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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[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

You can turn numlock on by default!? Brb looking for the setting. That's so annoying.

[-] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 3 points 16 hours ago

At the keyboard section, "turn on numlock on startup" (something like this, I use in the portuguese language)

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

Amazing! I see it. Thank you very much! I will appreciate your help every time I boot up.

[-] potatoguy@potato-guy.space 2 points 15 hours ago

Hahaha.

If you don't know about this, it's interesting too, if you go to the "authentication screen (SDDM)", you can set your configs to your login screen too, like themes, icon themes, this keyboard config.

[-] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Nice, thank you.

this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025

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