I’d suggest just setting aside some time on a weekend to just nuke windows and dive in. Something like cachy os is great for gaming, or bazzite if you’d like the system files indeleble like steam os.
I ended up wiping my last windows install a few months back and I don’t miss it at all.
Stolas@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I have an older laptop that I was actually thinking about experimenting with first, just to give myself some confidence in figuring everything out.
I’ve been stalling on that though.
Krompus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Make a live USB and just fiddle around with it. Note that a proper install on NVME will be much snappier. Don’t nuke Windows until you understand the basics of Linux and have decided you want to daily drive it. Back up your data of course. Dual boot is often more trouble that it’s worth, Windows loves to fuck up your bootloader and partitions, I got fed up unfucking it and began unplugging my Linux drives while updating Windows, and eventually just wiped it.
If you’re serious about it, try to source hardware that is well supported rather than just slap it on a random machine and hope for the best.
Nosavingthrow@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I swapped to full-time Linux last October. It’s literally no difference for me since I use zero highly specialized software except maybe my mouse and headset software.