Once Heat Retreat is done I'm planning to clean up my doc & create a public Anytype template from it others can use too

I use Anytype for my design doc & it's been great, especially as i'm starting to bring in collaborators. Personally I don't trust big tech firms, there's no shortage of cautionary tales of businesses getting locked out for BS reasons - even happened to me for a week

Yeah the reliance on Proton annoys me to no end, but there are devs who target Linux natively, and crazy bastards like me that build for Linux, in Linux (cross compiling to Win & Mac) 😅

Thanks! ❤️

Here's a look at an old variant of the shopping UI, don't have a good screenshot of it but this is pretty close to what it used to look like (old shopping has been crashing to desktop so can't get a good screenshot without rolling the code back *really* far)

Unfortunately every manufacturer handles BIOS/EFI differently so there's no "standard" or even "typical" way to get your specific hardware to boot off the USB; it'll take a little web sleuthing for your specific motherboard/PC brand. If all else fails, button mash F12 on boot

The first step is always hard, but it's worth it! Everyone starts in the same place, but with open source software there's no limit to what you can learn & do. Balena Etcher can handle setting up the USB drive using the image downloaded from linuxmint.com - the hardest part will be booting off it 1/

👍 I misread the reply chain

Admittedly I've got a lot (too much?) Linux expertise, but don't sell yourself short - just because something is unfamiliar doesn't make it necessarily hard. There's no harm in trying and you might surprise yourself 🙂

Ended up with tons of their shit from past jobs & relatives giving me devices (like the phone). I will never spend another dollar on this trash & am committed to steering people clear of it.

Razer hardware is all garbage & their RMA sucks. My Kiyo doesn't work on USB-C at all, "pro" mechanical keyboards feel terrible to type on, several mice that never worked as advertised then bricked themselves during a firmware update (no factory reset either). And don't get me started on their phone

That's amazing! Congrats 🎉

The beauty of trying out a "live USB" first is there's zero commitment (aside from erasing everything on the USB stick). You can throw Mint Cinnamon on there, boot off it & if you don't like it just shut it down, unplug and your PC is unharmed. Rinse and repeat until you find a distro you like

Mint is one such distribution. When you see different editions, these are mostly just different desktop environments you can choose, with "Cinnamon" being the main one for Mint. KDE and Gnome are two other major DE's, and any of those three will work great

As a quick starting point, "Linux" isn't an OS on its own - it's just one piece. So we have "distributions" (aka "distros") that assemble all the pieces into something a normal human can use. One of those pieces is the "desktop environment" (DE) that covers the graphic interface you'll interact with

There's also a ton of step by step guides out there of varying degrees of quality you can find in a quick search, and also plenty of Discord servers & forums where you can ask questions (I even run my own server about game dev in Linux where I'm happy to help out, linked in my bio)

The official instructions to create the bootable USB drive are where you'll want to go linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bu... followed by linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bo... to get your PC to boot off it