Be as honest as you want (without being hostile of course lol) libre fans here aren't mindless fanbois or something lmao we do realize there are obstacles that some might face and we just wanna help with that if possible... we also realize that a lot of people just don't have enough info to have an informed opinion you know
Linux has come a very long way in just the past 2 years and the train is only getting faster, when was the last time you tried it and what distro/DE did you use? What do you use your pc for? Also what problems did you have?
This time you can try to better decide on a distro/DE and instead of going cold turkey you can first try it out via Live USB and if you're still not sure you can dualboot until you figure it all out.
Btw we now have a linux support room on Matrix (discord alternative) for anyone who might be interested
I generally use my PC for the internet and videogames, and my problems were usually stuff like I have literally never been able to make a single program work on Wine, or discovering that something I wanted to install had a prerequisite that had a prerequisite that no longer existed, or one time - this was a long time ago on kubuntu I actually managed to mess up the computer's ability to play sound by installing an mp3 codec so badly that I had to reinstall the OS.
In general it feels like linux trusts me a bit too much to know what I'm doing when my method of learning to do things is just trying things to see what happens.
So we can safely say that Ubuntu isn't for you :) The difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu is about the DE and the preinstalled apps but otherwise they're the same.
I actually never had to bother with any codecs or even adding repositories to the package manager because I'm running Manjaro (not beginner friendly because it's a cutting edge distro)
For you I recommend Fedora , with Fedora you can easily add RPM Fusion which should provide you with all the software you want
For games outside of Steam you should use Lutris - what Windows programs did you wanna use on Linux? There are a lot of cross platform apps you should check out and there are also a lot of ways to run Windows programs on Linux
I gotta be honest, I have installed Linux at least six times in the past 10 years, and every time I have come crawling shamefacedly to windows again.
it does not help that Bill Gates is smirking in my room saying I told you you'd be back, bitch
Be as honest as you want (without being hostile of course lol) libre fans here aren't mindless fanbois or something lmao we do realize there are obstacles that some might face and we just wanna help with that if possible... we also realize that a lot of people just don't have enough info to have an informed opinion you know
Linux has come a very long way in just the past 2 years and the train is only getting faster, when was the last time you tried it and what distro/DE did you use? What do you use your pc for? Also what problems did you have?
This time you can try to better decide on a distro/DE and instead of going cold turkey you can first try it out via Live USB and if you're still not sure you can dualboot until you figure it all out.
Btw we now have a linux support room on Matrix (discord alternative) for anyone who might be interested
Initially I used kubuntu, more recently lubuntu.
I generally use my PC for the internet and videogames, and my problems were usually stuff like I have literally never been able to make a single program work on Wine, or discovering that something I wanted to install had a prerequisite that had a prerequisite that no longer existed, or one time - this was a long time ago on kubuntu I actually managed to mess up the computer's ability to play sound by installing an mp3 codec so badly that I had to reinstall the OS.
In general it feels like linux trusts me a bit too much to know what I'm doing when my method of learning to do things is just trying things to see what happens.
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So we can safely say that Ubuntu isn't for you :) The difference between Ubuntu and Kubuntu is about the DE and the preinstalled apps but otherwise they're the same.
I actually never had to bother with any codecs or even adding repositories to the package manager because I'm running Manjaro (not beginner friendly because it's a cutting edge distro)
For you I recommend Fedora , with Fedora you can easily add RPM Fusion which should provide you with all the software you want
For games outside of Steam you should use Lutris - what Windows programs did you wanna use on Linux? There are a lot of cross platform apps you should check out and there are also a lot of ways to run Windows programs on Linux