okay, I installed Mint with root and swap mounted to my SSD and home mounted to my big drive and now I feel incredibly smart ✨
✨
it is frighteningly responsive and fast
steam wouldn't start after installing and instead of panicking I ran it from a terminal and notice it couldn't find fonts and apt install'd them myself and now it works and I feel like a fucking god
the terminal is not scary
it is my friend (whom I respect)
thank you tarminel for my life
update: basically every Windows app I used has a great functional Linux version
not to mention Mint handles my Switch-audio-to-line-in setup SO much more simple and straightforward than Windows did
Also love the built in super-fast region and window capturing, no ShareX needed
hell my Switch audio setup sounds 5x better than it ever did in Windows because I can actually see information in front of me re: line gain instead of 5 ambiguous independent volume bars
it's so fun to learn!! i'm learning!!!
bark!!!!
I've been legit absorbed in this all day and now I'm -starving- oh my god
It's so satisfying how quickly and thoroughly things can be removed and reinstalled with a just a quick couple terminal commands
like, y'all. holy shit. messing with nvidia drivers on windows is like an hour long affair of extracting bullshit and restarting in safe mode to use a third party driver garbage cleaner
and now it's just
sudo apt purge nvidia*
sudo apt install nvidia
5 minutes tops, including downloading
I think this might be the time this OS finally doesn't bounce off me and I'm excited
@ShugoWah Getting an SSD for the first time is such a huge upgrade.
@ShugoWah Your computer is in Mint condition
@ShugoWah all of the learnings!
@ShugoWah go eat!!!!!!
@ShugoWah terminal commands are powerful things
@ShugoWah don't do this, but one of the more amusing ones is... I think `dd /dev/urandom /dev/dspkr`
this just sends random data to the speakers (and bypasses all volume controls, hence why I say not to do this)
@ShugoWah the fact that you basically never need to reboot linux is kind of great
@Felthry oh I LOVE IT
@LongLevy If you have a little time, reading about just the basic principles of Linux and the HFS is really interesting and demystifies it quit a bit!
@ShugoWah seeing you this enthusiastic about linux gives me ENERGY
@SwooshyCueb it's super fun!!!
@ShugoWah ah god i should tell you about the audio setups i've had for my switch
@ShugoWah glad you’re having fun!! I don’t use Linux on the desktop myself really but knowing your way around a bash terminal is a great skill to have for a variety of reasons (and in my case, is applicable on macs too)
bristling with uncontainable energy