Finally, after some time I made the switch to #Linux !
🧵1/2
Here is my experience and the hiccups I found :
- It was hell to find how to boot on the USB drive. You needed to disable secure boot and it didn’t tell you that anywhere, as far as I can tell
- It was easy enough to set up, connect to wifi etc
- Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs
- The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized
- Keyboard shortcuts changed, for example screenshots can’t be done using Win Shift S, the clipboard history doesn’t work by default etc
- The key to mute my mic doesn’t work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.
- I like how typing the name of software from windows like paint and notepad gives the linux equivalent
@linux
I was able to just set the keys how i need them, it is super easy to configure just from the menu.
Welcome!
Mint is an awesome choice to start. It’s got a nice balance between slim and enough features to get you going.
Keep in mind at all times: at some point you’re gonna need that one piece of external hardware to play nice with Linux or maybe that one piece of software ain’t doing it like you’re used to.=> there is a way or an alternative. Always keep calm, research the topic, and follow instructions carefully and thoughtfully when you find a tutorial.
That aside enjoy it, a little slice of freedom away from big tech awaits.
@FreddiesLantern Aside from the hiccups I mentionned, it works great! I was surprised my backlit keyboard even works, but I think that’s managed by my bios.
I’ll keep on using it, but I’m trying to document my struggles because if Linux is aiming to be a good alternative to Windows computers getting to end of life, then some set up wouldn’t be done by most people and just assume it’s broken and maybe switch back to Windows where it “Just works”.
Maybe this can help with the onboarding experience!
You can remove the bar for Firefox: Right click on the toolbar -> “Customize Toolbar…” (or Burger menu -> “More Tools” -> “Customize Toolbar…”), then in the bottom left uncheck “Title Bar” (This works in KDE, at least)
@hard_zero1 Thanks so much! It worked! :blobcatheart:
You can open “Keyboard Shortcuts” in the menu and change them to whatever you want.
@cmnybo I figured it out, but I think it’s still not very intuitive when you’re used to it working by default!
How do you get more intuitive than literally just typing (anywhere really, because krunner), “shortcuts” and hitting enter lol
Many distros have screenshots bound to a shortcut by default. So it’s working by default, just not the default you know. Even Windows only introduced that shortcut a few years ago. The real shortcut (working without any program even in Windows) is the dedicated PrtScr button. If you hold alt, it’ll only capture the current window. It won’t be saved but put in the clipboard.
On KDE Ctrl+shift+s worked by default for me, but I don’t didn’t know if that comes from my distro or from KDE.
@Creat My laptop is weird, because it has a media key for screenshoting an area (which is basically a key that doed Windows Shift S which isn’t recognized by default on Mint), and a print screen key which works fine. And to screenshot an area, on Mint it’s ctrl+print screen
What is this terminal display of device information called? I’ve seen it for other distros too.
out of curiousity what’s the script in the post image? i always see it and i’m curious how to generate it. :3
i installed linux in march and havent regreted it <3
If you’d like the same functionality but using pride flags to color in the distro logo, check out
hyfetch.this is incredibly relevant to my interests (the only thing more relevant would be nyancat and pride flags) :3
You’re looking for fastfetch: https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch
ooh thanks! <3
@cupcakezealot It’s
neofetchTry it! :blobcathug:
thanks! i wasn’t sure if it was a distro specific thing so I was curious! <3
The bigger top Firefox bar is due to the fact that it is using server side decorations instead of client side decorations (aka, Cinnamon, thr graphical environment is setting the top bars instead of letting apps do their thing)
@First_Thunder Is there any way to disable that?
Yeah, in your Firefox settings. Click the menu with the 3 horizontal lines in the top right corner, click “More Tools”, and then click on “Customize Toolbar…”. On the bottom left corner there should be a checkbox that says “Title Bar”. Uncheck that and then click “Done” in the bottom right.
@Nyadia Figured it out and it worked! Strange that this isn’t the default.
Seems like a theming choice by Mint
Nice welcome to the club
Terrible post title.
Because its not. OP made a post on Mastodon and crossposted it to Lemmy by @ing the community. I’m not sure this wasn’t by accident
@scott It’s a mastodon post, lemmy federates it and takes the start of the post as a title. Can’t do much about that :blobcatcoffee:
Fair enough.
