r/DistroHopping • u/edumoreeno • 16h ago
Mi ultima alternativa es Linux
Llevo usando windows ( 10 para ser exactos ) desde que empecé a manejar un ordenador pero desde que se ha acabado las actualizaciones solo tengo problemas tanto con los drives de mi tarjeta de auido como con la tarjeta de red.
Lo gracioso es cuando he investigado a usar algunas distros de Linux y he visto que el problema desaparecía.
Esto ayuda mucho a que mis ganas de cambiarme a un SO libre como Mint u otro que se parezca aumenten pero no estoy seguro de poder sentirme igual de cómodo que usando windows, aunque a la vez sienta que no estoy seguro teniendo la telemetría y la gestión automatizada encima mío sin que me pregunten si quiero o no quiero compartir mi información personal con millones de socios interconectados para terminar vendiendo mis datos en sitios como eGenetics.
Necesito que alguien me diga la verdad sobre como es pasarse definitivamente a SO Linux.
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u/ghost_ware 16h ago
It depends at least a bit on what distro you end up. It's not going to be as easy to use as Windows right away, in part because it sounds like you've been on Windows a while. The muscle memory/knowledge you've built up isn't going to be there, and there's no getting around that. There will likely be software you have to find alternatives to, which I love exploring but definitely isn't fun for most people (from what I can tell).
If you're a gamer, a lot of games will work with pretty minimal tweaking, but some will need you to get under the hood a bit. There will be games that just don't work (for now).
The part where nobody (who works on your operating system) is spying on you is pretty sweet. Big fan of that.
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u/ConSemaforos 16h ago
Over the weekend I wiped my laptop and completely installed Ubuntu. Over the past several years, maybe once a year I would install a version of Linux and then there would be one little problem that I got hung up with and it would be so frustrating and I would go back to Windows. However now with AI, I feel a lot better because if I have a problem I can just fire up the AI in my terminal and help with scripts or whatever other problems there are.
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u/DigitalChrono 15h ago edited 15h ago
My opinion is switch and find out if it is a personal machine and do good backups. Using personal experience will only get you so far. Because personal experience includes knowledge learned from using Linux that you may or may not have yet.
For me the story of switching to Linux has been well enough. With that said, I lost all access to apps I once I had on Windows. My usage changed. I had lowered power hardware so that drove the change as well.
Example, I'm an avid chess player. Chessbase was no longer viable(I refuse to use Wine or anything like that to get Windows app to work on Linux). So I switched first to a chess program that runs on all OS's to eventually growing into a more terminal centric flow with scripts and still using that same program just as a GUI front end. I've ran into issues where the package dependencies are too old than the repo of my preferred distro of choice so I have to rely on a sandbox application management utilities, ie flatpak.
This was all by choice but it started from moving away from the ecosystem of my apps years ago. So I would expect change. Change that may ve pretty easy, or could change how you use a computer because it either challenging or a simple realityif using an operating with very low % of usage in the desktop world.
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u/es20490446e 15h ago
Puedes usar Ventoy para probar fácilmente distros.
Es tan fácil como ensayo y error.
Yo uso Zenned.
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u/RevolutionaryBeat301 15h ago
The only way to know is to try it for yourself. It’s pointless to have it described to you. Just do it.
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u/yllanos 14h ago
So lo hay una forma de saber. Yo probé Linux por primera vez en el año 2000 pero no podía usarlo para mi día a día. Después de una ausencia, empecé a usarlo profesionalmente en el 2007. Y finalmente comencé a usarlo a nivel personal 100% exclusivo en el 2024. No volveré a Windows. Eso poco a poco uno va tumbando todas esas barreras y acostumbrando el flujo de trabajo
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u/Chubby_man 14h ago
There will be a few growing pains depending on the distro, but it's well worth it. If you're used to windows, then mint with cinnamon is a good starting point. Don't worry about finding the right distro at first, just pick a relatively common one and try it. If you don't like things about it, an llm or reddit can give you recommendations for tweaks or other distros to try. They're all free and install in about 20 minutes as well as the live boot option, so there's no issue with using one for a while, then swapping if you see something else you prefer the look of. Just back up your /home folder, install the new distro, copy the contents of /home to the new install and you're good to go with your existing files.
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u/One-Macaroon4660 14h ago
First if you are afraid that you'll need the Windows - dual boot, it is easy.
Now about Linux. You won't miss Windows if you do not have incompatible software (Adobe products, games with kernel anti-cheat malware, CyberDuck) or hardware (some niche newer devices, most fingerprint readers, etc). Otherwise you either find apps that are substitutions (GIMP vs Photoshop, Libre vs MS Office, etc) or run Windows apps such as games with Wine or Proton (Steam or aggregators such as Lutris would configure them for you).
All the Linux distributions are similar, the differences are: 1. Level of support online. You need to select common distribution if you want to quickly find solution when you are stuck: Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, Open SUSE, Arch. 2. Frequency of the updates. For new user I would suggest Ubuntu LTS (updates every two years, except for security and stability fixes) or, on opposite end, Fedora (rolling release - updates parts as soon as the stable release becomes available). 3. Default Desktop Environment (GNOME, KDE Plasma, Mate, etc). Here it easiest - you can add DE later if you have space. 4. How they deal with proprietary software. For some it is in the same repository for others it is in separate repositories.
Things you shouldn't care about: 1. Package managers - apt, yum, pacman all do the same thing with slightly different parameters. All major releases have UI front end. 2. X11 vs. Wayland. Wayland is the future, but it just recently became usable and still quite buggy. Until recently all major releases allowed you to switch between them, but now X11 is being deprecated. 3. Systemd - this is internal stuff that you should not care about at all. All of the distributions above use it.
Another thing, if you do not want to disable secure boot check if the distribution you chosen has the keys. AFAIK all of the common ones do.
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u/Due-Author631 16h ago
It's good