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Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Two big things to do before you decide that.

  1. Do you run nvidia graphics? cause they are a PITA and influence your distro choice (you’ll want a distro that has nvidia drivers baked in.)

  2. If you game, go to www.protondb.com and check out a handful of the games you play. 99% of games work on linux with steams Proton (lets windows games run on steam), the only ones that dont are ones with invasive anti-cheat, so use protondb to see if any of your important games have issues.

  3. I made the swap years ago, it was daunting…and there were a couple issues, but overall, far more easy than I ever expected it to be. (for me, cause I built the PC with the switch to linux in mind, so all my hardware is AMD).

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  • Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the advice, my PC is already full AMD so I guess that makes it a bit easier? :D lucky

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It does. AMD support is baked into the kernal.

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• Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah I’ve been thinking that too. Not sure I have time to learn it though so I keep sticking with windows. But I really have to make the effort to switch.

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  • oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d suggest a cheap used or spare laptop/desktop with a beginner friendly distro like Linux Mint Cinnamon to learn on. Just use it for casual stuff – you’ll pick up what you need to learn as you go.

    That way if something breaks or you don’t know how to do something while you’re learning you’re not “stuck”.

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  • Tryptaminev@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just switched to Manjaro with KDE Plasma. The most complicated thing to set up was forcing steam to run games with the nvidia drivers, which took 5 minutes of adding a start parameter to my games.

    From a consumer perspective i even find many things easier than in Windows. It works out of the box. The package manager provides every tool you need, and if you want to change a setting, it is as easy as typing the name of the setting into the start menu.

    Seriously, if you do not want to dive deep, you can do everything without more complication than under windows, often even easier.

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  • Sniatch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I will just dual boot at the beginning and play around with Linux for a bit.

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• KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Try Mint, it’s nice :)

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• maeries@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Come to the dark side. We have cookies no ads

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  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Linux is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be… unnatural.

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• WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  reccomend fedora

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nobara.

    Its Fedora, but for gaming.

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    • WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s what I am running! Just we don’t know what the other comentors main intentions are and if they’re gaming or not

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• therealspelly@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  DO IT

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