs I’m already used to (because I have discerning tastes) just work like normal.”
Most people do not want to re-learn how to operate a computer any more than they’d want to learn how to drive on the other side of the road
What’s the story on that image? It’s an antique that I’ve seen for decades, never found out who that guy is or what he was up to
All unknown. Rad setup, tho.
I’ve been a Mint user on my shitty old laptop for ages now, I keep coming back to it because the Mate desktop environment is a warm safe blanket for me. I’m glad Mint doesn’t try to “innovate” too much on that front.
2 years on Fedora, only a handful of visits to Windows for some specific settings for internal lighting and proprietary software/firmware. Beyond that, useless. Welcome to the legion of nerds.
