Today, lovely Windows 11 installed an update. And since then I don’t have internet access because Microslop Wincrap 11 can somehow magically no longer connect to the DNS server - to any DNS server. No other device in my network has the same issue. I’ve been bugfixing for over an hour and haven’t found a solution. setting the DNS manually, resetting the network adapter, flushed all DNS entries (I used the commandline tool on Windows!). nothing works.

I don’t have ANY more patience with W11!

I already tried Linux. I’m using Ubuntu Server for hosting Nextcloud and Fedora just to play around.

Do you prefer Fedora or Ubuntu? I have an old Thinkpad…

(And no, I will not go down the rabbit hole of Arch ;-) At least not for now.)

  • spacehedgehog@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    7 小时前

    Thank you all for the many replies!

    I’ll summarize it as followed:

    • Ubumtu: one does not use Ubuntu any more
    • Linux Mint: always a good start
    • Fedora: also always good and would be good for a Thinkpad
    • Bazzite for gaming
    • Gnome really is not for everyone

    Since I already tried Fedora, I’m going with Linux Mint for the moment.

    (In fact, the installation of Mint is running right now and I’m using the whole SSD, no windows boot manager partition will survive!!!)

    • KneeTitts@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 小时前

      Linux Mint: always a good start

      Started and stopped there, I love it and never even think about windows anymore

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    12 小时前

    Fedora is wonderful. I would not recommend Ubuntu to anyone. Fuck Canonical, who fancy themselves the next Microsoft.

    For an easy version of Arch, try Cachy.

  • giacomo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    12 小时前

    fedora > ubuntu

    personally, i like the ublue images, at least for general desktop and gaming - bluefin and bazzite.

    • ksh@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      8 小时前

      Love Linux Mint. I switched to LMDE, stable as a rock. PC came with windows installed. Removed crapware immediately.

  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.mlEnglish
    41·
    13 小时前

    Echoing everyone else, Mint. Bazzite (which is Fedora based) if you’re planning to run more recent games on it. Mint isn’t bad at running games by any means, Bazzite is just more fine tuned towards it. With Cinnamon/KDE they basically feel like Windows minus the bloat.

  • tristynalxander@mander.xyzEnglish
    4·
    14 小时前

    I think the standard recommendation for people coming from windows is to try Linux Mint. It’s Ubuntu based, but the interface is more windows like, which helps easy the transition. The transition is also easied if you’ve been using open source alternatives on windows or the linux for windows subsystem. Anything to keep the amount you have to learn at once relatively low.

    I wish you the best on linux, but if you find the interface differences are too much for you and decide to go back to windows, try these other things to make switching to linux later easier. As fanatical as the linux community is, there’s no shame in needing a longer more gradual transition.

  • kyTdKZx9PtDQ9e56u06@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    91·
    17 小时前

    Don’t settle immediately. If you can spare the time, distro hop for a few weeks / months. On the shorter run of things, give each OS you try a good week before moving on to the next. All distros do essentially the same thing, they just flavor it diffetently. Do you like typing apt, or dnf, pacman or yum? Do you prefer being deep in CLI or prefer using an application store? How do you like your userspace to look? Shiny? Bubbly? Classic? Retro? GNOME, Plasma, Xfce, Mate, Cosmic?

    There’s enough options out there to make your head spin. Without touching arch, you should at least visit the following -

    Little Champs

    • Mint
    • Zorin
    • Endeavour
    • Pop OS

    Big Champs

    Gaming focus

    • Bazzite (fedora)
    • Nobara (fedora)
    • Cachy (arch)

    Give each or those that pique your interest a fair shake. A week at the minimum. Some you may not need a week, some you’ll find yourself in a natural swing of things. You’ll know when you know.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    23 小时前

    Highly recommend Fedora over Ubuntu.

    Ubuntu Server and Desktop has some dumb defaults that look measly next to Windows, but still annoying next to Fedora.

    Fedora also generally has more solid documentation without a bunch of LTS slag threads with outdated answers.

  • brb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    18 小时前

    Kubuntu has been pretty nice to me. It has the beginner friendliness of Ubuntu and the modern desktop of KDE

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    1 天前

    I am a Debian man myself for servers. I don’t want any Canonical bullshit to break mid LTS.

    While I am still running win 10 I am undecided which desktop to switch to. CachyOS and Fedora are the front runners but man do I hate Gnome.

    • sp6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 天前

      You don’t have to use Gnome on Cachy or Fedora. Fedora has spins for nearly every DE, and Cachy also has an option for nearly every DE on install.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        14 小时前

        I’m scared of Arch and cachyOS was the easiest OS install and config I’ve probably ever done. Maybe OSX was easier, but that’s it. It’s sooooo good, and I had zero issues getting everything working perfectly.

        Fedora had three big issues and many small. Fedora was actually the worst to get going. My hardcore difficult use cases include playing a video file from my NAS, seeing the music library on there, changing the desktop theme without it going crazy, and not having the aux jack send a huge horrible pop noise to whatever is plugged in when the sound device constantly goes to low power mode.

        Both cachy and fedora on the same exact model of machine, both at the same time (two machines, hardware is perfect, also windows 10 LTSC IoT dual boots to them both which worked… as well as windows works I suppose, good enough)

    • spacehedgehog@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      1 天前

      I’m not a big fan of Gnome on Fedora either. Everything is just so big and needs so much space. CachyOS is a tad to new for my taste for using it as a daily driver.

        • Blubber28@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          20 小时前

          Seconding Fedora KDE. But if you’re not a fan, you could also opt for many of the other supported desktops (cinnamon, XFCE, etc.)

          • Marthirial@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            12 小时前

            Cinnamon is the way to go if you have finicky peripherals like Razen keyboard/mouse or a Wacom tablet.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        6·
        1 天前

        CatchyOS being bleeding edge has actually alleviated a lot of my complaints with Ubuntu/Fedora. Sometimes I really want that brand new shiny thing. And so far I haven’t had too many issues with Catchy breaking. Granted I only run it on my testing laptop not my main machine.

    • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      1 天前

      CachyOS and Fedora are the front runners but man do I hate Gnome.

      Plenty of good KDE distros out there. And it’s often possible to install KDE on a Gnome-default system.

      Don’t know about CatchyOS or Fedora, but on Ubuntu, the command was sudo apt install KDE-full … then just restart and it boots into KDE no problem.

      (Yes, I know Kubuntu exists. But Kubuntu didn’t support ZFS on root during install, while mainline Ubuntu did. So I suffered through using Gnome just long enough to open a terminal and type in that command, followed by reboot.)

  • BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zoneEnglish
    1·
    15 小时前

    I’m on Win10 LtSC IOT… The only reason I moved from Win7 to that operating system was so I could keep steam alive. My steam account is 18-19 years old. Any one have step by step instructions on how to get the nicest, easiest to use Linux distro for a guy who uses 5 different windows keyboard shortcuts entry 5 minutes?

    I’ve been with Windows since 95, I’ve been working in IT support since XP… I just want to get away from Microsoft, keep all my games, keep a file explorer and be able to quick change my brain to learn new (just as easy ) keyboard shortcuts like Crtl-C, Ctrl-F, Win-R, Win-E…

    • busted_Anoose@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      14 小时前

      these days computers are fairly cheap. just have two, one for games and such, the other for browsing and wotnot

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        13 小时前

        Having multiple OSes is such a boon for doing… everything hahaha. Last night Windows was playing games and my MacBook was taking a long while to copy a huge folder over from server to server in my house, so I initiated the transfer from a Debian machine that was just playing media for our cats and let that run for a few hours. I had to walk over to it, though—my machine didn’t wanna RDP into it. What kinda world do we live in where I have to GO TO IT?! Wild.

    • vole@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      13 小时前

      With most Linux OS’s you have a choice of what desktop environment to use. The desktop environment controls most of what I would call the OS experience. Most linux distros will have KDE or Gnome installed as the default desktop environment, though there are often some more minimal or power-user focused desktop environments offered. I’ve heard Cinnamon is another good choice.

      Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-F, F3, F11 generally behave the same on most Linux desktop environment and software as they do on Windows.

      Alt-Tab, Alt-F4 are commonly supported

      For the run menu, Alt-F2 opens a similar menu in KDE and Gnome. I can only go into the specifics with KDE, but I can also run commands with the regular Windows key start menu. Though when I personally run commands, I generally open a terminal (Ctrl-Alt-T) so I can get tab completion. On KDE, Win+E opens a file explorer. Almost all the keyboard shortcuts are customizable on KDE, but I prefer to swim with the current whenever possible.

      For some distros, you can write a “Live” version to a flash drive to try it out before installing, but opening applications will be slower than running on an SSD.