Making the move to Linux Mint

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Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: Australia Posts: 5181	Posted: 01:08am 20 Apr 2026       OK, giving it another go. ChatGPT tells me Wine ver 11 is a big improvement over previous version, especially for heavy programs like Dreamweaver. I fired up my copy of Fedora, but it wouldn't boot now, complained about hardware changes, ( different SATA port ). Decided to do a clean install. All good, dual monitor support, then it did a update, and broke dual screen support   seams like there's a bit of forum noise about this, just another update breaking something. Then my server guy suggested I try CachyOS. He's been using it for a few months and really likes it. Its based in Arch, a rolling update model. Cachy is designed to be user friendly, and fast. Installed it. Installed Signal, easy. Installed Wine 11, then Paint Shop Pro, and Dreamweaver. easy, and Dreamweaver is fast, not clitchy like it was under the previous Wine on Fedora. Installed Steam, then Quake, and this time it captures the mouse correctly so I can play in a window ( and not get motion sickness ). I installed Microsoft Edge, nice. A serial terminal, then filezilla. All working perfectly. Next is the biggie, Thunderbird and its years of emails. Let you know how it goes, but so far its a big step in the right direction. Glenn