Replying to say this is correct regarding the grammar

I have windows and linux on different drives and windows killed my bootloader this week anyway lol

Thanks so much for the information! I really appreciate it. I’ll see about doing that when I get home tonight

I want everything GNOME gone. Decided KDE was more my style

This makes sense. Will this nuke any config files I have set up already?

Thanks for the suggestions!

I just installed 6 months ago and I don’t feel any need or desire to do a full reinstall if I can avoid it

Quick tip to add to all the other advice: if Linux give you a warning, please read it carefully. Its not windows where you can safely blow through warnings. Otherwise, use it and enjoy!

Thanks a bunch for sharing :)

So few f keys mapped :O

Have you looked into home row mods at all? I find them quite nice to use once you get used to them.

Edit: wtf is that second keymap LOL

Thanks for elaborating. I essentially don’t use amazon so I’m not familiar with their newest shitty practices. This is obviously very anti consumer, I just failed to see it as explained in the article

Could you share your keymap for the qaz boards? I’m curious to see what those look like

I don’t mean to support amazon in this, but the article outlines them promoting their own products over others? Unless the buy box implies something other than “we would like you to buy this”, I dont really understand the issue with that particular point

Something to keep in mind is that Linux doesn’t have the same hand holding as windows. By all means make the switch but do not run sudo commands you don’t understand unless you’re comfortable debugging or reinstalling your system.

I learned that the hard way, though I was more than happy to just reinstall and try again. If Linux gives you any warning, please pay attention instead of ignoring like you would on windows.

I think mint is a great choice and I’ve installed it on my laptop recently and its been working very well. I’m no expert but hopefully if you have any questions I can help you out.

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).

I was literally just looking this up 30 minutes ago. Incredible timing. Thanks for sharing

I made the switch at the start of the year out of curiosity. I had worked for QNX as a student and though that I should have had a better understanding of the system, so I started using WSL for all my programming.

Then joined Lemmy in the summer and that increased my interest in trying it out full time. I was also getting increasingly disappointed with Windows pushing updates for Win11 and features like onedrive.

I’ve been super happy with it so far. I’ve gotten way more familiar with my OS and it’s been such a huge shift in perspective for me to be able to shape the way the OS works to my workflow rather than the inverse.

Wondering if anyone has an alternative to cursr. That’s really the only thing stopping me from making the switch to Wayland full time. I use to make my 2 displays that are different resolutions play nicer

I think it may have something to do with the way I have some apps starting up. I’m gonna investigate that further. Thank you for your help

Most games so far I haven’t had to tinker with. I just switched a few months ago and it’s been smooth sailing. That said, I can’t speak to using any photo editing software.

I’m keeping windows on my computer now for a piece of software for programming my non-custom keyboard and other miscellaneous windows only things like updating Xbox controller firmware. But it has been a blast and being able to make the PC work for me instead of the other way around has been an extremely positive experience.

I updated kernel just now and maybe that will fix it. If not, then I will try reading the logs. Any ideas as to what to look for? I looked briefly through journalctl and I wasn’t really too sure what to keep an eye out for. I know red is bad, but everything in red that I looked for didn’t seem related (mostly networking stuff)