Trying Mint

[ninja01]

I am trying Mint for the first time, after a very long experience in using Windows from win xp (My best version to date) to win10 (Hopefully my last version).

So I am curious here, who's using Linux?

And what kind of things you can try in Mint?

Thanks for reading))

[Ganado]

I am using Mint on my laptop. My experience so far has been generally positive. Graphics stuff worked mostly out of the box. Had to manually install a driver to get some sort of dock/usb hub to work.

The dumb thing to me is hibernation being so hard to enable. You need to manually set up a bunch of stuff from the command-line to get it to work. I've also been having power problems in general, like the screen not coming back on after going to sleep/suspend.

I'm ok with tinkering to get it to work, but it's not the sort of thing I would recommend to a non-technical family member. Still less frustrating than Windows though :)
I really like the Linux filesystem over Windows.
Mounting phones in Linux is bug-free for me, while it's riddled with bugs in Windows.

[ninja01]

Thank for replying @Ganado))

I really like the Linux filesystem over Windows.

I thought Windows system is far better. For example, currently i am struggling in renaming files. In Windows you just click and click again, it is faster. In Mint you have either to rename from menu or f2.

[zapshe]

with Windows subsystem for Linux, I really lost any real need for Linux. Seems mostly useful to cut out Windows bloat and nonsense.

[ninja01]

This is my third day with Mint, and I am loving it))

[ninja01]

What do you do when it freezes?

In windows, you can try things like:
1) start+d.
2) Alt+f4
3) Esc
4) Or even call the Task manager like Ctrl+Shift+Del

Any ideas?