Now I’m sitting and thinking if there’s anything I forgot to move from Windows to Linux (even though I didn’t “move”, I just installed it side by side and everything on Windows is still there). Also Windows is here to stay since I can’t play Warzone on Linux, so I will have to use Windows too and that’s fine. I just don’t want to use Windows everyday.
@pawel I basically have the same setup. Been dual-booting for years now and only really boot into windows when I want to play particular games.
Though, with how steam is advancing things, I think I might end up taking the leap and removing my windows install completely soon.
How are you enjoying things?
@iambenzo honestly it looks and feels just like macos (I've tried to make it this way since I'm still and was for a very long time macos user). I enjoy being able to use console to do stuff and finally to have the same OS on all of my desktops (remote servers included).
Unfortunately Warzone for example is using kernelsomething cheat detection so I don't think I'm gonna be able to play Warzone on Linux anytime soon but that's fine. On the daily basis I'm playing only MTG: Arena and it had some weird bug that made it crash my whole PC on Windows (and on Linux it works perfectly fine, even fans aren't spinning that much!).
Any tips for a first time Ubuntu user (or first time in a very, very, very long time)? Anything you've picked up what changed your life for better?
@pgronkievitz @iambenzo well, yes
@pawel It really depends what kind of work you do on your system.
One thing I’ve made sure to do is install my web browser (firefox) from an apt repo, rather than as a snap package - it means that I can open html pages from my filesystem without having to fiddle…although that only impacts me when using ‘cargo doc’.
I also prefer tiling window managers over having a dock and draggable windows. Not sure if it’s something you’d be interested in but I use i3wm and rofi as my launcher.
@pawel What kind of things do you do on your computer?
@iambenzo most of the time it's slack and browser honestly, 99% of my work is just that. Privately - similar but add some games on top of that, so it's mostly i'd say casual usage (but I'm pushing that casual usage to extreme for example with tabs or browser windows), so nothing too fancy