FTFY

It’s just wild that you have to do ‘dozens’ of things to ‘clean up’ a ‘fresh install’.
I had windows 10, and it was pain. Never going to 11, switched to Linux, even though it’s more difficult for gaming, everything else is better.
- And you'll still never be able to get rid of all the telemetry and annoying shit..
  
  but if Microsoft really wants to know how you're doing, you should just let them so they stop worrying 😔
- I just did the switch myself on a new PC and getting gaming working wasn't even that hard. I picked fedora cinnamon.
  Difficulties I had:
  When trying the initial live boot, it failed checksum... Because windows fucked with the drive after it saw the utility that wrote the image to it left it "unmounted" (and autoplay would had also fucked with it if I hadn't turned that off ages ago).
  Wired ethernet wasn't working. Wifi does work, currently using that until I get around to working on that again, though it might just work now that it's updated.
  After installing steam, many games said they were windows games only. Had to enable a setting inside steam to get it to just run them all via proton. Only tried two games so far, but haven't seen any issues yet. My saves are usable on the one game I was already playing on windows.
  Optical audio wasn't working. Worked around that by plugging in my soundbar to usb, though I've also confirmed that the analog port does work. This one might also have been resolved by updating.
  Had to set up permissions for steam to use my games partition instead of my home dir for installing games, though I think this was because I missed a step during the install.
  It took more effort getting YouTube (well porn but apparently the same issue affects YouTube) working (netflix just worked, quality seems to even be better, like it doesn't seem to default to a low quality stream before moving up as the video plays like it would in windows). And even that was only because the desktop I picked didn't use the same software as instructions for enabling 3rd party repositories and I for some reason decided to search for a GUI option instead of just running the command I could have run from the start.
  The only difficult part is that with all of the available desktops out there that do things a bit differently, it can be hard to find solutions specific to the one you're using. Like I might have caused some future issues by installing gnome-software since cinnamon uses a different tool for that. But at this point, I feel like making the jump to a different desktop (or even distro) will be much easier, so don't feel like I'm committed to the one I did pick.
  Which is so much better than windows because on that platform I had to struggle to not be committed to things I didn't and wouldn't pick. And it made me avoid updating often because I didn't want to commit to whatever nagware ms added this time to try to get me to use some software I wasn't interested in using.
- Windows 11 us honestly pretty good. I wouldn't go back to Windows 10 personally.
  I do run Linux pretty much exclusively though
- I don't know anything about Plex, but I know people have written scripts for migrating Jellyfin databases and installations. Are there no scripts like that for Plex?
  
  Why is it so hard to move plex to linux?
- Until your WiFi driver stops getting updates.
  ref: Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down
  
  Funnily enough I've had to block the updates for my WiFi card in my Windows PC for years now as if it updates it just does Bluescreen loops until I boot into safe mode with out networking and remove the driver.
  It blows.
  Good news is that Linux handles that card just fine.
  
  Headlines, lol

Literally yesterday I had windows 10 shit out its own asshole and corrupt itself. Nothing I could do would recover the windows install. Wouldn’t even download a new replacement in the recovery menu.
Ripped the drive out and checked the files. All my personal stuff is there. Just windows that decided it had enough.
Took this opportunity to install Linux mint. Been using it on my old desktop in the living room and it’s been phenomenal.
Fuck you windows and thanks for making the decision easy for me.
- I had the same happen to my Win 11 install. Best ad for Linux i‘ve ever gotten. I installed Bazzite OS on that machine a day later and over the next few days my other machines got Fedora.
- Yes, similar here. Windows 10 had been telling me I needed to upgrade to 11 but that my PC (a Lenovo X1 Carbon with a pretty decent spec for 5 years ago - i7 and 16GB of RAM) couldn't support it and would have to be replaced. I had run Linux Mint for many years on a Samsung from around 2010, which still works, so I thought now is the time to dump Windows. Installed Mint 22 and everything just works.
- Heeey, another Windows to Mint convert! I did the same thing a couple of months back and have been having a great time, hope it goes smoothly for you too!
  
  Currently dealing with getting DaVinci resolve running and getting more to grips with Linux as a daily driver.
  Any issues that you have encountered?
- This is basically how I got started too, but worse lol. Mine was just w10 wouldn't make it past the "pin" screen, just blackness, tried to let it load for 24hr and it never did, so instead of even trying recovery I just rescued my files with a live usb of fedora (mounted that drive and bypassed the pin no less, who knew) and once I was done just installed fedora. Never looked back, it physically pains me when I have to use windows at work.
- That's almost certainly due to a hardware failure. I would validate everything or else you might end up with a similar situation.
  Good that you are moving off Windows 10 though
  
  Probably a good idea either way but Windows has broken itself more than I have had hardware failures on the devices I've used with Windows.
  
  So far everything seems to be in operating order. How would I go about testing it?

I have to use Windows 11 for work. It’s bad. But this past weekend my son was getting poor performance of a steam game so I dusted off the old windows partition to see if it was a compatibility issue (it wasn’t, my hardware simply doesn’t cut it - but it sucked less on Linux). But damn, managing a windows system is TERRIBLE.
And what for? You can’t even change the system font. This ducking bullshit system won’t afford you any comforts! It’s all locked in place, shoved down your throat.

I accidentally did it because I wanted to resize the Windows partition but KDE partition manager failed and it corrupted the filesystem. I wiped the entire drive and now I use it as a Steam library. I don't even regret it, my setup feels clean now and I have a ton of space for games

I've never gone full-Linux, always dual-booted. But I'm finally over it and gaming on Linux has matured. So I've resolved to wipe my drive and force myself to only use Linux. Kind of excited about it! But mostly, I just don't want Recall, bloatware, or Microsoft's propriety bullshit and selling my data...

Can you imagine being in control of your hardware? With Linux you can.

Steam os any day now (งツ)ว

Relevant thread.

Maybe they don't want to use Linux? Perhaps we should stop trying to force Linux. Use whatever floats your boat.
- Maybe they don't want to clean up a fresh install of Windows, maybe they don't own a computer, maybe they don't have arms, maybe they can't read
- Your sentiment is good and all, but we're talking about !linuxmemes@lemmy.world here :)