Hello! Just coming to share how I've been when moving over to this new operating system! And my own troubles as a newbie.
Soooooooo! A month ago, I had been eyeing privacy concerns, wanting to make my security unmatched to others I knew, As well as have backups for everything I make. (This was solved with my NAS, running something Debian based! But still not that good.)
With this switch, I had wanted to keep an open mind, But still put up expectations of what I wanted to work, And do when I start moving over. There were things I also didn't know, But with this. The steps I took were.
- Making sure I can easily transfer files to this new operating system.
I was trying to put files that purposely matter to me on my NAS and a flash drive. Until I booted into Zorn OS, With a dual boot! (I did two installations. One of which i broke grub. Let's not.. Talk about it..)
I didn't know a bit later into booting into the actual operating system, I could just natively read NTFS. And even transfer files out of it- So, I started moving over smaller games, and stuff stored in app data! I also wish Linux had such convent folders that windows had established. And to top that, I wish Linux had an active option with Flatpak to install apps to another drive, Akin to the Microsoft store or any game launcher…
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Look and feel
This should have gone first, But with one eye to every distro, And one to Zorin. I knew it was going to be the same feel of Windows 11, Basically with some things not being there. -
What wasn't there.
Emoji's/Clipboard feature you can utilize on Windows. It is a simple feature that allows you to find your clipboard and paste older things into a document, Or text bar! And allows the ability to type out emoji's onto your text bar, Wherever your cursor is. These apps have been adapted to Zorin os, But you can't have both at the same time with this same shortcut as windows. (Ctrl + .) And another thing I disliked, Is the native version of zorin's wine, having no ability to change out wine versions with a GUI. So natively opened apps (What zorin allows) Can be WineGE. Or modified versions. -
Broken things. (We all know this.)
DaVinci resolve with an AMD card, broken. You cannot decode h264. We all know this one, But i have to repeat this, As any creator would need. To know this.
AMDGPU's, This.. This is a long topic, Which will be talked about in another thread! I actually hope to resolve this issue, Because there's a lot I don't know, And I want help understanding. But basically, Installing blender, does not. Allow you to use hip. Something native to AMD GPU's! On Windows. I know that you can use your AMD GPU just fine with this, But this isn't going to be a good thing if you want to do serious development tasks with blender, Without enabling this. So please, don't comment on this. Instead, refer to another opened post I will make shortly after.
No proper recovery mode. This goes for both the USB installer, There are times when you can delete stuff that can entirely break your system, But since this is not windows. You have no actual way of recovering it and keeping everything on a root drive. (With my second install, I mapped my root drive and a home drive to a new partition cause i knew this would be an issue of needing to keep reinstalling the operating system with the dumb things i wanted to do. "Don't Do It." Yeah, I agree. And one of the ways I get around it is by sandboxing an operating system and doing it in that vm instead.)
Still. I love this operating system! I wish there was a choice of installing specific apps that are commonly used with it. Like gnome tweaks, Or Lutris. Or just being able to choose your browser by default instead of being forced to preinstall Firefox.
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The Conclusion
I have a lot to set up and get working with this operating system as i daily drive it. But I hope some internal things are done to make it compete. Even if the operating system may not seek it. I want it to stand on its own having thing's Ubuntu can't do easily, As a statement that this operating system can do easier. If that is achieved. I'll have no struggle recommending this operating system to my own newcomers, Without wanting them to second guess themselves using Linux. (When those friends play Valorant, Fortnite, Or any games using incompatible anticheats. I have to second guess them, This is always a requirement :kekw:) But with that, That's all I have to talk about with my experience. This may have been scattered, And it may have points where you won't. Understand what I meant. But i at least hope you did hear and already know the things that kept me struggling with the setup of this new OS! And that how I speak, gives you an interest in seeing more of my own talks, If you want to do that. -
Self promo
Then ask about this section! I won't say much, But put an image here to also attract people to this post when it's indexed.
, Without the 30gb in size drivers, I could probably use time shift the way your recommending! But it's not letting me do anything at the moment-