Picture of my daily driver machine installing openSUSE.

  • Bombastic@sopuli.xyz
    91·
    19 hours ago

    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

  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    17·
    22 hours ago

    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.)

  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    24 hours ago

    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.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      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!!

    • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      22 hours ago

      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.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      Agree, a USB stick live install is a good way to test - users should just bear in mind it is slower than a real install as USB drives are not as fast as internal hard drives. Once the OS is loaded fully it will feel reasonably snappy but still every piece of software you launch will take longer to load than a real install, and the bigger the software the longer it will take to load.

      I also tended to recommend Linux Mint for beginners although I think I’m moving more towards recommending OpenSuSE Leap. The reason being it ships with KDE which is a slick interface with a Windows like set up by default (although very customisable - users can create MacOS or Gnome like interfaces with relative ease if they prefer) and gives a better idea of what modern Linux is capable of than Cinnamon in my opinion. Also KDE’s Discover app makes it easy to install software, comparable to Mint’s software store. Mint still has many more guides online but they’re often around terminal use and APT based solutions, and I’m beginning to think that is actually a bad thing. Most stuff for mainstream users can be done via the GUI, and KDE offer’s a great GUI. Plus Flatpak is a far better way of installing custom software than the APT recommendations I still see widely shared, so I think it’s actually better to move people away from Mint. Personally I think OpenSuSE Leap is the better option (and possible Fedora KDE Plasma edition although I am less familiar with it).

  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
    18·
    1 day ago

    Welcome to the light side. I’m a happy Tumbleweed user for many years now. Love that Hitchhiker’s guide reference .

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      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!

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    18 hours ago

    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.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      2 hours ago

      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.

  • relic4322@lemmy.ml
    7·
    1 day ago

    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

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      1 hour ago

      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).