Howdy.

I was paid to help people in games for a while.

In non online games I would win quite a lot at Warhammer/ Magic tournaments.

But none of these will entirely pay the bills.

I’m using Nobara and Fedora. I think Mint is the most popular.

Check out distrowatch.com it explains it well.

You can bypass the TPM requirements for windows using Rufus to get Windows 11. There are tons of videos on how to do that.

That being said, I use Linux as a daily driver and love it. You can always test it out on a USB and decide if you want to install it. It won’t run games well from a USB, but it at least will allow you to see what you like.

Either way good luck with your adventure and if you have questions this community is spectacular and really likes to help people!

Thank you. All very good points.

Hopefully none, why do you like Gnome? I thought it was okay, but I really love KDE more. I don’t hate Gnome. It seems really good for anyone who uses a touchpad or touchscreen.

It’s what I use!

Glad you said that. I had that issue on my fedora computer.

I’m using Fedora, but I’m not going to say it’s my favorite. I liked MX and OpenSUSE a lot. Just had a hard time with running them on a computer. Fedora just worked out the box.

I like Fedora. Can’t tell yoh why I rolled with it though.

Great write up, thank you!

Can you elaborate a bit on don’t need or want software?

Nope. Other than a concussion and some face damage nothing came of it. The driver was a teenager just learning how to drive.

Got hit by a car. Blacked out. I have some scars on my face from being pushed into the road.

I don’t think we will be losing optical disks ever.

If burned properly they hold storage for a very long time without data loss. IIRC Facebook burns optical disks for old photographs and instead of having a hard drive array or tape library they had a RAID based optical disk system.

Optical disks are great, but not for the daily user since most media content is online and most storage is judged on being rewritable.

I know a lot of people are going to say to use Linux.

I would honestly however go with a curveball answer you may not expect, try running Linux.

I’ll PM you.

I don’t want a snake as a pet. But gosh that is cute.

It sounds a bit silly, but I have been there a lot. For me there was thoughts left over from an unfinished day that would keep me up. It took me years to figure out what the underlying issue was. Insomnia sucks.

Will it work with KDE?

Honestly, I don’t think it makes a huge difference for desktop users. I use Nobara because it has built in comparatively out of the box. I also run Fedora 42. All work pretty well.