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Linux Oct 08, 2026

thinking about switching to linux full time, worth it?

mostly browse, use office docs, do a bit of photo editing and play some steam games. honestly fed up with windows updates restarting things and all the stuff pushed at me. would i regret moving over full time, what's the catch with games and office files, and which distro is sensible for a beginner?
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anita_57 Nov 05, 2026
charles_rich
Use the live USB to test your hardware too, not just the apps. Wifi, sleep and resume, the touchpad, the screen brightness keys, an external monitor. Those are the things that make people go back to Windows, and you find most of them out in ten minutes. If you've got an Nvidia card, pick a distro that makes the proprietary driver easy to install. Mint does. It saves a lot of fiddling.
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dan_gadget Oct 13, 2026
charles_rich
Depends almost entirely on which apps you can't live without. Browsing, coding, office stuff, media: Linux is great at all of it and the machine usually feels quicker. Where it hurts is Adobe software, some printers and scanners, and games with kernel-level anti-cheat, which mostly just refuse to run. Steam's Proton handles a surprising amount of the rest. Don't wipe Windows on day one. Boot a live USB first, then dual boot for a month and see how often you go back. Mint or Fedora are the easy starting points. What do you use the PC for mostly?
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