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Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Good call! I already did this.. wasn't sure if there was a better way other than installing steam on the vm and logging into my steam account to see which ones were installable. I suppose this doesn't tell me how well they'll play though does it.. 🤔

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A NAS is exactly what I'm considering doing with it. Good call!

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I'm building a new PC because my current one is quite old. I won't retire it though, and have yet to figure out what I'll do with it (probably stick another Linux distro on it too 😆). I'm hoping to take advantage of having a brand new setup as an opportunity to be done with Windows completely.

Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Thanks for the distrochooser link. It was helpful and pointed me to Fedora 😀

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Building a brand new machine and leaving Windows for good (beehaw.org)

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I'm sick of Windows, and especially what it's become, and the way its trending looks like it will only get worse. I'll be building a brand new PC this summer and want to choose a Linux Distro instead. In preparation, I'd like to try out a virtual machine with a Linux distribution. I am solidly familiar with Ubuntu, but I think it's time to try something that may cater to my specific needs more.

I use my machine for work and gaming (mostly Steam). I am a fullstack software developer and use a second MacBook as well for my daily work needs.

I've had Manjaro, and OpenSUSE recommended to me by a friend who likes both of them but he doesn't game much and doesn't need various software development tools.

Are Manjaro or OpenSUSE good choices? I know there's a tonne of distros out there, and I'm trying to narrow things down a bit. Hopefully this community has some helpful advice.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: First of all, thank-you everyone for your help and positivity. It's been less than a day and the amount of advice and ideas is fantastic. Not too mention the noticeable lack of negative comments (a huge reason I left reddit more than a year ago), thank-you all for reaffirming my reasons.

I've got to admit, I'm a little overwhelmed by all of the advice, but in a good way. I will be scrutinizing all of this advice and laying it out into a roadmap for both my distro testing, as well as PC building. You are all making this community a helpful and spectacular place. I hope one day to be able to pay it forward! Please keep it up!

Louis Rossman is right in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I've been using a MacBook for my work for years now (not voluntarily). I've always had a Windows desktop as my main machine. Your experience is completely different from mine. I've found that it's easy to use the MacBook, so long as I want to do things the way Apple dictates. With Windows, I can discover and tweak my own processes to work the way I want to. With Apple I feel entirely boxed in.

All that being said, I think the whole discussion can get ridiculous. It shouldn't bother anyone one way or the other which product someone prefers, and most of the time, it sounds like a Pepsi vs Coke argument to me.