I recently switched to #Linux Mint.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick I just replaced Mint with Zorin on an old laptop, before sending it to friends who're done with MS's BS. I only chose to replace Mint, because Zorin is my daily driver, so it'll make remote support easier for me. Mint was my intro to Linux, which made the Win transition a breeze. Zorin's pretty straightforward, so I'm hoping it won't turn them away from Linux.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick welcome to the freedom
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
Mint is a very good distro (as is LMDE) although I am on Ubuntu, mainly due to hardware compatibility on my MacBook Air
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick I use Obsidian for now to track notes I need.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick my goto text editor is Kate
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick
Older Notepad++ does work on WINE (I don't know about newer ones).
KATE is very similar and maybe better. I used Notepad++ on WINE (2017), and then changed to KATE.
Deleted Windows partition in 2017.
I used this (instructions are wrong)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
on an 2002 XP Laptop and a 2015 Win7 tower (Legacy boot) to make files for Oracle Virtual Box on Linux, but I hardly use them. I also used the BIOS Win10 Key (can be read in Linux) as key to install Win10 also as a VM. -
I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick I left Mint as I had an AMD graphics card, and the kernel they used at the time didn't support it. So now I use Cinnamon on Ubuntu.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick Linux Mint is probably the only one which never gave me problems (i installed it only in my VM), apart from the constant need to clean old version files.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
I like geany for an editor that reminded me of notepad++. I'm not a programmer, and my needs are modest, so it may have failings I didn't notice, but I liked it.
I now use whatever my desktop provides. Mousepad on xfce, and kate on plasma.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
I'm not a newcomer (on Linux for almost 30 years and on Unix on Uni workstations before).
I recently installed Mint on a computer, and it's nice and easy. Almost full recommendation.
The tiny things, I don't like is that, it doesn't restore my windows after a shutdown and that cinnamon is not as customizable as KDE-Plasma.
However: These are truly First World Problems.
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@Some_Emo_Chick What are you using for personal finance software?
@TimWardCam @Some_Emo_Chick I'm using https://kmymoney.org/ for around 20 years or so.
If it is needed, I'm not using online banking with it, so I can't say anything about this topic.
But the double-entry accounting principles helps to keep a good financial overview.If you maybe are looking for other alternatives on Linux for example for Quicken here some other suggestions:
https://alternativeto.net/software/quicken/?license=opensource&p=2&platform=linux -
I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick Rofl, I love that meme image.
I do not in any way disagree with it.
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@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.
@blotosmetek I am well aware of emulation and translation layers. My goal was to try to use as much native apps as possible. I went with Sublime for text editing / coding.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick It's amazing how thoroughly Mint dethroned Ubuntu as the default entry point.
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I recently switched to #Linux Mint. I mean, the reasons are obvious so I will save that for a different time. What really struck me was just how easy it was to actually do it. Problems were minor and mainly due to the fact that I have an Nvidia card in my laptop.
Aside from that, I was up and running quickly. Apps I wanted, (including Steam,) were easy to find and install. There were a couple apps that I needed to find replacements for, like Notepad++.
Yesterday, I deleted my #Windows drive.
@Some_Emo_Chick oh dude, you don’t need a Notepad++ replacement in Mint. Mint comes with Xed
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@Some_Emo_Chick What are you using for personal finance software?
@TimWardCam I think GnuCash and Homebank are both viable options but I don't have a recommendation yet.
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I like geany for an editor that reminded me of notepad++. I'm not a programmer, and my needs are modest, so it may have failings I didn't notice, but I liked it.
I now use whatever my desktop provides. Mousepad on xfce, and kate on plasma.
@lxskllr I am using Sublime. Works well for coding and text editing.
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@Some_Emo_Chick
Older Notepad++ does work on WINE (I don't know about newer ones).
KATE is very similar and maybe better. I used Notepad++ on WINE (2017), and then changed to KATE.
Deleted Windows partition in 2017.
I used this (instructions are wrong)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd
on an 2002 XP Laptop and a 2015 Win7 tower (Legacy boot) to make files for Oracle Virtual Box on Linux, but I hardly use them. I also used the BIOS Win10 Key (can be read in Linux) as key to install Win10 also as a VM.@raymaccarthy I am using Sublime as my text editor and coding app
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@Some_Emo_Chick you could actually use Notepad++ on Linux thanks to Wine. But if you don't need any particular feature that is endemic to Notepad++, I guess there's more than enough sensible Linux editors.
@blotosmetek @Some_Emo_Chick Using stuff through Wine can be a pain if you have to, for example, open external files.
Which, uh, is kind of Notepad++'s thing.
(My biggest complaint isn't so much that you're using Z:\ to access stuff by a full path in most configurations, but that awful dialog it uses to do so.)
I've found alternatives for most things these days, but there are just a handful of very specialized tools I rarely have to use (things like game modding tools are never made for *nix sadly — I sure wish they were) and that file open/save dialog in WINE is the absolute worst. Clearly a total afterthought where they didn't think people would use it very often...
Anyway, whenever a native option will do it's always preferable. WINE is always a stopgap for tools.
