Don't switch to Linux immediately

[u/ifearone]

Ladies, gentlemen and everyone in between. Everyday I see people ask about switching to Linux citing various reasons. This post aims to solve all of those questions simply.

1. Don't switch immediately. Do your own research on what distro to choose. There are tons of them and what works for one person won't necessarily work for another person.

2. After you've narrowed down your choices load up VMware or something similar and test all the distros to your hearts desire. Get a feel for a whole bunch of them. I mean it.

3. If you're still adamant about switching at this point congratulations. Get a secondary drive and dual boot. You'll see that some games and software simply dont work on Linux. If you're a gamer I'd recommend dual booting 100%.

4. If you really hate windows that much and you dont mind not playing certain games or using certain software then backup all your files and give windows the boot.

5. Welcome to linux forever.

[u/ItzRaphZ]

1. You realize that you can play 99% of the games, and you'll live a better life not playing the 1% that you can't.

[u/ifearone → u/ItzRaphZ]

Can't play battlefield 6, can't play any riot game, will aion 2 run well when it's out? Who knows

[u/minneyar → u/ifearone]

you'll live a better life not playing the 1% that you can't

[u/ZunoJ → u/[deleted]]

Then maybe try to find help? This sounds terrible

[u/ZunoJ → u/[deleted]]

Bro, you got some serious problems. Worst of which is that have the image of an Andrew Tate version of yourself.
I work as a software developer since 15 years and started coding about 10 years earlier, so all in all about 25 yoe. I get the drive to become as good and knowledgeable as possible and as fast as possible. This shit is fun and there is a lot of competition. But what you describe is a fast track to burn out for the topic. You have a goal and what you do is actively sabotaging it. There is just too much to learn to fast track it

[u/riverty21 → u/[deleted]]

Wow people use Linux.

[u/ifearone → u/[deleted]]

I was literally only playing 2 games...battlefield 6 which does not work and final fantasy 14 which works. Half my games got cut lol. BF6 and mmos are like my drugs lol

[u/ifearone → u/[deleted]]

Bro I feel this deeply. What language are you learning?

[u/ifearone → u/[deleted]]

Any great free resources for learning python that you wanna share with me?