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.
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- Copy files to keep to cloud or other machine.
- Prep usb drive with favorite OS installer (zorin, pop, mint, bazzite, fedora, nix, etc)
- Boot into usb drive and wipe hard drive to put linux on it.
- Copy desired files back onto your linux machine
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice
0·1 day agoYeah agreed for most people migrating from Windows should be fine.
I just had a bias since I’m just used to making my own systemd services and udev rules for my work.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice
1·1 day agoAhh I see. Won’t the immutability impede work? I guess that depends on the type of work. But given OP is switching from Windows for first time it’s unlikely they’ll be wanting to mess that.
yeah Bazzite is also a fine gaming + typical work option
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
2·1 day agoThe key is systematic change via fear of the population. First step is removing the surveillance state infringing on free speech. Next #freeluigi
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice
1·1 day agoI’m also assuming OP doesn’t want a gaming-only setup / wants to actually have a general purpose use desktop too for work, etc.
Bazzite isn’t well suited as a general purpose work + gaming machine.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice
2·2 days agoFrom OP’s post it sounded like they want simple / not tweaking their OS so they can focus on gaming.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•I think i am ready to switch from windows and need advice
21·2 days agoZorinOS or PopOS with nvidia drivers
can confirm. this is the way
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
science@lemmy.world•New Study Confirms Causal Link Between Poverty and Mental IllnessEnglish
291·5 days agoTherapy costs money
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
science@lemmy.world•Study finds declining perceptions of safety of COVID-19, flu, and MMR vaccines in the United StatesEnglish
2·6 days agoAgreed. By poor people I meant people who don’t have enough money to build a doomsday bunker on their own land that filters air and water from outside disease.
The antivaxers are just a catalyst to spread increasingly worse diseases until everyone not in a bunker dies.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
science@lemmy.world•Study finds declining perceptions of safety of COVID-19, flu, and MMR vaccines in the United StatesEnglish
3·6 days agoI think that’s the goal the ultra wealthy elite want: Kill off all the poor people (non-billionares) by making a critical mass percentage of population anti-vax.
Meanwhile they themselves follow best medical practices while prepping their bunkers.
[edited for clarity]
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
science@lemmy.world•Study finds declining perceptions of safety of COVID-19, flu, and MMR vaccines in the United StatesEnglish
5·6 days agoThat’s also accelerating spread of disease
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you think humans can be cloned as of currently? (I mean, not just a specific part of the body but a whole human)
43·6 days agoProbably not cloning like scifi where exact body scars, broken bones, & memories transferred.
But china did try to hide some cloning human project researcher a while back. Not sure what happened there.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft claims "2026 is the moment" for AI PCs, but its essay-length beginner explanation only creates more confusion — Is it any wonder adoption is slow?English
1·7 days agoI’ve heard ZorinOS is good if you want easy switch over from windows / want to keep similar UI
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AIEnglish
21·7 days agoGiven that this person’s boss wants them to dump company data into Claude, I see no functional difference.
TrippinMallard@lemmy.mlto
Technology@lemmy.world•Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AIEnglish
271·8 days agoThe trick is to tell them you’ve been using it more than they have and that it’s not as good as chatGPT for task A, but that for task B claude does okay 25% of the time so we’ll need to 4x the timeline in order to get a good claude output based on that expected value.
But not as good as your personal local LLM that you’ve been training on company data. No one else can use it because it’s illegal to clone. (your personal local LLM is your brain)
Managed to get a matrix server up + a web client frontend hosted on same site for friend group .
3 container docker compose: continuwuity, tunnel, premade Cinny image with nginx serving frontend.
Great if you don’t care about voice, but if you do then you’ll need to host a TURN server on a VPS and connect home server to that.



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