@somewhatcyclops That's cool. I have been playing with various distros for many years. I haven't used Linux as a primary desktop in a while due to my 2-in-1 laptop hardware not being fully supported and there's some things I do I'd rather not do in a windows VM and sometimes wine can be a pain - thinking of possibly dual booting
@conserveletters I would definitely recommend it, I dual booted Linux and Windows (I had a job where I had to use Windows) for five years with zero complaints (once I got grub set up properly, of course)
@somewhatcyclops I haven't played with dual booting for a while - have done VM's and I have a Raspberry Pi running pi-hole to block ads network-wide.
I actually like windows 11 for the most part but searching for files is terrible compared to spotlight on the mac and was wondering if it would be much better in windows if it was my daily driver.
@conserveletters I recently switched to macintosh as my primary driver (went creative instead of continuing forward in healthcare IT / data stuff and wanted a platform the farthest away I could get - ha!). Have been blown away by spotlight and have not seen its like in Windows.
I was always bummed Microsoft didn't make good on the rumor to go SQL for their file system, their search is sad.
@somewhatcyclops I meant "any better in linux" in that last reply. Yeah I've been a mac fan for a long time but really enjoy having a touchscreen more than I thought I would.
@conserveletters here! I had to retire my Win7 laptop and wad determined not to go to WI does 10 or worse, 11.
@hfinyow I'm using windows 11 and overall don't hate it but search is still awful and if I can get wine to run the 1 or 2 windows programs I use I'd be happy. I do like the touch screen and the fingerprint reader and am not sure if pen input also is fully supported and which distro would be best on a lenovo yoga 2-in-1?
@conserveletters I've been running Linux exclusively on my personal hardware for well over 10 years now. I dual-booted for close to 15 before that.
@conserveletters I've been exclusively running Pop OS since I bought a new PC earlier this year. My Windows machine died a while back so I figured it was a good time to make the jump.
@kaehlys Are you running it on a desktop or laptop? I have a lenovo yoga and have tried several distros but can not get the brightness buttons or the fingerprint reader to work - it's not one of their linux certified models and after exhaustive searches to try getting it working I have given up. My next laptop I will research the hardware compatibility better
@conserveletters I bought a Thelio desktop from System76, but before that I was running Pop on an 8+ year old Toshiba laptop for a while, to get a feel for it before I committed.
@conserveletters My 'media center' runs Mint