Just don’t ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D But thankfully, there were a bunch of helpful folks with tips!

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    43·
    10 months ago

    Following the ancient traditions, I’m here to tell you that you picked the wrong distro. 😉

    But welcome aboard.

    • Iceblade@lemmy.worldOP
      15·
      10 months ago

      Oh undoubtedly!

      Hopefully my partitioning was decent though, so distro-hopping shouldn’t be too hard if I feel like switching (or even running different distros side-by-side?)

      I was personally drawn to it because: it’s not Ubuntu; ButterFS seems like a nice safety net; KDE Plasma is sexy AF; noone seems to have anything particularly horrible to say about it.

      Why is your chosen distro (obviously) the superior choice?

    • Iceblade@lemmy.worldOP
      51·
      10 months ago

      Thanks! Next step is getting equivalents for all the software I use and figuring out proton.

      Most of them (thankfully) are foss, but I’ve a few without equivalents.

      • Kory@lemmy.ml
        5·
        10 months ago

        Proton should work well but if you have any questions you might wanna subscribe to

        [email protected], [email protected]

        I hope you will find everything you need and that the transition will be smooth!

        Edit: Fixed the links, thanks bot.

  • ashaman2007@lemm.ee
    41·
    10 months ago

    If you haven’t I would join the Matrix space, really helps when there’s a gap in the docs!

  • Corr@lemm.ee
    2·
    10 months ago

    Welcome to Linux :)

    I also started with tumbleweed in December, but it didn’t play nice with my desktop for some unknown reason so I switched to Fedora. Also didn’t make much sense to run a rolling release on my laptop so I just moved to Debian on the laptop and it’s been great.
    I hope you enjoy your experience. Plenty of very helpful people here and forums to find answers to questions you might have later down the road (or tomorrow if you’re anything like me).

    • bunjix@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Running Tumbleweed as daily driver. Which Debian do you use for your laptop? Never tried it, but the itch is there…

      • Corr@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 months ago

        Linux mint Debian edition. I just wanted to properly try cinnamon since I know GNOME isn’t for me and I really like KDE. Other options strike me personally as mostly just downgrades to KDE. It’s been very easy, absolutely nothing to complain about.
        And the best part is I don’t update 2000 packages every time I use it lol (it mostly sat in a drawer collecting dust).

        I don’t know that there’s really much difference use wise aside from the lack of updates. Everything largely looks and feels the same. Debian doesn’t have YaST obviously, but I never actually used my laptop enough to appreciate it so idk what I’m missing out on there.

        No harm in trying stuff out, especially if you don’t use your laptop much like I do.