I'm seeing a lot of advocacy for Mint on Lemmy but not as much for Fedora it seems?
I've only ever run one Linux distro and that was Fedora KDE Plasma, havent tried Mint yet. Are they not mostly the same or am I missing something?
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I've never understood the fedora hype. The fact that it is adjacent to Redhat should be enough for people to want to stay away lol.
It's easier to install/use. It was my first distro before I switched to CachyOS for my latest build.
Apt is a massive and reliable package manager. Im not very surprised. However I am surprised no one is specifying LMDE
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I put Mint Cinnamon on an older laptop just this past weekend and had a lot of fun with it. Are there any migration tips for my main Windows machine? I was thinking of going with Bazzite since it's my gaming box. What about saved game data and whatnot? I was reading about Putty and SSH ing over to the laptop, but I'm not sure what a good strategy is for my desktop.
Bazzite is a lot less user friendly than mint in major ways. You get everything in mint as you do on Bazzite. I switched to Bazzite and it lasted 2 days before going back to mint. KDE is too deep unnecessarily so. Bazzite doesn't gain you much at all, at this point in time 3 years ago or so I'd not said the same thing. Mint is so polished for gaming shit usually just works now. It's not worth the hype, hassle. I've distro hopped and always came back to mint.
Source is I been there and done all that and more. Your not missing out on anything. Spin up a live USB and try it but believe me dearly it's not worth moving all your stuff reinstalling etc etc. Keep the work flow you got and master it. Other options have more maintenance and headaches.
Appreciate the advice; I may just follow it considering how positive an experience Mint has been.
Bazzite is a lot less user friendly than mint in major ways.
Would you be so kind to substantiate the above claim beyond what's found below?
KDE is too deep unnecessarily so.
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i'd recommend getting a new SSD and installing Linux on that, then you can read your windows drive from Linux and copy over the files you need
Game files can be copied over the same way (obvs to different directories)
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Can't help with saved game data, but Bazzite is a solid choice, not just because it's a gaming based distro. It's one of the immutable distros, so all the important stuff that keeps it running, you can't mess with (easily). And all your personal stuff that doesn't keep the computer running, it doesn't touch. So your computer is always up to date ( faster than steamOS, and if something goes wrong, just reboot into the previous) and you can't screw it up without trying.
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I’m trying, I really am. My current issue is that Wi-Fi completely ignores IPV4 if I’m on a network with additional IPV6 support.
IPv6 should be the preferred option. It's the same on Windows and MacOS.
If you have IPv6 issues, just turn off IPv6 on the adapter you're using.
I remember trying that to no avail, but I don’t have access to the problematic network right now.
Also, happy cake day!
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Don't let Lemmy mislead you into thinking Linux is a drop-in replacement or easy to switch to. It's a difficult process that takes learning, but hopefully you'll find it worthwhile. Good luck with your troubleshooting.