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Enjoy, friend! Glad you had a good experience and hope this post helps more people make the switch.
I have been enjoying pop os. A lot more plug and play than I was expecting.
Switched like 2 almost 3 years ago now, was rough at 1st but once I got used to it, I never looked back
Still dule booting win and Ubuntu but ony using Windows for Vr, most of my gaming and time is spent on Ubuntu, best switch I've ever done, really makes you love your PC so much more <3 Linux
What software do you need that you keep Windows alive for?
@warmaster @BigChungus am thinking of ditching windows for Linux based, maybe kubuntu distro..??
Best advice I can give you is don't take advice. There's a perfect distro for you, but only you know what you like, and you have preferences that you aren't even aware of, so... you need to walk that path on your own to find your perfect distro.
Best you can do with the recommendations is put them on a list of distros to try and settle for nothing. Try them all, you'll fall in love with one of them. If you like two, find out how to add those features you like to the other one, the easiest wins.
But should he take your advice to not take advice? Now that's the real question here.
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The only thing currently stopping me from using *nix as my main OS is the fact that my wireless card does not work with linux distros, and the graphics driver sometimes decides to commit Seppuku.
What wireless card?
It's a Realtek, don't remember the exact model, but every time I tried to make it work, it simply didn't. Manually installing the driver didn't get me much further either.
I'm not at home to check but my one system may have this, I had to add lines to hw config so it recognized the card. i can check in a few days
Yeah Realtek is a pain. I was thinking broadcom
I get it for personal or even business use on a small scale is great. I use Linux daily, I'm a sysadmin and manage windows and Linux servers. My main desktop is windows. I'm considering switching my home pc over to Linux again since generally (from what I hear) gaming works mostly and that was what used to always bring me back to windows. Now I don't really game that much anymore anyway so it may not even really matter that much for me.
But for a business that has hundreds or thousands of user devices that they need to secure, configure, meet compliance, etc, how would they do that with a Linux distribution? Microsoft has active directory and group policy to manage this kind of thing (and now moving toward AAD and intune to manage device configuration) but I have yet to see any kind of Linux desktop distribution that has a central configuration management, patch management and security management. Sure you can configure it to auto update and send it out hoping for the best, but what happens when a device stops checking in, or the VPN client breaks, or there is some software we need to push out to all our users immediately? What choice do we have?
Yes, it's possible to deploy Linux in enterprise. Google even develops ChromeOS for that purpose, deploys Chromebooks in-house, and sells Chromebooks. Heck, you can enroll your Linux boxes into Active Directory with SSSD if you want to. You can use pull-based configuration management tools to configure workstations. Albeit rare, there're MDM solutions similar to Windows ones with Linux support, such as Kolide and Scalefusion. I agree that the Windows sysadmin experience is seamless if you fit into Microsoft's model, compared to Linux. Linux sysadmins must know how to write scripts to bridge the gap. Although I suspect the Microsoft experience will get worse as Microsoft deprecates older solutions in favor of Azure.