Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It’s been true for decades now.
year of the
it’s been decades.
Should we tell them?
let him rest, he has lost his mind from all the compiling through the years
Tell who, you?
Every year it is true.
So I’ve mucked around with ubuntu… gonna switch over to linux. Ideally something more user friendly at first.
Can someone TLDR Zorin OS vs Mint?
For now I just want something I can swap out my main device until I have more time to finish learning ubuntu.
Just go Mint and then you can get as deep or not as you want into Linux.
Both have an Ubuntu base
Mint develops their own desktop called Cinnamon which is like a cross between Gnome2 and windows 7 UIs. Its looks a bit bland, but some people prefer that.
Zorin uses Gnome3, but is heavily customized to give people a choice between windows 7, windows 10 or MacOS type experiences. The UI does look a lot more modern than mint in the looks department. They also have a commercial support option.
Both have a pretty good suite of software for customization and management.
Personally I’m loving Bazzite, which is Fedora based with a lot of customizations for gaming and modern hardware. It’s also immutable, which makes it difficult to break.
Nyarchlinux is the Linux for you!
Honestly I downloaded it as a joke but it’s great
Is this a serious comment? Because I don’t see an /s
Is this a joke? Because I don’t get it and nobody is explaining it to me
They’re recommending a meme-distro in a serious thread without making it clear that it’s a joke.
In this case someone might read their comment and follow their advice, thus ending up with Nyarch as their first distro. In the future, when they run into problems, they’ll have trouble finding support because it doesn’t have a massive knowledge-base or the support of a big community behind it like all the mainstream distros do.
It might be an obvious joke to a Linux user, but a total Linux newbie might get confused or not even recognise it as such. If this comment was posted in /c/linuxmemes or something I wouldn’t say anything, but it is not.
I use nyarch, btw
as someone that have been scrolling lemmy daily for 2 years, i am surprised i have never heard of this distro, i thought being a lemming made me a linux expert
Did it three days ago. Took the windows partition out back and formatted it.
If you don’t mind me asking, why did you choose Zorin? How do you hear about Zorin?
This is just wonderful news.
I’ve never used Zorin. It doesn’t seem to match my preferences and needs. Regardless, anyone switching from Windows [and Mac] to any Linux distro is fantastic for all of us, including remaining Windows users (probably not Mac users though).
Let’s hope more keep switching, leading to a surge in Linux, and open source in general, funding. More people becoming interested in Linux development, potentially turning into more and more open source devs. I think we can be quite optimistic about this.
Windows 10 support ends. Open the floodgates. Let the windows refugees come !!
Been a Linux user at work for decades, windows at home for gaming. This week I am 100% a Linux user full-time.
I wish I could get steam to run on my Linux OS, it’ll only play like 3 of the games I want, and none of the VR ones
Have you looked into proton support. Not sure what games you play, but it plays the majority of my library
That a distro? I’ll look into it
Proton is like wine, it allows you to run games on any distro
Proton is a compatibility layer that basically tricks an application into thinking it’s running in Windows, allowing to run in Linux.
3 of my friends asked me to help them with linux installs this week XD
What did you use for install?
Mint :3
Why zorin?
Zorin and Mint are frequently recommended foe Windows users. With Zorin having paid support for schools etcetera.
Zorin is a bit more commercial but it looks good and not much can go wrong.
Why not?
Someone asking why isn’t inherently saying no.
Someone asking why not isn’t inherently negative.
Hola!
Que tal cabron
Let us hope their wine integration is up to the task. They’ll be gone just as fast if too much of the software doesn’t run with a double click, or MAYBE from the context menu
How is it with nVidia?
About as good as Nvidia allows.
Thank you
I remember my biggest lunch ever. It was at one of those all-you-can-eat calabash seafood places in Myrtle Beach. Starved myself all day in preparation. Man, the people in there were like little planets, like Pluto. Anyway, I filled up on bread and fell asleep.
Think you commented in the wrong thread.
