What are some preparations you think people should know about in advance of migrating to Linux?

For example, I saw a post the other day detailing how to set up a Brother laser printer on Kinoite. That's not something I would have initially considered a potential problem to be solved. Another I ran into some years ago had to do with an Edimax WiFi dongle that used some weirdly specific Realtek 8812 radio, for which you had to set up the driver via dkms. A little prep and knowledge in advance would have saved days of searching online.

I've started a personal to-do list of things to research and make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I make the full-time switch on my main desktop, so besides the usual "back up your files" advice, I'm hoping y'all can point out some QoL things I and others may often miss!

hellofriend ,

If your terminal tells you to input a highly specific, full-length sentence, do not input that sentence. Linus.

shiroininja ,

yeah I have a weird wifi dongle that runs the driver via dkms. It was a pain for years, because with every major driver update I had to reinstall it. But the last time I installed it, the repo I found had an autoinstaller, so now it gets automatically gets added when the kernel updates. what a life saver.

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List off the apps you use, find alternatives or figure out what you can run in wine if necessary.

Learn a little about your distro’s file structure and differences. It can save you hours troubleshooting.

Stay away from nvidia cards where possible, nothing but problems till I moved to AMD.

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