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
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