Looking to make the switch - Advice? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by FarrellPerks@feddit.uk to c/linux@programming.dev

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Afternoon all.

I'm looking to make the switch away from Windows, and I wondered if people had any advice, distro suggestions and so on.

My main use cases for my PC are Gaming, Writing and Image editing. Things I'd love to have working are all my games, Epic, Steam, GoG and Game pass. I already use OpenOffice so I'm probably fine with that. And I currently use Photoshop, so a good alternative for that would be good. Finally Spotify, Discord and VPNs etc

Any and all help and suggestions would be welcomed, thanks in advance.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Game Pass doesn't work on Linux. It could very easily, but M$ doesn't want it to.

Everything else should be good to go.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 day ago

Since a few weeks ago some Gamepass games are supposed to work via the battle.net launcher. Don't know what the current status there is.

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