Linux Mint

I don't know, or I guess not wanting to take time late at night to be click clacking away like quickly, loudly on my mechanical keyboard.

Um, I ended up using an old laptop that I got from an old job that I have Linux mint on.

Um, and I installed, uh, typing in the dead overkill there.

Um, So I played not every, I think the first two levels I played at my gaming PC with my mechanical keyboard and then the rest were on a little Lenovo think pad for the rest of it.

Ubuntu was fine.

Add a few issues with Linux Mint and Ubuntu, but Fedora, no problem.

You feel a sense of absolute ownership over the machine.

There are no hidden processes stealing your precious CPU circles.

It does like three big ones of those just so you get a good bearing and then you can customize a little bit from there.

But if you don't want to do that and you just want out of the box... look that's where these other distributions come in in my mind so I'm gonna just go through some of them Kubuntu it's like a KDE version so you can look at KDE Ubuntu there's Lubuntu which is like a lightweight Ubuntu it doesn't come with a lot of the nice aesthetics but it can work on a really old machine just fine there's kde neon which is like a newer version of kde that looks pretty snazzy there's peppermint and elementary which are just offshoots i don't recommend them but they're very very popular so that's there when i come into this i always recommend people go to this one which is linux mint It has a really good Windows vibe to it.

So if you're coming from Windows to the Linux world, Linux Mint's usually, I say, that's where you should start.

If you don't like Linux Mint, try Ubuntu.

If you want a different look and feel, it's just a little bit harder getting around when you're first coming to it.

But this is a great starting point.

And most of those are universal for all these distributions.

However, the two main distributions you should be focused on is Debian and Ubuntu.

That being said, my use case on my laptop is fairly limited.

So Luke, the first time around, was doing Linux Mint.

I really like Luke.

I think he's kind of really taken to the whole spirit of Linux.

But the reason for that was because my experience was limited mostly to a browser.

So I kind of want to continue the Arch experiments, but in a way that the community is mostly flagging right now as better for gaming, which is going the cache-y direction.

I still love Linux Mint, still use it in a couple spots here or there.

I agree with that.

But better options.

Linux Mint.

Fantastic.

If you're a new user, Linux Mint's great.

Fedora, also very solid.

That's what's been solid for many years.

Bazite if you're a gamer and you just kind of want things to work right out of the box and you don't really want to tinker with anything.

That's a decent distro.

I'm going to say this right out.

I would suggest that this individual spend two to three hours doing research, go to LinuxMintOS.com, download Linux Mint, and install it side by side with 11.

You'll have a dual boot system.

You can go back and forth, but Linux Mint, you'll love it.

You play with that for a couple hours, and I would also suggest that you use the desktop XFCE.

I'm not real high on Cinnamon, and the other one is Mate, and the next one is actually built on Debian, so it's a pure, a little bit more raw Linux, but XFCE, it will remind you of Windows XP, and people say, oh, that's for older computers.

It's not that difficult.

Once you get it all lined up and you know, got a good plan to flow on and you've got your USB, bootable USB created so you can boot up and go.

If you're brand new, you've watched my entire series and you're like, you know what? I'm a lifetime Windows user and I'm jumping into Linux.

get linux mint um i've i you know i think i bashed in a prior video um but it's basically almost a direct fork of ubuntu but it's more tailored to a windows user and it's a far easier break-in than anything else it'd be my hands-down recommendation if you're going to do this and you don't know anything about linux linux mint's going to be your best bet it's it's good.

It's a good transition period and get your feet wet, so to speak.

And as for me, what will I do going forward? Am I sticking with Ubuntu? If I'm going back to Fedora, all these other things? Well, I'm using Fedora at my work and that's mainly just because I have so much crap and I'm doing a lot of things on a day-to-day basis.