With the growing number of users jumping from Windows to Linux, I decided to fully take the plunge and dive deep into the Open Source ocean. A few months and several headaches later, it has proved to be the best computer-related decision I've made in over a decade (and perhaps in my entire life).

There. That’s out of the way. I recently installed Linux on my main desktop computer and work laptop, overwriting the Windows partition completely. Essentially, I deleted the primary operating system from the two computers I use the most, day in and day out, instead trusting all of my personal and work computing needs to the Open Source community. This has been a growing trend, and I hopped on the bandwagon, but for good reasons. Some of those reasons might pertain to you and convince you to finally make the jump as well. Here’s my experience.

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  • lautan@lemmy.ca
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    6 days ago

    It’s based on Ubuntu and just about everything will run on it. Including Steam games. Also it’s very stable, some other distros might update and break something. If you just want something that works, I would suggest Mint.

    • Blaiz0r@lemmy.ml
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      5 days ago

      I think it’s a bit outdated now though, they are behind on Wayland support and their DE is quite poor.

      I agree that it’s very stable however and easy to run software.

      These days I would recommend Fedora or Ubuntu, maybe Debian.