My experience with Linux Mint

Recently I purchased a CyberPower PC (Ryzen 5 5500, RTX 4060 8GB) to play games, and run AI work loads (images, LLMs).

Unfortunately there was alot of Windows bloatware on it which made me feel sad, so I decided to install Linux Mint Cinnamon1 on it.

The install algorithm was something like this:

  1. Download Mint .iso
  2. Flash2 image to drive
  3. Reboot PC and press alot of F keys (as the B550m only shows the load screen for a second)
  4. Boot from Mint
  5. Wipe Windows out
  6. ???
  7. Profit

It’s nice to see the source code3 of the software. I was surprised to see that 41% was written in JavaScript. For example here’s the code for the clock applet.

I might add Windows as an option later for gaming but only if I need it. It would be cool if the world used more open source software instead of being forced by e.g .Windows / Apple / Google or whomever to run software or pay for things they didn’t ask for.

  1. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/16l9ufr/what_linux_distro_should_i_pick/ â†Šī¸Ž
  2. https://etcher.balena.io/ â†Šī¸Ž
  3. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon â†Šī¸Ž

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