LibreOffice’s UI is fine on Linux, on Windows not so much. OnlyOffice is a good alternative for Windows

This happened to me once and I had to redo my coursework over the weekend…now I use Fedora :D

woah, that’s a lot of information. Atomic distros do sound pretty good. I might try one someday, but I’ve already setup Fedora Workstation and am very happy with it :D

Aside from this issue, Fedora has been great! Everything works as expected, UI is fast and snappy, and somehow the file system seems to be a bit faster too (read/write speeds are more consistent)

maybe

I have thought it might be because dual booting makes the drivers confused or soemrhing

my network controller is “Intel Corporation Raptor Lake PCH CNVi WiFi” (after running “lspci”, there doesn’t seem to be any other network-related ones besides that)

Yeah, my phone’s download speeds are fine (>100MB/s)

I’m using a laptop, so I would guess probably a built-in Intel one.

Just generally installing things like blender, inkscape, etc. normally takes around a minute on Windows (before dual booting) but is estimated like over 2 hours on both Fedora and Windows (after dual booting) since speeds are sub 100KB/s…

I’ve backed everything up to both the cloud and an SD card, now I’m installing Fedora Workstation!

On KDE Plasma vs GNOME, I would like to try both out and see which I like better long-term. KDE Plasma seems a bit more familiar (closer to Windows 10) whereas GNOME is a bit more different but I’m open to using either.

1. a laptop with an Intel i7-1360P. It’s one of those 2-in-1 convertible 360 degree hinge laptops.
2. I would say I’m open to learning how to work with the terminal and customising the distro a bit, but I don’t want to do anything too out of my scope. I don’t want to spend too many hours setting it up, I’d rather have something that works mostly out of the box :D
3. Stable as I don’t want to break my system after an update. I still want an up-to-date distro though. I am open to rolling release distros, but to my knowledge those are usually less stable with more breaking changes than fixed release options.

Also, how are the “immutable” distros from UB different from the “mutable” distros? Does it just mean that you’re unable to change system-level settings and such/break anything with a mistyped terminal command? What are the downsides to using an immutable distro?

I want a more stable distro, so I’m not considering the rolling release options (like manjaro and EndeavourOS). I’ve also heard that not many people like Ubuntu because of snaps, why is that?

edit: are rolling release distros stable enough (e.g. will it randomly crash/have weird issues?) and is it possible/easy to roll back to a previous version if there’s a breaking update

I’ve heard that Mint doesn’t play well with DEs that aren’t Cinnamon (or Mate/XFCE), is that still an issue? Also, do the benefits of Mint (not requiring the terminal for everything) vanish if you KDE Plasma or GNOME?

I wasn’t too familiar with Linux so didn’t know that you’re able to just change out the DE really easily on any distro.

I’m probably not going to have two DEs permanently installed together, I am hoping to make it easier to swap between the two to see which I prefer. Once I decide which one I like using I’ll likely uninstall the other

Ohh interesting. So I could simultaneously compare things like GNOME and KDE’s built-in software without repeatedly restarting. Nice.

Damn, you can just choose from the login manager? You don’t get ANYTHING like this on Windows! Crazy that you can just swap out the whole GUI of your OS like that

I’ve decided to switch since nearly all the programs I use are either cross-platform (e.g. Inkscape) or have good Linux alternatives (e.g. Okular rather than SumatraPDF). The only hiccups I might get would be games, but I only really play a few retro games w/ emulators and just a couple games (the latter of which I’ve checked are all supported by Proton). Also, if I do run into issues with games, I can always just partition like 100GB for Windows and the rest for my distro of choice.

unfortunately could not fix my issue :(