Finally, after some time I made the switch to #Linux !

🧵1/2

Here is my experience and the hiccups I found :
- It was hell to find how to boot on the USB drive. You needed to disable secure boot and it didn’t tell you that anywhere, as far as I can tell
- It was easy enough to set up, connect to wifi etc
- Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs
- The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized
- Keyboard shortcuts changed, for example screenshots can’t be done using Win Shift S, the clipboard history doesn’t work by default etc
- The key to mute my mic doesn’t work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.
- I like how typing the name of software from windows like paint and notepad gives the linux equivalent
@linux

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    5·
    20 hours ago

    The key to mute my mic doesn’t work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.

    some manufacturers use a driver to handle media keys (for telemetry, mostly)

    showkey -s

    Will print the scan codes in the terminal, press your media keys and see if they generate scan codes. showkey is part of the kbd package if it isn’t already installed.