There be 🐇🐰

It was a hole alright

It should be VIM

No one comes back from VIM.

Those who say they have are dirty liars... or have it paused in the background.

Am the the only weirdo who swapped over to Linux without knowing a ton about it, and didn't really have any issues? I just started with a Windows-user-friendly distro (Mint Cinnamon), and then just looked up how to get through any weird (to me) issues that I encountered over time. Gradually learned more about what's under the hood as I went.

But I see these memes and stories about "I tried Linux, it lasted a week and I went back to Windows" here and there.

It's not scary. Am I missing something? XoD

My friends never followed me.

I'm alone in the dark (mode).

Your friends lived happily ever after.

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Im about to take the same plunge into Linux. Any tips for a new comer?

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/456

If he were doing it for real he would build the stairs himself.

Damn, this meme slaps so hard. I didn't chase any friends down there, but I thought it sounded like a secret nerd club that I wanted to be a part of. Using Linux is a part of my daily life now, professionally and personally, 10 years later.

Oh the horror! I have a laptop running Linux! Two laptops even!!!

Somebody help me!

Windows is too bloated to run on said laptops. On one, during it's life, it could barely do an update! I eventually wiped Windows and put Linux on it. It worked fine, just not very fast. I mean 4Gbytes is a bit of a squeeze.

check out https://distrowatch.com/
hundreds of distros there, unbiased reviews, download links, search engine, and distros that are flagged as "beginner-friendly" are where to start

Make some back ups. Its a good practice in general and when you are unfamiliar with Linux and especially the terminal it's easy to accidentally kill the os. Always take a second to think about what you just typed if the command started with using sudo.

I've installed Linux many times and I always go back to Windows 🤷