Dariusmiles2123

I’m running Linux mainly on a Microsoft Surface Go 1 and on a 2012 MacBook Pro occasionaly, so no friendly Linux machines.

On the Surface Go, except getting it to boot on the USB drive and some bluetooth problems everything works flawlessely.

On the MacBook, except a wifi card problem once a year, everything works fine.

I’m running Fedora Workstation and was using Ubuntu before (Fedora suits me better). Maybe you should try one of these distributions before trying a more difficult one.

I’m really encountering less bugs than on Windows at work.

Thanks for the info 👍

Is it something enabled by default or are you forced to go through a lot of customization to arrive to this result?

I love GNOME and the way you just open everything in a full screen window and just switch workspaces easily.

I find it so much better than just switching windows the way I have to do on Windows 10 at work.

I might be tempted to try to have the same workflow on KDE one day as personnalisation might a bit too limited on GNOME. Does anyone know if you can do it?

A link to the video on PeerTube through Tilvids: https://tilvids.com/w/e4fxGdZgmgZeHVUrPLunUt

It makes me feel so nostalgic.

I still remember trying something alien called Linux on an old Dell Laptop (and also on my Playstation 3) I had inherited from my dad’s company. It was good that everything worked out of the box because I had not technical knowledge. I can’t know for sure but I guess it was a version of Ubuntu between 6.XX and 8.XX.

Then it was Linux all the time, until having a Windows dual boot in the mid-2010 before switching back to Linux fully at the beginning of the 2020’s.

No more Ubuntu though since I fell in love with Fedora.

Well you can use iTunes on Windows, so it’s not as if it was only on MacOs.

In my previous comment, I forgot to add the ability to easily clone one installation from one computer to another.

I’ve used Clonezilla on Linux but with mixed results.

I used it for a while and it helped but there were still issues from time to time so I’m just deciding to go wired for my mouse now

I’m really impressed by the fact that it’s so difficult to find something I miss even if I really try hard.

I’d say I miss being able to do a backup of my work iPhone with iTunes and not some obscure command line tool. But that’s about it and I’m not even sure I really need it since my company is trying to block reinstalling from a backup for safety reasons probably.

Linux has really become something that everyone can use day to day provided they have the right hardware and not something like my Surface Go where the bluetooth comes and goes.

I’m not an expert of virtualization but I’ve had a few VM in Gnome Boxes.

I use Fedora Workstation and I love Gnome and the way you switch between workspaces instead of having multiple windows in one workspace like you do on Windows.

I don’t know if I would really have discovered the Gnome workflow if I only had it installed in a VM. When doing the three fingers touchpad gesture in VM, it would bring me back to my normal Gnome installation, so I never really got to try KDE for real.

I guess if I really wanted to discover a distribution or a different desktop environment, it would be better to really commit as a VM just gives you a good sample.

I might be wrong as maybe some people know how to really isolate the VM from the real machine though…