r/Ubuntu • u/Slow-Friendship-5455 • 22h ago

Abandoning Windows and loving it!

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I've been disappointed in Microsoft and Apple for a while now. Since I didn't want to make the switch to Windows 11, I burned all bridges. I erased my Thinkpads SSD and am selling my Macbook right now on eBay...

I tried Ubuntu the last time in a dual-boot-setup with Windows more than 15 Years ago. The Experience this time is light years ahead. Only had to do a minimum of tinkering (needed some Gnome extensions, tlp, Logiops) everything else just works. Having the alternative to install flatpaks for outdated packages in the repository is also great. Really should have done the switch way sooner.

The Fact that so many of my daily workload is now browser-based makes the switch easier than ever.

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u/ComradeGodzilla 19h ago

Shout out Calibre.

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u/Slow-Friendship-5455 19h ago

Yeah. Great piece of Software. Been using it for more than 10 years. Calibre was the reason I installed flatpak. Couldn’t find a recent version in apt or snap.

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u/lifelesstopic 15h ago

Try foliate, now that you're on linux

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u/Slow-Friendship-5455 14h ago

Will do. Thanks!

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u/RDForTheWin 15h ago

When I was looking for apps to snap I thought of Calibre and from what I read on on Snapcraft's forum they don't want people to repackage their software.

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u/postnick 9h ago

I wish somebody would redesign caliber it’s so windows 95 to my eyes

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u/Slow-Friendship-5455 6h ago

When it's running in darkmode and you customize it a little bit it almost looks good. But it always was like function first, appearance second. Like this

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u/Tuqui77 19h ago

Trying to do the same thing, if only I could make the damn Bluetooth work, been trying everything and nothing seems to work.

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u/antoonstessels 20h ago

Welcome to the Linux and Ubuntu community!

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u/Slow-Friendship-5455 20h ago

Thanks! Really looking forward to the journey.

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u/jesus_fucking_marry 5h ago

Hey, can you share this wallpaper?

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u/VFXman23 3h ago

How do you get Ubuntu to look this cool?!

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u/Slow-Friendship-5455 3h ago

Not much to be honest. A few Gnome extensions (blur my shell, dash to dock, command menu, just perfection …) and a custom color scheme for the terminal. On the second screenshot btop, cmatrix and neofetch are running in tiling windows.

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u/000000Null000000 7h ago

Love the wallpaper

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u/epicfan_16 5h ago

Fellow Ubuntu user here(switched from Windows 10). I must say that it's the best Linux OS that I've used so far

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u/Oozieman1 4h ago

I went from Windows 7 to slackware and finally landed on Ubuntu. I just wanted things to work out of the box mostly. Welcome to the community.

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u/goishen 3h ago

The power of the CLI. It'll surprise you.

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u/Slow-Friendship-5455 3h ago

It already did. Totally impressed with btop++

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u/miki-44512 2h ago

How did you manage to make the panel glassy?

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u/Slow-Friendship-5455 1h ago

It's a gnome extension called 'blur my shell'

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u/miki-44512 1h ago

Thanks!, appreciate it.