• TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml
      3·
      8 hours ago
      1. Copy files to keep to cloud or other machine.
      2. Prep usb drive with favorite OS installer (zorin, pop, mint, bazzite, fedora, nix, etc)
      3. Boot into usb drive and wipe hard drive to put linux on it.
      4. Copy desired files back onto your linux machine
      • TrippinMallard@lemmy.ml
        2·
        8 hours ago

        If you come from Windows or Mac and want to keep similar UI familiarity and ease of use then ZorinOS is pretty good. A friend of mine migrated away from Windows and installed Zorin OS core, choosing nvidia drivers during installation. They are very pleased with the experience so far.

      • cevn@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 hours ago

        My pick is Fedora. Really tho you shouldn’t have a problem as long as you avoid Manjaro. (Sry manjaro bros)

        • paequ2@lemmy.todayEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Honestly, I’m kinda looking at Fedora a little more now. I’ve been using Arch for the longest, but I tried Fedora once for the first time recently and was surprised. It’s got a lot of polish and is very close to my Arch setup anyway.

          Ideally, I wanted to do Fedora Silverblue + guix package manager, but apparently that’s not totally supported. So maybe regular Fedora + guix or I’ll just stick with Arch + guix.

  • otacon239@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 days ago

    “Man, I’ve had a headache for a long as I can remember.”

    “Here, try some aspirin. At least give it a shot.”

    “No thanks, I need the headache. It lets me play Fortnite.”

  • HollowNaught@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been using Linux mint for over a year now. The only problems I’ve ever needed Windows for is

    a) playing obscure Japanese games

    b) translating said Japanese games

    • coracoral@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      15 hours ago

      I’ve been able to get LunaTranslator to hook into a visual novel by running them both in the same Bottle. Textractor worked in the past too. Not sure about other types of games though, I’ve only tested a few visual novels. And getting the visual novel itself working in the Bottle can be a bit of a crapshoot. So far I’ve had luck using the soda runner for my Bottles, and then in the Bottle settings, add the environment variable LC_ALL=ja_JP.UTF-8 and set the language to “Japanese”.

      If you just want translation then LunaTranslator should be enough, but I do sentence mining, so I have LunaTranslator and a VN running inside a Bottle, and LunaTranslator connecting to RenjiXD texthooker page (running in a browser outside Bottles) using the websocket method (in LunaTranslator enable “network service”, then in RenjiXD texthooker page settings connect to ws://localhost:2333/api/ws/text/origin, more info here). Then I can scan words using Yomi-tan and add them to my Anki flashcards. I did have to write some hacky scripts to add screenshots and audio to my flashcards as well, if anybody is interested I can share them.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 day ago

    Step 1: Just don’t pick Ubuntu

    Step 2: Refer to Step 1

    Optional step: Don’t pick GNOME for the Desktop Environment lol

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      0·
      13 hours ago

      I honestly don’t understand the Ubuntu hate.

      Then again, my computer usage is just a glorified browser now as all my app needs are on the cloud anyways.

      • uniquethrowagay@feddit.org
        1·
        6 hours ago

        The Firefox snap package was absolutely fucked last time I tried Ubuntu. I had to manually add a repository to get Firefox via apt instead. That was a few years ago and it’s probably fine now, but I don’t really use Ubuntu anymore because of this. Why snap even exists when we have flatpak is also beyond me