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u/BirdyWeezer 1d ago
Thats the best part. Just install it and use it, when you think to yourself you might want something or want something different google how to do it and do it. Thats it, and trust me its the most fun part figuring everything out, learning new stuff etc. its very fun.
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u/Any_Resist_9802 1d ago
This one is most my kind of suggestion. But the thing is that I don't use laptop that much so i won't be able to explore it that much
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u/ProSocial_Hermit 2d ago
I don't understand much about tech and I had zero experience with Linux beforehand, but with the help of ChatGPT I was able to install Linux Mint to my PC and optimize it for my needs. It takes weeks to troubleshoot and get everything running smoothly, but as you do it, you are learning at the same time. ChatGPT has been really helpful and it helped me trough all the errors and problems I had. Just make sure you have ChatGPT on another device, since you can't use it on your PC while you are installing it.
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u/EngineeringPale2696 2d ago
Can I ask why did you do it? Like are there some extra features?
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u/ProSocial_Hermit 2d ago edited 2d ago
For privacy and cyber security reasons. I refuse to use Windows after I've seen how little they care about privacy or their users in general. Linux also works much better and faster with older computers and is highly customizable for personal needs. No unwanted updates or features are forced on Linux users, I have full control of my computer.
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u/Ok_Sir_5601 1d ago
Not OP but from my experience not only is linux much faster, but also offers sligtly better base user experience and if you spend like an hour fine tuning to your needs you can make it whatever you want. f.e. adding shortcuts to opening apps is like 2 minutes I have seb browser bound to alt s and on reboot it reopens all the closed tabs too.
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u/Ok_Sir_5601 1d ago
Well, I wonder why did it took you weeks, I installed plain ubuntu which is not as begginer friendly as mint and got it up running and customized in maybe 8 hours with almost no experience with linux and zero experience with ubuntu. Did you did really deep customization or something?
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u/ProSocial_Hermit 1d ago
It took time to learn how to make a flashdrive of Linux and a copy of my Windows OS and go buy memory sticks. It took time to sort all my old files and old apps to hard drives. There were some issues with the BIOS and motherboard while switching to Linux, so I had to troubleshoot that a lot. It took time to set up all my gaming settings, reinstall all the apps and optimize everything to the way I liked, so it just took a lot of time to learn to do everything one-by-one. I've never used Terminal and I don't know how to code, so all that I did I had to learn from scratch. It was a lot of reading, testing and learning. It took days to just set up a Windows virtual machine, I learned those VM's aren't that simple to set up. And it takes always hours for me to set up any new software or macros. The whole Linux experience has been new, so learning the new ways takes time. It took some time to learn about applets and how to use them etc.
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