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SSD crapped itself finally, so good excuse as any to do the switch.

  1. Linux Mint? Is that recommended? Is this the one "you wish you started with"?

  2. I have some files on my HDD, I would rather not lose any of them, can they still run on Linux?

  3. Gaming. Any suggestions on running Steam and such?

I don't want "if this doesn't work out, I can stick with Windows." Fuck, I'm sick of Windows, when/where do you learn to love Linux? Thanks for your help.

Edit: Holy shit you guys respond fast. Thank you, you all deserve a beer. I won't know everything at the start, I was only hoping for some training wheels (tutorial vids) on how to do the basics.

I lied a bit, I still have an old gaming laptop (where I'm posting now). It runs Minecraft on medium (and I still love her). I'm already transferring files to it just in case.

SSD crapped itself finally, so good excuse as any to do the switch. 1. Linux Mint? Is that recommended? Is this the one "you wish you started with"? 2. I have some files on my HDD, I would rather not lose any of them, can they still run on Linux? 3. Gaming. Any suggestions on running Steam and such? I don't want "if this doesn't work out, I can stick with Windows." Fuck, I'm sick of Windows, when/where do you learn to love Linux? Thanks for your help. Edit: Holy shit you guys respond fast. Thank you, you all deserve a beer. I won't know everything at the start, I was only hoping for some training wheels (tutorial vids) on how to do the basics. I lied a bit, I still have an old gaming laptop (where I'm posting now). It runs Minecraft on medium (and I still love her). I'm already transferring files to it just in case.

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[–] [deleted] • 3 pts

My experience of switching to Linux Mint:

Steam allows nearly all of my games to run even if they aren't officially supported. A few games break, though.

Wine runs the other Windows-only programs I need.

I don't need as many Windows-only programs as I thought I would.

I don't think using and configuring Linux is harder than Windows, but it felt that way early on because it's different and I was used to Windows.

There are annoyances about it; Linux isn't what a good operating system should be like, it's just less bad than Windows has become.