Oh that’s so awesome, I had no idea about this! I jotted this down and will definitely try it out tomorrow. Things I take for granted and know so well in Photoshop, I can’t even figure out for the life of me how to do in GIMP. It’s practice what I need, and this package sounds great to help me ease into it again. Thank you!

Can verify that photogimp is brilliant. As well as the interface it also creates photoshop like keyboard shortcuts too. There are one or two things not quite right but on the whole its a life saver.

Linux Mint has been set and go for me personally. You will thank us later.

It depends on what kind of software you usually use. You should look up the programs you use regularly/can't live without to see if they have Linux versions or if they have decent replacements. If everything there checks out, find an LTS distro. Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives (PopOS or Mint) or fedora and derivatives (I don't know any fedora derivatives) would be good.

I started using PopOS last year for a gaming machine and all the tinkering I did, I did because I'm a nerd and I wanted to. If I wanted an easy experience without even looking at a command line I think I could've.

One more thing. Most (maybe all?) Linux distros can be booted and viewed in a live environment from a USB without having to erase your whole drive (just make sure you don't go through the setup and actually erase your drive (unless you want to))

A direct hop is usually not the best way to move into the Linux world. The best way I've heard (and wished I did myself) is slowly start migrating to programs that will be available and you'll be using, while still on Windows. Get used to how new things work and if an emergency comes up, you can fall back to your tried and true tools. Then, just keep migrating apps until most of what you use is open source stuff, or stuff widely available. (Spotify, Discord, Zoom, etc.) Once you have your workflow worked out, you've found substitutes for things you can't get on Linux, then is a good time to take the plunge.

Going cold turkey is going to be really rough. I had Fedora on a side piece laptop for years before my first try on my workstation and it was a disaster. Less than a week later I had to go back to Windows. But, now I'm familiar with the tools I use and I've been a full convert for a few months now and it's been great.

You can do it! Just...take it slow.

I mean, it's not like I haven't spent hours debugging windows. Why is the sound crackling? WHY?

Never solved it and Linux just worked

You may be my savior because I plan on playing some comp this weekend and don't want crashes.

Do you just set the game compatibility to force Steam compatibility and then Proton Experimental? Did you get rid of any of the launch options that I saw all over the Steam forums and Proton DB (e.g., steamdeck=1 ) ?

That's what I like the most about it is that it's mostly familiar. I think it's an excellent OS to bridge users leaving Windows.

Years ago I experimented by dual booting pop_OS! and also Ubuntu. But they always ran so poorly for me, despite having great hardware at the time (i7-7700k and GTX 1080). It was just super frustrating so I abandoned it.

Last year as part of my preparation and research to get off Windows, I rolled VMs of Zorin OS and Linux Mint. Zorin was good overall, but Linux Mint just felt better to me. There's so much information available online for Mint, and over time as I get comfortable with the Linux ecosystem, I probably won't be using internet search terms like "install error XYZ someprogramhere on Linux Mint". 😀

What about my GeForce 6600 GT?

Definitely will be taking advantage of those two softwares. I tried dabbling with Syncthing when I got my Steam Deck, because I wanted the save files for my... er, Linux ISOs, to sync with my Windows PC. I couldn't get it to reliably work (user error probably). So this time I'll try again and hopefully it will be much better!

And with these specs, this server will be so powerful that it will actually serve other servers. Even servers that don't exist yet. It'll be so fast that persons will be like "whoa, this is too fast, please slow it down!"

Haven't tried it, but I'm downloading it now so I can give it a go next time!