I use Linux wherever I can and after spending years trying different distros I've always come back to Mint. Although I enjoy tinkering with new user interfaces, spending time fixing problems instead of actually using the OS eventually got old. Once set up Mint works for years without a hiccup.

Microsoft's telemetry, increasing invasiveness pushing ads, and general dumbing down of their OS so it's usable for people who don't know what to do when they reach the edge of the mouse pad has gotten ridiculous.

Microsoft's intent to move Windows to the cloud should make more people question using it. Despite having to pay for Windows it seems Microsoft has decided that we're what's actually for sale, not the operating system.

Current user. It's been my primary OS since around 2001.

People have a lot of opinions. My TLDR is if you're interested, try it out.

I love Linux. I prefer it to windows, but windows is fine. Unfortunately, there are some programs I use that don't work properly under linux, primarily Microsoft office, but also some games here and there. I'm sure that I could get those games working under linux, but it's more work. I use linux at work, and windows at home at the moment, but I prefer linux and am very comfortable with both.

Last time I tried Linux was 23 or so years ago. I had no idea what I was doing or at that time knew how to figure it out. That being said, I want to use Linux but am apprehensive.

I see computers as tools. I think that tools should be intuitive and fairly easy to use. My brief experience with Linux left me feeling that it requires a fair amount of time dedicated to setup and upkeep. That's time I would much rather spend on other endeavors.

Windows has gotten to a point where I don't like using it. I will not switch to Apple products, full stop. But I won't make Linux a full-time hobby.

What should I do, friends?

I use Linux on my personal PC and Steam Deck, Windows 10 on my work PC. If I could get away with using Linux at work, I would.

I switched to Linux 5 years ago or thereabouts and haven't really looked back. I don't really like multiplayer games so the odd title that doesn't support anti-cheat on Linux is a non-issue for me. I distro hopped for a while, then settled on Manjaro for a couple of years. I've since moved to Arch, and have been using it for the past 2 years. At this point, I can't see myself ever installing Windows on any device I own again.

Use the best tool for the job. I LOVE Linux, but as of right now it still has too many deal breakers to be my ONLY OS. I have to run it with Windows 11. That aside, my preferred distro is endeavourOS.

Main deal breakers right now include:

• Anti cheat support (this is getting better)
• Game compatibility (this is NEARLY solved but you still get the occasional game that crashes or doesn't wanna work well)
• Variable refresh rate support on multi monitors (yes wayland exists for this, but...)
• Wayland support isn't quite there. Implementations of it still have extra latency, using xwayland for games can have a performance hit, there's still bugs (looking at you SDDM), etc. Once KDE 6 and wine wayland come out I expect this to be solved
• Multi monitor scaling still sucks. KDE does it the best and I still run into problems with blurry applications on my mixed resolution setup

Fact of the matter is, Windows has none of these issues, and the problems windows does have for me (customization, spying, etc) are a lot less major and easier to deal with then the issues I have on Linux.

I daily drive both windows and Linux mint. In my experience, it's been getting a lot better but isn't ready for non-technical users who just want something to work. I needed to disable the nipple button on my laptop cause it drifts hard and I had to resort to the terminal for that.

I'm liking mint a lot, but I would suggest having at the least have one windows machine that you can quickly access.

I personally really like Linux Mint myself. It got my old acer laptop to run again (the windows install became as big as the hard drive and literally wouldn't boot) and I've been using it more and more on my home desktop, with a windows partition just in case. Just know that, while everything you want to do is possible, there WILL be some weird stuff you have to find work arounds for.

Been using Linux for over 10 years at this point. Haven't considered going back to Windows. Even put my boomers on Fedora with GNOME without issue.

I'm interested on trying Linux, but I honestly don't know Where to begin or which "version" is better for me

Games are not a problem for me as I don't care much (at all) about them