So it took like three days to back up all of my files ever. Mainly it took a long time because I wanted a fallback cloud backup tooo.
But!! I installed debian on my computer the other day, and I’m pretty much all set up and ready to go now?? I still have a lot of files to sort through, I think. But all of the most important ones have been reorganised now!
I’ve been bad and installed apps that weren’t in the debian packages/repos already, but. I don’t like installing packages from unknown authors*? KDE stuff feels pretty safe for example, because the packages are authored by KDE and debian approved! But for stuff like Steam, there don’t seem to be official packages? So I’ve kinda just followed the instructions on the Steam website. Hopefully this works out ok and doesn’t explode my machine???
The only other issue I’ve had is more of a hardware thing! Somewhat predictably, my NVIDIA graphics card doesn’t play nice with the new operating system :') The open source drivers don’t really work well enough for playing 3D games/working in 3D as far as I can tell, and when I tried the proprietary drivers, my… my computer stopped booting. So, I got rid of those! And I’m back on the open source drivers. My graphics card is pretty old anyways, so I’m planning to just buy an AMD card when I can, since I’ve heard those have much better compatibility? I’ve got my eye on the Radeon RX 6800, since as far as I can tell it predates the AI stuff I don’t want on my machine.
That said I was pretty impressed when my drawing tablet just worked out of the box with pen-pressure and everything! I didn’t even need to install the XPpen drivers so that was nice :)
But yeah! It’s all been faiiirly smooth sailing! I’m pretty happy with my new desktop :)
*I might be missing something and maybe this is a completely fine thing to do because of open source, but yeah idk. I’m just not too keen on it.