...except, there really isn't much to talk about? It's an operating system that leaves me alone.

I feel like a large part of it was I did all the learning and trouble shooting on the old laptop. I also did a lot of learning about Linux before hand, and picked Kubuntu for ease of use. Most of my issues were solved by troubleshooting & reading guides.

For some of the bigger ones I ran into:

Plugging in a second monitor causes a freeze - NVIDIA GPU issue; the HDMI port on my device is controlled by the GPU. Installed the proprietary driver & this problem goes away.

Family printer wasn't responding - The printer needed updates & to be woken up before printing. I can use it without drivers.

Vintage Story (game) used integrated graphics instead of the GPU - Follow the official Wiki's installation guide.

Obsidian wasn't opening full screen - Add window rules to make it open full screen

Audio isn't as great - This one I still haven't figured out. But I feel like audio is slightly crunchy-er. It's more noticeable on bass-heavy tracks & genres with a lot of kicks (breakcore, gabber). Using an EQ knocks out most of the crunch, but I still need to experiment with this one.

And for other things I've noticed;

My laptop is way quieter on Kubuntu. I know this is partially because I cleaned the fans. But the one time I booted into Windows before installing Kubuntu hit me with fans while idling.

Installing packages is really fragmented. I think I have a loose grasp on which packaging format is best for what; Flatpaks & appimages for updated packages, and programs with a ton of dependencies (ex; Krita). Native for general use stuff & things that needs to pull from the system (ex; Discord for rich presences). It's good to have options I guess.

Wayland is less fussy than I thought it'd be. Most of the issues I've had with Krita were too minimal & rare to note as a problem (despite still being optimized for X11), and most of my GPU issues were resolved by installing the right driver. Maybe I lucked out, but it's nice none the less

Biasing FOSSware for my tools was a good investment. Most of them were ports of Linux software, so I only had to swap out a small handful of programs (text editor, music player, a few Powertoys Utilities)

Despite planning on dualbooting, I haven't felt a large need to boot back into Windows. It just works.

I think that sums it up. It just works. I can do art, browse the web, and go about my day without seeing another one drive ad. And the one PC game I'm fixated on has a native Linux version. But it doesn't leave much to talk about.

I feel like part of why I wanted to make a follow up is making more content. Especially with the recent waves of people making Linux videos, and a lot of people getting curious on switching over. But I think the post I wrote already covers my 'new-user-experience' and other things I wanted to note like the state of doing art on Linux, or why I wanted to do so in the first place.

I don't think metrics was a huge part of it. Maybe it's this weird sense of completion? Or with how often Linux testing videos hype it as a life-changing experience + wanting to switch for years, I expected more.

This shouldn't be taken as a bad thing; if anything, being able to do every-day tasks is a point for Linux. Unless I have a work-related thing that absolutely needs Windows or Mac I think I'll just stick to Linux going forward. But especially with the last part I'm left thinking about how I should post about my life & projects I'm doing going forward. I still want to post about Linux stuff, especially in regards to art troubleshooting or helping other artists make the switch over. But I also don't think "every post needs a purpose" is the right answer? idk, just something I want to keep in mind going forward.