For me it’s mostly down to Microsoft being such a douche about their Windows 11 upgrade. My windows 10 PC can apparently not do thd upgrade due to “incompatible hardware” but at the same time I can still run pretty much everything I like to play / do just fine. It’s really making me consider switching to Linux, I might give it a shot on an old laptop soon and if that goes smoothly then I’ll switch on my other PC as well. No need for Windows anymore if they’re pushy and there’s a good alternative available.
+1 for Linux Mint, switched from windows 10 recently.
Terminal is annoying but not needed as much as I feared, and usually it’s copy + paste anyway (ctrl + shift + v to paste in terminal). A lot of stuff is easier on Linux, like updating, and (sometimes) installing things. Also, it’s a feeling that your computer will stay the same or get better, not get worse.
Also:
In Steam, you use Proton when your install button is grey, by tapping the gear icon on the right, selecting Properties, Compatibility, checking the box that says “force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool”, and choosing the first thing from the drop-down menu. So far everything I’ve done this with has worked immediately after.
In Steam, you use Proton when your install button is grey, by tapping the gear icon on the right, selecting Properties, Compatibility, checking the box that says “force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool”, and choosing the first thing from the drop-down menu.
I think Proton is enabled by default in recent Steam client release.
If you do try Linux, I highly highly recommend Linux Mint, since it’s the most newbie friendly.
Or else, https://distrochooser.de/ might be a useful help to make a suitable choice (which probably comes down to Linux Mint or Zorin anyway)
I’d rather recommend an immutable distro like bazzite. Mint was ok, but pretty messed up if something didn’t work. If you mess up your immutable distro, all you need to do is reboot.
Immutable distros will likely become the standard in the future, but at the moment I think they’re a poor choice for newbies since there’s very little documentation around them, very few people who can help if something goes wrong, and often can introduce their own problems due to flatpak permissions that require their own specialized knowledge that a newbie won’t have.
When I tried bazzite, I encountered an issue that someone else had reported on the forums months ago, which had never received a response due to how stretched thin the UBlue team are.
Mint on the other hand works fine 99% of the time, and has heaps of help resources available for it. It also strongly suggests setting up a snapshot of your system that you can rollback to if anything ever messes up, which pretty much puts it on par with bazzite in that department.
