by So, I think I’m switching to Linux Mint for good!
I installed it in this (new) laptop back in October, and have needed to boot to Windows 11 only twice since and HATED both times. I did the only the mandatory things there and booted back to Linux as quickly as I could and felt SO relieved to be back in Linux. I’m so terribly tempted to remove Windows entirely, I don’t want to keep it anymore – it just gets on my nerves.
I put Linux Mint on Mom’s old laptop something like a decade ago maybe (which originally ran the notorious Vista and was slow from the start), and she liked it so much I had her on it for like 6-8 years until even with Linux the laptop became quite slow (it was 14 years old at that point). Mom bought a new laptop in 2021 but when I tried to install Linux Mint in that because she wished it so, it seemed to go okay but when I tried to boot to Linux Mint, got errors. I didn’t have werewithal at the time to figure it out and Mom was okay with Windows 10/11 which still worked fine. But we got to talking about it again in October; Mom still misses Linux Mint/Ubuntu and I did love it, so I decided to try it out again and I instantly in LOVE with it so much again!
The last time I still needed Windows because there were a few Windows only programs I needed because of my fansites, but now I don’t really do fansites anymore and in the about 3 months I’ve now been using Linux Mint, I’ve either figured how to do everything I need or don’t actually need them anymore! Because I don’t do fansites anymore as extensively as I used to.
Mom said that she’s totally okay if I put only Linux Mint on her laptop again – if I can figure out the errors – and get rid of Windows. So now I’m putting Linux Mint on my old laptop so I can give it to her for the time being – I’ll have to bring her laptop home with me, so I can troubleshoot it in peace and see what I can figure out. I already have some ideas what it could be, having done more in-depth research to make sure I can install Linux Mint to dual boot with Windows 11. But it’ll likely take some days at the minimum to get it all ready, so Mom and her SO need a laptop for the duration.
I’ve been also using only Linux for four years now. Windows was always getting slower and slower over time, it was really frustrating when I was working online during the pandemic so I decided to switch to Linux completely. At work I was already using Linux anyway so I was familiar with it. It’s quite surprising that Linux is not more popular, it’s free, more stable than Windows and it doesn’t actually seem to be less user-friendly than Windows.