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

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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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[-] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 hours ago

ALWAYS backup your data

If you want to have a distro tailored for gaming, Bazzite is a popular choice. I would recommend that if you want better driver compatibility. Another good all-round pption is Fedora. I personally use Workstation as I prefer GNOME more, but if you don’t like GNOME, the KDE version is also there.

One thing is that I’m pretty sure OpenOffice isn’t maintained anymore, so you might want to switch to LibreOffice, a fork of OpenOffice. I also like OnlyOffice as it has better compatibility with MS office files and has all three apps bundled into one. LibreOffice is still good though, and is community-maintained as well. A nice alternative for Photoshop would be GIMP. If you use Illustrator, I personally use Inkscape and it’s been great.

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