Joining the fold by ddrfr33k

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hive-152724 · @ddrfr33k · Sep 5 '24

$4.18

Joining the fold

Welp, I finally did it. I finally done did it. Not only did I get my brother's laptop running Linux Mint, I have installed Linux Mint on my laptop and my desktop is soon to follow.

![untitled.gif](https://media.tenor.com/mpmbsd82G14AAAAC/wolf-of-wall-street-jordan-belfort.gif)

Something like this, right? Isn't this how it works? I thought so. I know this seems a bit like I'm going whole hog into this, but it's not exactly a sudden decision. Allow me to back up a bit and explain. Firstly, I am NOT a fan of Windows 11. I do not like what they're doing and what they're forcing on their customers. I'd rather stay on Windows 10 and wait for Windows 12 to come along. But unfortunately, we can't have nice things, because Windows 10 is going end of support next year. When that happens, I don't want my computer to be anywhere near the Internet.

Second, my brother's laptop is a hand me down from me. I bought it in 2017, and it served me well. I hear the shit out of it, and I know it. But it was still a solid PC, capable of plenty of things my brother would get up to. But eventually, it got to the point where it wasn't updating because of a glitch, and I couldn't reinstall Windows because...there was something that caused it to not want to install. The crazy part was that I even had a new SSD and couldn't get it to work with the computer, even if I installed Windows 10 on it. I still don't know why it wouldn't work. Anyway! I had heard Linux Mint was gaining a lot of traction for being close to the Windows experience and easy for the renewal public to use. On a lark, I was like, sure, let's give this a try. So I set up a live USB and tried running it on the laptop. It fired up, it ran smoothly, and I was even able to install it to the SSD! And oh boy, did this computer FLY!

![1000003638.jpg](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/ddrfr33k/Eoc5XXCQ1ojx8EHMkzub3hDHisysNXtQviVAYHNJJGsct7r3d4XXGjhcCM8TLRWFzxm.jpg)

I opened it up and did a little spring cleaning on the innards, just to make sure it was going to be ready for my brother. He just got it back this Monday.

Setting up his computer got me thinking about my systems. After a little backing up and prep work, I decided to try it out on my laptop first before anything else. I was able to install it without too much hassle. I had to disable Intel RST, but that wasn't bad. Everything works out of the box, with one catch. I can get audio through the headphone jack, but not through the speakers. This is apparently a known issue with Asus ROG Strix laptops and ALSA, so I'm not going to fuss too much over it. I tried the live USB on my desktop tonight, and I can find my secondary drives and everything. I'm thinking a little bit of cleanup/backup and I'm going to move my desktop over to Linux Mint as well!

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@alberto0607 · Sep 6 '24

Linux mint is a great distribution, it has everything and very easy to configure, they are doing a great job and making good decisions.

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@ddrfr33k · Sep 6 '24

They really are! I installed it on my desktop this morning and everything is already up and running the way I want it. That's saying something...

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@angeluxx · Sep 9 '24

I think it's great, my computer teacher says that Linux is better, greetings from Venezuela

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@beerlover · Sep 5 '24

<div class='pull-right'>https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/beerlover/yiuU6bdf-beerlover20gives20BEER.gif<p><sup><a href='https://hive-engine.com/?p=market&t=BEER'>View or trade </a> <code>BEER</code>.</sup></p></div><center><br> <p>Hey @ddrfr33k, here is a little bit of <code>BEER</code> from @steevc for you. Enjoy it!</p> <p>Learn how to <a href='https://peakd.com/beer/@beerlover/what-is-proof-of-stake-with-beer'>earn <b>FREE BEER</b> each day </a> by staking your <code>BEER</code>.</p> </center><div></div>

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@feanorgu · Sep 5 '24

 used this distro for years and when W10 came out had to change cause many of my programs at the time required it, i am also working on going back to linux systems

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@ddrfr33k · Sep 5 '24

Honestly, I like Win10. It's a good, solid OS. I know why Microsoft wants us to upgrade, I get it, it's just that they have this bad habit of shitting the bed every other release and now they're forcing everyone onto the shit stained release next year.

👍 feanorgu

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@feanorgu · Sep 5 '24

it's not bad ngl, but for the love of me, XP was the last Windows experience one could actually use and have some hope for the future :D

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1 reply

@steevc · Sep 5 '24

That's a good move. I've used Linux (mainly Ubuntu) on my PC for years. I've not used Win11 much, but it looks horrible to me. Have fun with it.

!BEER

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