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should i switch to linux?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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Fair enough, I'm still trying to figure out most of them myself. It's just the first first distro I used that my son set up for me. It's a gaming oriented Fedora with KDE and comes preloaded with stuff for playing games. It did seem like it was working pretty well for a lot of stuff, but I went against my son's advice and started trying to learn the terminal and borked some stuff, so he switched me to vanilla Fedora and now I'm missing stuff I need to run some of the games. I don't know if anybody else has used it much it that has had any experience. Like I said I'm only on my second distro myself.