Look long story short, what i expected to be a short install ended up being a 5 hour manhunt for an issue that resulted in needing a closed source instead of open source nvidia driver. Shes all switched to linux, and if her trial goes well and i don't end up tearing my hair out doing tech support. I may switch over as well, probably a different distro though.
One thing i will say though, even though the state of gaming has drastically improved since my first foray into linux, the "fine details" of gaming have not. Fuck me the first time i looked into the modding scene on linux and how much busywork that took, that just killed a little bit of my soul. Even trying to get her game open, we first had a xbox game controller bluetooth not connecting issue, my bandaid was to do a wired connection, and sitting here just now i hear a laugh and look back and see this in her game. What i can only imagine is some sort of video player error, but the game works. Its rough, but it works.
It'll be interesting to see how this goes, thats for sure
Yeah, having your partner switch first is hella weird. I switched first, then my partner switched soon after. Same distro as well, which means that usually we can communicate with how updates went (I of course update first) and I'm more prepared to help her with issues.
The biggest issue she's had was with her drawing tablet... That was solved by using the CORRECT PEN for the tablet she was trying to use lol, instead of a pen for a different tablet.