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I use Revi. fresh install then immediately install Revi, gets rid of all the bloatware, copilot, onedrive, edge, etc.
I'd switch to a linux install but I just don't have to time to figure out which is the right one for me, installing it, configuring it, etc. I wish I did, wish I had the time to play around with it but I simply don't. (I mean maybe someone smarter than me can tell me a linux distro that will work with world of warcraft, steam, final fantasy xiv, etc) so I have to settle with win 11+revi
Ah, then you want Mint.
Mint, ive had no issue with any of those except WoW, whose issue is that I do not play it to test it. it even handled modded FNV better than Windows ever did once I figure out SteamTinkerLaunch
Dalamud (QuickXIVLauncher) even is on the distro software hub for easy download to your system, works great.
I just want to follow up and say "thank you so much!" I took the dive and partioned out space for Linux Mint. played around with it for a bit and said "fuck it, I love this thing" and did a fresh install on my laptop deleting windows 11.
Holy crap this thing has improved my laptop so much. it's so damn fast, boots up quicklly and believe it or not my battery lasts longer now. I just spent hours customizing how it looks, it's fun, it's great.
Also I was easilly about to install steam, elden ring, Final Fantasy XIV and even World of Warcraft and they all work, and run, better on this machine now.
WoW was actually pretty easy to get going in all honesty. Instead of installing WoW directly on Litrus instead you install Battle.net via Litrus and it simply does the rest, EVEN going that route allowed me to install other blizzard games like Hearthstone without doing anything special.
My only beef right now is I'm having issues customizing the panel like I want. Tried installing polybar and got in a bit over my head with i3wm but I'm sure I'll figure that stuff out soon. Got a cool app launcher going that makes things so much easier, even changed the shell and got zsh going which is great.
I love it, absolutely love it and won't be going back to Windows ever. I imagine once I get a handle of Mint I might switch to a different distro like Arch (I love the look of that and how people have customized it) but for now this is perfect.
I never saw your other comment asking for elaboration so I'm sorry for that, but super glad it's working out for ya! You sound exactly like I did when I first swapped lol
Good luck with the taskbar, we all find that one damn white whale!
awesome, I'm familiar with Dalamud, I'll give Mint a shot when I have some time. thank you very much.
I'm a total Linux noob though so should I be fairly good to go with Mint?
ooh boy, and I was going to do pop!OS on my main rig thinking mint wasn't good for gaming.
Mint is great, been using it for the past couple days and I've been able to get Elden Ring, FFXIV, WoW, Balatro, and FNV with a bunch of mods running on it very smoothly. all very easy to install. Steam games worked just like Windows for installing. WoW took a bit of extra steps but nothing difficult to do. Love Mint, it's so easy to use. It's like "hmm I wonder if I could customize or do this on it" and with Mint the answer 9 out of 10 times is yes.