This is just to share my experience with everyone, especially the people still undecided.

I was planning the switch for months, and finally had a couple hours undisturbed from the wife and the kids :)

It was a slightly rocky start, as my USB wifi receiver did not have native drivers, but with wired internet and the official Mint tutorial the rest of the transition was super smooth.

The OS install went flawlessly and within an hour I had all the basic programs, browser and utilities up and running. I love that I just download the app from the dedicated place, no pointless web surfing for the latest versions.

I backed up my steam folder (with the rest of my files of course), so after installing the steam client and some quick synchronization I had my installed games library back in minutes. I did some testing and everything works great. As I own a steam deck I already had some experience with games not running natively on Linux, but a saw many great tutorials for beginners. I cant wait to test out some more games!

Edit: thank you for all the positivity and great feedback! I know Lemmy users love Linux and I have to admit I feel a little bit more included :D

Who knows, maybe I will start warching Star Trek next…

  • @AngryCommieKenderEnglish
    52•5 months ago

    Just to be clear, watching Star Trek, or Sci-Fi in general, isn’t a requirement of being a lemming. It just helps parse the memes

      • @WhyFlipEnglish
        5•5 months ago

        Love sci-fi, cannot stand anything Star Trek with the exception of newest Star Trek movies.

          • @[email protected]English
            5•5 months ago

            Classic Trek is pretty preachy about things that are mostly popular opinions now.

            Yes, Kirk, I agree about everything, didn’t you have a third act asspull to grab?

            On the other hand the new movies didn’t have a point at all, just pew pew pew which is timeless AND brainless.

            • @SkybreakerEngineerEnglish
              5•5 months ago

              They weren’t popular back then.
              And I can think of a few people who worship the Constitution without understanding anything in it.

          • @WhyFlipEnglish
            4•5 months ago

            It’s too cheesy for me. I really enjoy darker, more gritty shows like BSG and The Expanse.

            • @Schal330English
              9•5 months ago

              Give Deep Space Nine a go if you haven’t it’s the slightly darker side of trek.

              • /home/pineappleloverEnglish
                2•5 months ago

                I started with The Next Generation and loved it. On Deep Space Nine now, I think it’s ok but I think I love TNG more.