I think you need a good baseline amount of spite and resentment for windows and/or mac.

I think I’m pretty knowledgeable with Linux and I still have to dual boot win10 for Cyberpunk 2077, not because it’s can’t run on Linux but I lose more than half of my fps on Linux because I have nvdia GPU… There’s nothing I can do about it until either nvdia fix their driver or nvk driver become as good or better than the proprietary driver.

Dual Boot with Linux Mint - you’ll got everything you need, including printer and scanner cooperation

if you dual boot, something that helped my transition was intentionally adding friction where I wanted to try something new. For example, set your default boot OS to your Linux distro, that way you have to make the choice to intentionally select Windows every time you need it

Download, install, use

I don’t intend to be abrasive, but this post feels like… bait?

I know it’s not.

But still. OP posted few specifics of what they actually do on their computer, nor what their hardware is, nor specific problems, and is not responding to any comments thus far. But “what distro should I use?” is Lemmy catnip. It’s absolutely guaranteed to get a lot of engagement.

It’s also been asked many, many times. If OP is curious, there are literally thousands of comments to sift through on Lemmy alone.

If this was Reddit, I’d say it’s a bot account farming karma for authenticity. But that doesn’t makes any sense, as there’s no engagement incentive like that here on Lemmy.

So yeah. Apologies for impoliteness, I meant nothing personally, but OP, there are many threads like this, and you’d get much more tailored suggestions with a little more specificity.

I think you should first figure out why you aren’t sticking with Linux and go from there.

I just use kubuntu at this point. It works as well as works and feels how I want it to. I don’t need anything super fancy or customizable. Kubuntu hits that sweet spot for me.

Simply put – you’ve got to realize a couple things: 1- Linux is not Windows. 2- Use Linux like a brand new type of software you never heard about – do not make any pre-assumptions. 3- Use Google to search for the most simple things, including “How do I install something on (Linux distro name you’ve chosen)”? 4- Have some patience – you won’t learn (everything) on day one. There will be mistakes, there will be problems you will not solve em today. But you will solve em tomorrow. And here’s a little “cheat sheet” of mine on how to use (and get used with) linux: 1- Get used how to use the package manager. (Where you will search and install stuff.) 2- Learn what are your audio and graphic packages (The “drivers”) are. (See 3- above.) 3- Learn how to run the stuff you installed. 4- Learn how you configure the distro to your liking. Learn all these four steps, and you can consider yourself a linux “pro” user.

If you can stand Windows a bit longer maybe learn FOSS alternatives tp the programs you use on Windows that are also available on Linux before switching. I did that, replaced almost everything I used with open source variants and then switching to Linux wasn’t hard anymore. I distrohopped a little but have settled on Bazzite. I’m not that much of a gamer but having NVDIA drivers and lots of other nice stuff included paired with an immutable distro is perfect for me. No fear of borked updates anymore (haven’t had one for years on other distros as well but updating was still always a bit scary. With Bazzite that happens in the background anyway, most of the time I don’t notice it)

Just accept shit won’t work and drop it cold turkey. Nuke the fuck out of the windows drive and force your self to move on.

If you don’t need to to make a living then fuck it and move on.

You learned to use a computer once you can do it again. When you didn’t know how to do something in the past you looked it up. When you needed an application you churned though options till one worked.

Shit breaks or is half assed on windows. Your just use to what you know that works. Your use to having your apps your use to.

Learn to get over the fact you gotta relearn things, find new options, and will be frustrated.

After like a month you will be fine Basically git gud. You were gud growing up and got bad. Time to return to your childhood and have fun learning and exploring again.

Also plain ass normal fedora is going to be your best middle ground if you want the widest possiable support of software. Arch if you don’t mind a bit more leg work with the aur.

I’ve been running only Linux for 25 years. Any software you think you need that you only can get on Windows you don’t. Drop windows, say goodbye to your apps, and explore the alternatives. Try to have fun. A growth mindset helps

Personally, I found steamOS to be user friendly and has great video game compatibility (as long as you have compatible hardware). There will be endless Linux users suggesting better options, but it got me away from windows, so I suggest it.

It’s very simple.

You simply switch your apps too, not just the OS. Everyone thinks that they can switch the OS 1:1, but it’s not like that. You will never be happy if you expect the same apps on all the OSes. Instead of photoshop, you use Gimp. Instead of Illustrator, you use Inkscape. Instead of resolve/premiere, you use kdenlive. And so on. You will have to invest some time to relearn not just the OS, but the apps too.

The ideal thing to me is if you have your last pc. You throw linux on that (I recommend zorin) and you have it available alonw with your newer windows machine. In most cases I believe the linux machine will perform better. Move as much as you can to it until you have whatever little things you still need windows for. Ideally you realize you need windows for so little that you flip the script and change your newer machine to linux and windows as your backup or you put linux on your next machine and the older windows machine sticks around.

if you don’t need those windows only programs to earn a living, just install linux, don’t fuck around with dual booting. accept that you’re gonna have to learn new things. you’ll adapt.

if you do need windows for something, i guess dual boot, but make a pact with yourself to only use it for that one program, and switch back when you’re done, and keep looking for replacements so you can cut that last chain lashing you to m$. i highly recommend alternativeto for that.