I'd say: do recommend those windows like distro. Most people don't really care about their OS. In their eyes the best OS US one they don't have to think about/spend energy on. Hence the appeal of OS X for example. I think probably 80% of all users haven't even fully understood what Windows is nor do they care in the slightest. They want to be able to browse the web, maybe game some, and maybe watch streams. They'd gladly attach their phone to a screen if it was easier than working on a different device. Whoever is really interested in learning things about their OS or distro of choice will do so in their own time and switch to something different if the need arises and not to become part of some cult like defenders of their holy distro (which it often feels like as soon as someone asks for recommendations). I have only recently switched to Linux Mint and am totally happy with it. I don't feel like I absolutely have to try Arch for example. I got everything I need for now up and running and I have neither the time nor the need to learn anything else at the moment. Elitist posts like OPs are probably more effective in keeping people from trying Linux (that and the mass of names flying around for different parts, as well as the lack of beginner friendly documentation - although that has changed a lot since the last time I tested Linux a few years back)

A very dumb question probably, but I'm new to using Linux so I lack a lot of understanding: I'm on Bazzite atm. Would there be a simple way to switch to blend OS without wiping everything? Like a rebase? Probably not but I figured it's worth a shot to ask xD

I wonder how long it'll take Microsoft to completely ruin their reputation with companies again after they took so long to recover it.

Dorfromantik it's a sort of puzzle game that's deeply relaxing

knock knock

It's what Microsoft opted to call their office suite now. So Office365 is now officially Microsoft 365 in an effort to acknowledge that your office work has now completely left their focus and they are only concentrating on themselves

Afaik steam is uses kde plasma, you should be able to customize it and probably use themes to get the Mac OS Look. Maybe start from there. Probably plenty of YouTube guides for that.

I tried to get nobara to run a few times but sth was always broken. I'm now on Bazzite after testing Linux Mint a few months. Bazzite seems to be the more polished fedora based gaming distro.

I think it was a problem with authorization. I was already logged in, butt wasn't verified, of that makes sense. Basically logging out and back in did the trick at some point (and a lot of help from the instance owner)

Will it run on a 8t? Which instructions did you follow? I've one lying around and i'd love to test mobile Linux

Any links to beginner friendly tutorials and guides will also be highly appreciated!

Would that be a way - have lots of your self created stuff on any device and then sue the corpos or sth for gaining illegal access to copyrighted materials in case they search it?

Ah well, not the first time I changed distro xD I'll make some space on my drive and test it

I will jump into that rabbit hole, thanks!

Try fmstrat/winapps it's installation process is well documented and it works relatively well. In case you don't need too much functionality (e.g. complex formatting/custom template/a ton of custom add-ons) the online version might work for you. There's also a web app for teams you can find on flathub iirc. Betterbird also gives you a ton of options and with owl addin it handles exchange pretty well and also gives you access to the teams web app directly inside betterbird

I tried commenting a bunch of times but always got "log in first" Luckily I don't have that problem on mastodon, where I have a ton of interactions and people are way way friendlier than on any social media platform I've used before

Also the steam deck helped massively with game compatibility. The only game I had to tinker with (and didn't get to work) so far is a closed alpha. I still run a dual boot setup, but only use the Windows partition for work (office suite needed). Fmstrat/Winapps (found on GitHub) is a good enough way to use Office for smaller tasks so I don't always have to boot up the Windows partition.

Reaper also lets you keep evaluating it if you're unsure that you want to buy it.

I think I get slightly better performance on Bazzite than on mint. Mint e.g. still has the 535 Nvidia drivers as recommended (we're at 550 now). On Bazzite you'll probably have to enable x11 until the new update with explicit sync drops mid May. (At least I had a ton of flickering on Wayland with my rtx 3060)

Thanks that sounds promising

That sounds awful. Have you tried disabling energy saving options (like automatic screenlock/sleep)?

Thanks for the extensive answer and the video. I'll put it to good use since I wanted to do a clean reinstall anyways.

Awesome thank you for taking the time too be so detailed! Ok I think I'm starting to see what I need to do.

I made the switch a few days ago. At the moment I'm running a dual boot setup as unfortunately I can't completely drop Windows for work sessions. I settled on Linux Mint as I couldn't get Nobara (a fedora fork or sth) to run stable.

I have no experience with Linux (except for owning a steam deck and using live CDs some years ago), so I was looking for sth simple and able to run games.

I've been doing more tweaking than I thought but that's mainly due to my hardware, e.g. getting the stream deck and the rodecaster to run. I've learned a bunch of stuff while tinkering with all of this and I can recommend Linux Mint due to its ease of use and very large community where someone probably had your exact problem before and even documented it in some way.

Can't say much about other distros but I don't think I'll switch to another any time soon.

That's the tool yes. I've followed a guide that should have also included optimization. One of the problems I encountered: it doesn't recognize the monitors properly which makes it a pain e.g. opening an email in a new window. Also lots of flickering and "wrong"colors (Outlook icon is turquoise for example). Nonetheless I would need a "full" Windows environment for the training sessions anyways (don't want to confuse the attendees more than necessary by showing them an unfamiliar OS)

I'll definitely look it up. Thanks for the help!

I had a lot of crashes as soon as I installed it. Must have been some driver/hardware issues probably. I'm not knowledgeable enough (and frankly had no energy to troubleshoot) I just installed mint which ran without (much) trouble. I was interested in a more up to date system and KDE plasma as well as pipewire already integrated and looked at bazzite (after another unsuccessful try at nobara) - have been t running it for a few weeks now and I'm perfectly happy with it. CS 2 also runs without problems - but I mainly cast matches instead of playing myself.

And if I remember correctly that only was the name of one company's model of mobile phones but it stuck like e.g. Tempo for tissues in general.

Yeah I don't as in the bazzite installer it's a real pain to set it up manually (also not allowing you to spread the partitions over multiple drives during the initial setup)

Are you using Jack? You could try pipewire as an alternative, it helped me greatly in getting my rodecaster duo set up