I want to make the swtich, and I have been looking into it, seems pretty simple.
But then I read the comment section in any post on linux, and they talk about kernals and other super techinal stuff.
Any day now tho, ill take the plunge
Edit: never had so many responses before, guess linux is the magic word. Even if i didnt respond to your replies, i appreciate and have updooted them.
The only difficult part as a newcommer is the installation process, partitioning and choosing between different things you pretty much know shit about.
Anything debian or debian based is a good start KDE plasma for that windows feel Learn how your particular package manager works and thats it.
Unless you have some compatibility issue, it’s pretty much straight forward.
Gaming has its things, but it is super doable. I have been a debian usdr for 14 years, but kept a winfows partition for gaming. 2 months ago switched to arch for gaming. So far, i have played +10 games with no issues, steam pretty much just works and lutris (think of it as a foss game launcher) needed some tweaks, but is pretty good.
If you have doubts, you can always try it on a virtual machine, meaning, you dont risk anything.
MattW03
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