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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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It may be a bit harder start.

If gaming and such is the main purpose of your machine.

I am going to recommend SalientOS (sourceforge.net). Its Arch based, so not as newb friendly. but not really any harder to manage either. Lots of good help out there for it, just like any other distro.

The bonus. It plays AAA games right out of the box. Drivers, steam, gaming addons loaded already.

Try to load up Salient, and just play steam. You'll enjoy it just working for you. In a 450 game steam library I have found few that don't work at all.

A great resource you will come to love is ProtonDB (protondb.com). It tells you how others made the game work on Linux and what type and hardware they used.

Edit to add. Also dont forget Lutris (lutris.net)! Amazing tool for gaming on Linux. (also pre-installed on SalientOS)