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Looking to make the switch - Advice?
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For best out of the box experience you may want to try Bazzite (https://bazzite.gg/), it will have pretty much everything included for gaming, except Microsoft Store as noted above. This system is harder to break by doing something stupid and has good documentation on their website.
Alternatively you may try a more traditional "batteries included" distribution like Ultramarine Linux or Linux Mint.
Bazzite or PopOS for Notebooks.
Everything should work out of the box, except maybe printers. But those should work with some help
If the printer isn't too old it should work fairly easily. I did get a 20 year old printer to work with Bazzite but it was a very fragile setup (so I just bought a new printer).
I loved the vanilla Bazzite experience. A+. That being said, if you want to do pretty much any tinkering, you're gonna have to roll up your sleeves. The atomic experience seems destined to be static. ^_^
Went back to Linux Mint so I could experiment as I liked.
You can still tinker a fair amount, but it's all very containerized. It's a trade-off of stability for inflexiblity. I think most Windows users would prefer the first one however.