There’s a ton of linux rant channels with a following, so there is a market for them

I’ve been on pop!_os consistently for… 3 and a bit years now? some distro hopping before then

What you should expect to change… well other than the obvious like the UI and such… chances are you’ll need a decent bit of different software than on windows, im assuming you looked into alternatives for the software you use, or if it simply just runs, so im not gonna list a bunch of stuff here :3.

Tech support online is mostly gonna be through terminal commands, which actually makes it way less painless imo since you can just copy-paste stuff instead of navigating though a bunch of interfaces.

Installing apps is different since you’ll often find multiple packages for the same thing, and have to decide between .deb or flatpak etc.

All of that seems like fairly obvious stuff you’d find along the way to the process of looking into switching to linux tbh, but I can’t think of much that’d be a major shock otherwise lol

In terms of gaming, I’ve had no major issues :3… some minor ones that were easy enough to troubleshoot did occur tho. Generally just checking out protonDB to see what people are saying in terms of compatibility is good, but basically 90% of what doesn’t run now are games with kernel level anti-cheats

Hah, I did that too in my first weeks with linux x3… I think I wanted to hit alt + f4, but for some reason I also hit ctrl with it… had a mild heart attack when my screen just went to CLI, but I figured it out :3

I just chose the automatic partition thingy ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

https://github.com/cknadler/vim-anywhere

The closest thing I could find that isn’t MacOS was this

Guessing it’s officially not supported, and it just works with whatever open source drivers come with the kernel. I know the packaging only lists windows devices as supported, but so far it’s been fine for me :3

Most TP-link ones work afaik. I have the TP-link UB400 for bluetooth on my PC

Libreoffice present or whatever it’s called (powerpoint equivelent) is absolutely garbage imo, it’s missing a lot of functions to make stuff that doesn’t look straight out of 1990s

The rest of them I found fine… though im definitely not a power user by any means, so mileage may vary

Toughbook cf-31

I have a 3070 and I’ve experienced 0 issues so far tbf

The graphic card debate used to be a way bigger thing in the past from what I hear

Im personally on pop!_os, though im not sure how much I’d recommend it at the moment as they’re building up to launching their new DE, which probably isn’t gonna be the most stable

Mint is a good “default” newbie distro :3 zorinOS is another one I see mentioned a lot these days though I’ve not personally tried it