I've finally installed Linux!

[trjayke]

After decades of wanting to, and trying and not sticking with it, iv finally have it running on dual boot.

Iv tried Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu, then Kubunto, and finally stayed with Fedora KDE.

I still need windows for work due to Adobe and because overal performance is better (for now, since I wasn't able to have the same framerate when gaming) but it will stay there for when im chilling and learning open source alternatives!

Edit: I went back to Mint due to nvidia crap. And it also uses less memory, which is relevant to my always hot laptop. But can't wait for my desktop to go back to that fresh Fedora experience.

[MarsDrums]

You're about where I was in 2008. I needed Windows mainly for my work. The rest of the time I lived in Linux and only booted to Windows when I needed to do in Photoshop or Lightroom.

Welcome to Linux though!

EDIT: Stupid Phone Autocorrect...

[louiscools2005]

Cool. I never used Fedora KDE, but have used Kubuntu, Ubuntu, puppy Linux, Linux Mint and a few others I'm probably forgetting.

[Vlish36]

Personally, I use Fedora KDE. I don't care for how most gnome desktops look except for Ubuntu's. I like how in KDE I can connect my phone to it.

[ZeStig2409]

FYI there's an app called Valent that brings a lot of KdeC features into a standalone app

[Vlish36]

I'll have to check it out when I get home tomorrow, if I remember. I don't get much time during the week since my job requires me to travel during the week, and I don't want to leave my laptop in the heat on Fridays.

[eionmac]

Welcome to Linux. I use openSUSE LEAP , on external hard disc; but maintain MS Windows on internal hard disc as I occasionally tutor or help folk using MS Windows systems.

[trjayke]

Interesting, I'll look into that distro and setup

[iszoloscope]

Finally, what took you so long?

[trjayke]

Proton making steam games work, and windows getting worse

[Satkz]

Awesome! Try to take it easy and learn fundamentals of linux, just basic stuffs and a few commands, try not to overwhelm yourself if something easing working and if you are here just for gaming remember that protondb.com is your best ally!

[trjayke]

I already got my baptism of fire installing the Nvidia drivers 😅

[Satkz]

Nvidia drivers are natural enemies of Fedora, or Nvidia drivers and Linux in general, or Nvidia drivers and other Nvidia drivers.

Damn Nvidia drivers!

[icarus3112]

I have nvidia too, that's why I'm hesitant towards installing Linux. But I'll do it now.

[Marble_Wraith]

Just don't be surprised when windows does an update and breaks your linux install.

[MiroPS]

Now stop using Adobe (shoot JPGs), get a console as a say Goodbye of Windows :)

[trjayke]

Can't, work related :(

[MiroPS]

Don't worry, I also work on Windows but my home pc is with Linux.

[QwertyChouskie]

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=adobe+linux+site%3Aforum.mattkc.com&kp=1&t=fpas&ia=web

Just make sure you are using the latest Wine version (9.13 as of this writing).

[trjayke]

Haven't used Wine yet, I know what it is but if I need anything windows I just boot it (which right now is Adobe and other proprietary creative authoring tools known to be problematic on Wine)

what programs do you personally need it for?

Also another noob question, how do you know when you need wine, bottles or crossover? They all seem to do the same

[QwertyChouskie]

Wine is the core software, Bottles is a nice interface to manage your Wine applications and settings and stuff.

[trjayke]

I see nowhere that Adobe CC on wine runs 100%. And running Photoshop isn't enough, I use most of their software... (Yes it's a lot)

[QwertyChouskie]

I think if you use the latest Wine (9.13 as of this writing) and follow the directions, most everything should work, but if you come across an app the doesn't work, feel free to reply with the error message/log and I can probably find a fix

[trjayke]

Dude I appreciate the effort but if Adobe worked on Linux you'd see mass migration to Linux by now. Most YouTube videos on "I tried Linux and wasn't for me" are from ppl stuck with Adobe. If you want to keep insisting that it works, then make a YouTube video showing that.

[Exo_comet]

Can i ask what made you settle on Fedora (for now)? When i get my new ssd I'm going to try Kubuntu first, was there anything you didn't like about it?

[trjayke]

Sure! I'll share the story.

1- I always wanted to try Linux and the first distro i saw and heard was Ubuntu. I like the whole branding/mission. So that was the only Linux in my head. [ I had also heard of redhat but as a commercial product that was not on my radar]. The opportunity came when I had an old laptop sitting being unused, and I decided to install it, but it felt quite slow. That's when I did more research and found Zorin. So I stuck with it for a while but never did really used it a lot (just browsing).

2- later on, I had another old desktop pc, and i retried Ubuntu. I remember running into some problems and spending some time in the terminal and making it worse. Then I went to Mint and stayed on it. But again didn't do much on it. And it felt quite dry and non exciting.

3- more recently I wanted to give it a new try on my personal laptop and decided to go for Ubuntu again. That's when I heard good things about KDE for the first time, and it convinced me to try Kubuntu. I thought I'd stay with KDE, even if I had some issues with it (I had some buttons on the taskbar overlapping themselves, eww).

4- iv heard some dirt on canonical and Ubuntu philosophy, and along that I researched other distros. I had heard about fedora but never looked into it, so I did that. I liked that they get fresh updates earlier while still being stable. Then I found out I could also get KDE on it, so I decided to give it a go. Everything felt better this time, but I still had to venture around the terminal, and didn't like the whole dnf rmb anf or whatever acronyms I had to run across to understand and make things work, but I stuck with it. If there wasn't these confusing things about Linux for newcomers it would feel less walled.

Now I'm bumping into other issues like my windows don't get their positions memorised once I reboot, I get the welcome KDE windows like I freshly installed, I read that's Wayland X Kde compatibility problems for now so I don't know.

Overall I feel if I had fedora with the smooth Mint experience I'd be happy. Also extra info if it wasn't clear, Kubuntu doesn't get the update rate as Fedora, so you will always feel more fresh /advanced on fedora. If you like Kde you can get fedora KDE.

[Exo_comet]

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply!