RE: Moving from Windows to Linux
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I have to use Windows for work, but dumped it at home many years ago as I hated how it tried to limit what I could do. I have a Win10 partition, but very rarely use it. I've used flavours of Ubuntu for most of this time. I seem to prefer KDE and so used Kubuntu for a while, but now on Ubuntu Studio that has used KDE for the last few versions.
I'm not a gamer, so that aspect is fairly irrelevant to me. I do scan a fair few docs on an old HP 3in1, but that has no document feeder. I do tend to avoid Snaps. Chrome from a Snap was really slow to load and I was limited on what files I could access from it. I installed Brave and it mostly works, but recently I get times where it slows the PC to a standstill. I had that before and am not sure what I can do about it as I can't even run something to check on what is using all the resources.
I spend a lot of time in the browser with LibreOffice for docs, Thunderbird for some email and various apps for recording. I do have some issues around recording video, but can edit with Kdenlive.
Photoshop is often quoted as a reason for not using Linux, but my image editing needs are basic.
I hope Linux works well for you.
Is your Brave install the deb version or the snap? Have tried the flatpak version? Is it any difference. I've used all 3 and ended up getting rid of the flatpak and snap versions. I just avoid all snaps now.
But the fastest one I've found is the deb version. I just added their repo to my sources list and install right from Brave. It's always up to date and dont have to wait on whoever is packaging for the snap & flatpak versions.
It's from the deb. I need to try and find out if my issue is a known problem and if there's a fix.
Thats weird. I've havent heard of brave slowing down. Do you use a lot of extensions or have an IPFS node running in it? Maybe have Tor turned on inside it? Those can really slow it down especially on launch.
Either way I wish you luck on figuring it out!
I don't have Tor or IPFS, but maybe it's another of the extensions. I'll try turning some off. It happens at random, so hard to confirm the problem.
I've disabled some extensions, some of which I didn't even need, and it has been fine since then. I'll see what happens if I enable them one at a time.