This is easy though. The amount of times I've kicked my toe into something on the way to the kitchen and ended up in 12th plane of torment is innumerable.
Is this how cyborgs are made?
One thing that might not be obvious is that the All feed is different too, as it only shows posts from communities someone on the instance has subscribed to. But since there are ways to search communities across instances, it isn't really a big deal. Unless you're on an instance of one or two people maybe.
Federation and moderation are probably where the instance matters most. Also, the matter of who runs the instance is kind of important considering stability and longevity of the instance. (mine for example will probably be gone within a month once I break something)
The package managers are actually a huge upgrade, at least in my opinion. I was always annoyed having to hunt for the right site for the right installer, now I can just search and install with a command without even opening a browser. But the biggest benefit is the updating. One command to update everything is so handy, one command and all my applications and drivers are updated just like that. But there is the issue of many programs simply not supporting Linux. For those you'll sadly have to find replacements or workarounds.
If you want to get rid of Grub instead of what others have suggested, you could try booting into Windows and look for "advanced startup" and do a startup repair from there. That might destroy Grub and replace it with Windows bootloader again. If it works, your Linux stuff will remain on the drive, but Windows will boot like before. (you can easily reformat the HDD drive from Windows afterwards to use it for storage)
Some of my personal tips for moving to Linux:
My useless skill is being a RuneScape lore repository. There's very little that I don't know about that subject.
I do this to myself and then get disappointed 20min later.
"Nah, surely they wouldn't make it that obvious, that would be downright bad writing... More clues, they must be trying to lead me astray and then surprise me with a better twist! Oh, it really was just the obvious one... Hmm."
I was going to say I haven't had any issues, but then remembered I only sort by New and Top...
I very much agree. Learning English as a foreign language, it feels very wrong to use plural for a single person. I'm still not quite used to it! Although, had I been taught that early on, I doubt it would feel any weirder than using "you are" for a single person.
Pfft, rest of the world should start following Finns on this and call everyone and everything 'it'! Except pets for some reason.
I've actually never seen this format before and I must say I quite like it.
I tried setting up an instance for my personal use today out of curiosity. So far the most notable personal benefits have been much more responsive site and easier time curating what I seeon my feed. The latter is easy enough since my feed only includes posts from communities people on my instance have subscribed to... which is also quite a downside since I'm the only one on the instance...
Oh and I'm able to federate with whomever I want, compared to if I were on lemmy.world, I couldn't see posts from beehaw.org and vice versa. I'll also sleep soundly knowing that the stupid pictures I'll be uploading (too lazy to upload them on external site) won't be filling up someone else's precious servers.
I do this all the time, although admittedly not when speaking to others... It's useful for problem-solving if one gets stuck, a little while of no thinking clears the board and allows thoughts to again wander new paths. It's also useful for preventing headaches from muscle tension!