Hello. I’ve been a window user from win95. I’d like to learn more about Linux but don’t know where to start. I had a brief intro when I was in highschool and recently I’ve been seeing more and more talk here on Lemmy. Mostly memes.
With how bad Google is finding good information unless I add -reddit to my search. Which I won’t do. Trying to stay away from that.
What can I expect to find as a casual observer? Why does Linux do that’s “better” than Windows? That’s not meant to inflame anyone. More so what do you personally like better.
It’s just so much faster. I can do everything I can in windows(except plug n play gaming) but for free and it’s all faster, and every situation you’ll encounter as a noob has been meticulously detailed in some forum by an expert for another noob who ran into your problem years ago.
And at this point, you can choose any popular flavor of Ubuntu, install it in twenty minutes or less, and the gui is so intuitive you don’t have to even use the terminal if you don’t want to(although it does make you feel like a cool hacker). Just enjoy the secure, free, incredibly fast OS.
Go on YouTube, search for how to install whichever Ubuntu flavor looks cool to you and you’ll be set.
Since I only use Steam, out of 350+ games in my account are mostly plug-and-play. Don’t play competitive games with anti-cheat so. Otherwise. More than half is verified, and they all install - game.
But yea. My laptop and desktop are so much faster
Oh, I didn’t even think about like aggregate launchers, that’s a good point. I guess if you use a launcher then everything is still plug and play. Nice.