• ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    So glad I made the switch to Mint back when the EoL for win10 was announced. It has “just worked” with a bit of research beforehand. I like it way more than win10 - looks better, feels better, runs everything I want it to (except games with kernel level anticheat, but whatever), hardware is under less strain and PC no longer sounds like a jet engine. No regrets at all.

    And, another perk I didn’t hear as much about, it is really easy to automate stuff. For instance, I play CloneHero streaming from my PC on an Nvidia Shield on a controller with a USB dongle plugged into the shield (shield doesn’t do that normally, linux allowed me to connect to the dongle over wifi with a little finagling) and I have it set up to automatically connect to my computer any time it’s plugged in. I also have certain files set to automatically back up to cloud storage with a simple crontab task (automatically repeating tasks are very easy via crontab).

    Mint may not be as fancy as a lot of other distros, but damn if it doesn’t work well.

    • Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      17 hours ago

      Repeating tasks is a trivial thing on windows too, at least since xp - though I wouldn’t doubt this sort of thing might require a professional edition.