Just tried out Linux Mint

5/20/2026

Hello! How are you?

This is gonna be a short blog, but it what says on the tin: I'm gonna try out Linux Mint.

Here is a comparasion of two laptops, one on the left is Windows (10), the right is Linux (Mint).

_{This one is Windows 10, modified to look like Windows 7. As for some software that were preinstalled via Windows 10, I just simply deleted them. Luckily, it didn't have Candy Crush preinstalled or some shit!}

_{This one is Linux Mint. The theme is Chicago95. If you ever wonder how I got Notepad++, It's just installed via Wine (i.e Right click Notepad++.exe, click "Open with other application" and type "wine".)}

I don't really have a bad experience with Windows, I can understand why people hate Windows now (especially since Windows 11 is such a mess).

I don't know if I should switch to Linux Mint (since I use Paint.Net as an pic editor, which I put texts like signature on my arts, so maybe switch to GIMP as editing? Might fully switch to Krita) but I might use my Windows laptop as a backup or something like that.

UPDATE (5/20/2026):

_{This is what my Linux Mint desktop looks like right now. I'm getting used to it easily. I think that Linux is quite better than Windows since no bloatware bullshit.}