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I'm just so sick of Microsoft and Google. But there's two things holding me back:

  1. I wanna play Steam games on my PC

  2. I am just an amateur hobbyist, not a tech wizard

Is there any hope for me?

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[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

yeah I started with popOS, used it for about a year, then tried Fedora for a week but figured if Im moving distro to get the latest and dive deeper might as well go with Arch, that lasted like two months with hyprland then decided to try bazzite and its been solid, everything I need is just there already, shortcuts working just like windows so its easy to transition from work laptop to personal, screen shots, lock, mounting network shares etc

[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 1 points 6 hours ago

I have a relatively easy and nice setup on PopOS currently and I don't want you switch just because I don't want to lose my files and setup.

Is there a process you recommend to transfer UI, etc. to another distro as an experiment? I know how to transfer my video files, for example, just don't know how or if other programs can transfer easily between distros.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 6 points 13 hours ago

Yeah I haven’t had to open the terminal or download a single driver yet. Another person says that apparently it has all kinds of problems and breaks all the time because it’s based on fedora?