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+1 to Mint. It is a very easy transition & you will not have ragerts.
Pros:
prettier than windows while having a similar interface
more responsive than windows
more stable than windows
zero spyware/bloatware
basically the same level of software compatibility as windows
Only things that take some research ahead of time or getting used to imo:
deciding how you want to partition your drives during installation (you can let it automatically do this, but there are reasons to create a different partition structure across drives/have different sized partitions),
mounting drives. There are GUI tools for this (file explorer for mounting, gparted for formatting), so it really isn't a big deal, but it is a little more difficult than with Windows and you may need to reformat your drives depending what file format they're currently in.
make sure your motherboard/video card/cpu all work well with linux. They should, but just check first.
note that games requiring kernel level anticheat (aka spyware) won't work. So if that's a deal breaker, then dual boot or don't switch.
+1 mint
I also have a bit higher FPS in some games (both proton and native) but some just don't run at all
+1 for Mint as a gateway drug.
I started on Mint back in October. My server is still running Mint, because I can't be arsed with setting everything up on another distro, but my work machine is on KDE Neon. And that isn't safe.
uhh...
Not if you have multiple screens and want to zoom the interface or something. I remember there was a massive bug with this
Except all Adobe software, video editing software, many windows only software, the full Office suite
So, no, that's just false
For Adobe, use Winapps.
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps
Thanks, that looks really cool
I have 2 monitors at different resolutions, works fine and my desktop/icon theme/etc is very pretty imo. I do agree that mint out of the box is maybe equally/sliiiightly less pretty than windows - but as soon as you change the shitty default wallpaper it is prettier imo.
That is true about Adobe products. But fuck adobe. And if you need Adobe, then just dual boot.
I believe it's the best thing to do. Wasn't there some problems with dual booting on mint? Something like updating windows wiping grub or similar?
That is something Windows likes to do for funsies sometimes. The distro shouldn't matter. Separate drives can help avoid it from what I've heard though.
Thatβs what I figured out
Not just windows, most linux distros do it too. People just don't notice it that much because if you're using Linux you probably let it handle boot already so nothing gets changed when it overwrites stuff.
I mean yeah, it overwrites itself with the new version when updated. I have not seen a distro that by default overwrites or removes other boot partitions.
Mint and Manjaro are two that I've personally seen do it.