I spent all of yesterday building a PC (NOT easy, Jesus Christ) and now it needs an OS. Fuck windows, or course, so I want a Linux OS. I’ll be mainly using my PC for gaming and editing videos, and I’d much prefer something that works similarly to Windows just for comfort purposes since I’m already familiar. Also I’ve heard Linux is incompatible with some games?
So, nerds, what do you recommend?
What software, what games, do you need to run? Protondb will tell you.
What hardware do you have? People complain about the nvidia drivers but it’s honestly fine.
It’s not gonna run like windows. You can make it similar (and I kinda do, lxqt, taskbar on the left hand side) but the way you figure stuff out is gonna be different because the way options and capabilities are surfaced to you is different.
That’s why “beginner friendly” distros are so awful. Ultimately the new user has to learn how they’re supposed to do stuff with the system and just like when going between a mac and pc there’s no need for some layer to facilitate that learning once the user understands that they gotta learn a new way of thinking there’s no need for some simplicity layer. Linux is already simple.
Anyway just install Debian and figure it out. You’ll be fine.