Just made the switch to Linux as a lifetime Windows user.
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welcome home!
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Welcome to the dark side, we have cookies
Having said that, just as a suggestion, take a look at KDE. It feels a bit more windows like, is extremely customizable and as such can be made to work exactly how you want it
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Right. I said that I use OBS for my Elgato HD60 X. Works great!
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It just works for me. I tried it about a year ago when I still had an Nvidia card and Wayland wasn't playing nice. I've since upgraded to an AMD and most things just work out of the box.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle gave me some trouble, but that's just typical for MachineGames's engine on Linux.
The most difficult thing about Bazzite is figuring out rpm-ostree and package layering. Luckily there isn't much I need that's not in the package library.
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Bazzite and Chimera are "SteamOS-like" distros that are more focused on providing a game console like experience.
They're immutable operating systems, and the primary UI is Steam. Definitely usable as a desktop PC but that isn't really their target niche.
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Welcome! We are happy to have you. Remember, RTFM.
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Good on you! It's a pretty good time to be transiting to linux. I transitioned a few years ago, and there were a lot of things that sucked back then, that just aren't an issue anymore.
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Welcome to stability. You are in control.
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As someone who uses RHEL for work every time I have to set something up on a windows system I groan. It really boils down to the app, some are very easy to use but it seems anything that involves OS config and permissions becomes a royal pita. Linux isn't 100% pain free (looking at you package conflicts) and SSL config sucks on all OS's but the majority of the time it presents smaller hurdles because I can dig into any part I need to.
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Im gonna switch now when support for win 10 ends too, I would switch now but I have work to finish.
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Yeah I used to use Ubuntu as a Linux desktop a few years ago. I just came back to install Fedora on my desktop and the whole process was super easy. Even for gaming, Nvidia drivers, Steam with proton, etc. all set up with zero command line interaction, troubleshooting or even looking up guides or anything. It was intuitive and works.
The compatibility for gaming on Linux today is generally really good. The whole experience is really polished.
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I started on Mint, then went to Arch Linux with Gnome, now I spend hours a day every day customizing my Arch + Hyprland setup. It's fun when things break and you
have toget to fix them yourself
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Fortunately I have no need for wine.
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From what i remember my experience was the same when i started my journey with PopOS. Ofcourse it probably did help that i was already an amd user when i was still using windows, i already hated nvidia years before switching lol. I went down the rabbithole and now i'm on Void linux. Also used arch and NixOS in the past. I love being able to setup these minimal distros to my liking, and after that it just works and gets out of the way.
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Ohh nice thanks!
