awwwee...follow up question, I am running linux on my vbox only bcoz I am worried that some windows app that are critical to my work is not goin to work in Linux. I have been edging to move to Linux, any distru you can recommend with the above consideration?
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That's a somewhat involved conversation. What apps are you most worried about? Linux has most everything, and everything else is usually a web app. Happy to help :)
ty - capcut, diskdrill, alldupe & filesync, I am not sure Obsidian & Calibre are going to be a problem
Obsidian and Calibre both work on Linux, no problem.
CapCut has a web version, plus you probably use it on your phone anyway, right?
DiskDrill doesn't have a Linux version, but honestly when's the last time you needed data recovery? There are great Looking based options when you do.
AllDupe/FileSync don't have Linux versions, but what are you actually using them for? There are tons of alternatives (dupeGuru for duplicates, Syncthing/FreeFileSync for syncing, or privacy options like Nextcloud). Just depends what you need.
You'll be fine switching over! If you think of any others essentials we didn't discuss, let me know.
Linux takes a little preparation and some getting used to at first, but once you Linux, it's very hard to go back. I've been using Fedora since 1999.
ty this is very promising. I have been pondering it since last year. I prioritised my 15 yrs of data from cloud to my own care last year. This is when I f*ckd up my migration and forgot my backed-up that stalled my OS migration to Linux. One critical software I have atm is vercrypt. Am I right that Linux has different encryption than veracrypt?
Oof. It happens. NextCloud is free and amazing for self hosting data. Though not open source, a Synology NAS is a great place to start. And yes, VeraCrypt is open source and runs on Linux. :)
Fedora KDE is pretty good. It'll feel similar to Windows if you like that environment. Fedora works particularly well with ThinkPad in my experience. Probably the best I've had in about 16 years of daily driving Gnu/Linux.
Fedora came out in my research too. ☺️ Ty
+1 You know I love Fedora KDE Plasma. Posted about it so much. Had to bounced back to Windows due to a kernel issue with my Lenovo dock. It was good to play with Windows again. Keeping my chops up, and productivity is important... but with the release of 43, I've already started the move back. :)
They've had kernel issues on some of my other hardware lately. I'm not sure why. I have to drop back a kernel or two until one day the latest boots again. It's weird and they should figure it out. That said, I've historically ran Fedora -1 version and only upgrade once the previous loses updates. I never had these problems until running the latest updates. I've always thought they should have a 'stable' version that's -1 but with security patches. Staying behind requires a little effort in that you have to ignore the GUI updater constantly offering the upgrade.
But I generally use the terminal. They can do better on the GUI and stability front lately.