FYI: You are already on Lemmy, the most Linux friendly place on the Internet. If you ever run into trouble, just ask around. People here will love to help you.
One last thing. Since you are completely new, are coming from a Windows background, and do more than just game, I’d suggest starting with Linux Mint (Cinnamon). You do not have to stick with that distribution forever, but is is probably the most painless introduction since it is Debian/Ubuntu based and most of the help/articles you’ll find on the Internet is focused on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint. Debian based distributions are more of a “set it and forget it” experience.
Other major core distributions that are different from Debian/Ubuntu include Red Hat (Fedora), Arch, and OpenSuSe. Red Hat (Fedora) is a good choice for corporate users since Red Hat is the defacto Linux distribution for the corporate world. Arch is great if you REALLY want to learn Linux and truly get into tinkering with its guts. OpenSuSe is the European option and what some European governments are ditching Windows for.
That’s very helpful. Thank you, again. I think I’m going to set up a partition and play with it so I can sort of have one foot in and one foot out to not disrupt my workflow too much while I figure things out. Wish me luck.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
FYI: You are already on Lemmy, the most Linux friendly place on the Internet. If you ever run into trouble, just ask around. People here will love to help you.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Will do. Thanks again!
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
One last thing. Since you are completely new, are coming from a Windows background, and do more than just game, I’d suggest starting with Linux Mint (Cinnamon). You do not have to stick with that distribution forever, but is is probably the most painless introduction since it is Debian/Ubuntu based and most of the help/articles you’ll find on the Internet is focused on Debian/Ubuntu/Mint. Debian based distributions are more of a “set it and forget it” experience.
Other major core distributions that are different from Debian/Ubuntu include Red Hat (Fedora), Arch, and OpenSuSe. Red Hat (Fedora) is a good choice for corporate users since Red Hat is the defacto Linux distribution for the corporate world. Arch is great if you REALLY want to learn Linux and truly get into tinkering with its guts. OpenSuSe is the European option and what some European governments are ditching Windows for.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That’s very helpful. Thank you, again. I think I’m going to set up a partition and play with it so I can sort of have one foot in and one foot out to not disrupt my workflow too much while I figure things out. Wish me luck.