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Cake day: June 8th, 2023
  • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orgtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Help me decide if I can switch to Linux, I have some questions
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    1 month ago

    A lot of great advice from others here. Must admit i didnt read your whole post, pretty long. So this is more of general advice for switching. Also fairly long, so i dont blame you if you dont read this whole thing lol

    I feel like you should find a good way to dip your toes into linux before you fully commit. Dual booting can be complicated, and will break from time to time. You should either spin up a virtual machine, or install linux on an old pc or laptop to test the waters, and figure out your new workflow. This is really my main piece of advice. Use both for a while.

    Try to use linux the linux way, dont try to use it the way you use windows. A year or so ago LTT did a series of videos where they were using linux exclusively for a month. I was constantly frustrated when they tried to do things like manually copy files to the non user filesystem. You generally should never do that, and there is usually a location in your user directory that a program will also look for these files. You obviously won't know what the linux way to do things is right away, but that's part of why you want to use both windows and linux for a while. You will likely break your system at some point doing things wrong, when you dont know its wrong. Then just reinstall fresh and go again.

    You should get a passing familiarity with the command line. You can do a majority of stuff in the gui, but when you run into problems, most advice online will use command line because it is mostly universal between distros and desktop environments. Linux is basically command line first, with a ton of great graphical front ends on top of it.

    I expect the biggest pain points will be proprietary software that you might miss. Despite the claims of the linux evangelicals, there is not a good replacement for photoshop depending on what you use it for. Gimp works well for photo editing, but when i worked in marketing and had to pump out a bunch of ads quickly, it was a bit much to use gimp for. Just using that as an example. Stuff like this will be a major adjustment.

    Ive been using linux almost exclusively for over 20 years, so i dont have much insight on how to make an easy transition. In fact when i have to use windows for work or something, i generally set it up with more of a linux workflow. Using lots of command line software etc

    Good luck, have fun, and dont get too frustrated when things break!

  • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orgtotechnology•Is there a good way to run android apps on desktop?
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    2 months ago

    You definitely dont need a new os or distro.

    I dont know endevour specifically, but xfce and kde look like they fully support wayland.

    Looks to be as simple as installing plasma-wayland-session then log out and you should have an option in your login manager to swap over to the wayland version of plasma. Xfce should be similar. If its fucked, just log back out and log in with xorg and go about your business.

    Dunno, just trying to help

  • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.orgtotechnology•Is there a good way to run android apps on desktop?
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    2 months ago

    Can confirm waydroid works fine.

    Also i dont know what its running under the hood, but i just installed minecraft bedrock launcher flatpak on my steamdeck. Which runs the android version.

    Waydroid can be sorta annoying to set up, id suggest not taking any shortcuts and install the base waydroid package then following the instructions on archwiki or whatever to manually install the appropriate container (gapps etc) rather than using the container package from your distro.

    I havent set this up in probably over a year so between my foggy memory and potential changes, take this as you will