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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[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I like the long-term overlapping security release that server-first focus gives me. I rely on it even. My daily driver is built from Ubuntu server headless LTS, X11, Awesomewm. My automation really only needs updates every 5 years, and I get the option to update it every 2. The same script I wrote to remove the esm motd message 10 years ago still works. I don't know what else people want from canonical.

[-] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

I agree that Ubuntu is a solid distro and would recommend it before Mint, it's just not at the top of the list anymore. But if you're happy with what you have, that's all that matters.

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