shrizoid
Student
- Nov 18, 2024
- 103
Yeah I use an 11inch macbook air with mint, it feels liek a cute machine, closest I'll get to a UMPC and I love itI use Windows on my main computer, but I also run a server with Ubuntu server, another one with TrueNas and a third one with Ubuntu desktop, to top it off I usually use a Chromebook as a light task really portable pc!
What type of specs did that laptop have and what winver were you using?I have been using Linux for around 4-5 years. Right now I'm using fedora for a year.
The windows was super laggy on my older laptop and i like how i can tweak things with linux.
I initially messed around a lot and broke the system way too often. I don't do much these days and it's stable lol
I also gave fedora a go but tbh I didn't enjoy GNOME much and tbh fedora just feels meh to me, I know you can probably use other DEs with it but that distro never resonated with me
I forgot that Mint 22 exists now, I stay on 20.3 because 21 and above feels ruined for me, I hate that metacity was fucked off a few years agoI use the Linux Mint 22 on an old laptop. This laptop is about 12 years old so Windows was a little bit slow and Windows 11 doesn't even work with this.
I have tried Damn Small Linux on a computer from 1997. It actually worked.
Slax? Haven't heard of that one tbh, I avoid Ubuntu as well since it just feels meh to me, but since it's still very popular I'm sure it isnt that bad of a distro, idk any other reasons people hate on it other than snapThe first distro I used was debian if I don't count trying out Slax, that was when I was a teenager. Currently, I'm using Ubuntu mainly because I have fairly new hardware and with Ubuntu it mostly works (I had to wait for an update for the touchpad to work and I still can't change the brightness of the screen, but that's a detail).
Has windows updating ever ruined your Mint partition?Linux Mint.
I have it on dual boot (with Windows 10 being the other one, unfortunately...) because I was afraid I might need some Windows software for university at some point.
The main reason I switched was some kind of deep paranoia onset in August this year, so... security and privacy I suppose.
Also, Windows sucks.
I hear alot that windows destroys linux dualboots alot but I've never dualbooted linux with windows for long since I don't like dualbooting much
I use windows 10 on my main PC mainly do to gaming as well, Linux is great for alot of older and more simple titles though so it goes on some of my laptopsI love linux and wish it supported gaming more. I love the privacy and customization of linux so much.
Sadly, I am stuck on Windows as I game too much.
I dailied Debian for a good amount of time, great OS but their pre-historic update times can get annoying and I hear alot of others complain about that as wellI like Debian.
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