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Solid advice (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

This may not be the place to ask, but is there a guide you’d recommend for a lifelong windows user to try out Linux?

I’ve had a Steam Deck for a while now and love it and feel I could probably make the leap.

I have no idea why this comic in particular motivated me to finally ask.

Edit: I just want to say an incredible thank you to everyone and your advice. I was just looking for a link to a guide and ya’ll wrote them yourselves.

I think the prevailing advice of creating a virtual machine to play around in seems like a very good place to start.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Approach it more like a hobby than like anything else. Test out true waters with a virtual machine (Google is your friend) and YouTube/any other guides. If it's not for you, so be it.

If it piques your interest, keep going on down the rabbit hole, and continue exploring. And even then, if you get the feeling you know enough, or are satisfied, you will at least have a workable environment to your liking or have the knowledge to change it so.

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