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It's pretty hard switch. I have a high interest in Linux, and I have 100% game compatibility. But I'm always running into issues that are so bad I have to abandon ship. I broken Ubuntu, Nobara, Debian, OpenSuse, and EndeavorOS. Truly Linux isn't ready for newbies.
What are your issues? My problems were games on ntfs filesystem and secureboot. After fixing those two i can say windows is terrible and requires tons of tinkering to get things working as opposed to linux where you just plug it in and it chugs.
Never had problems with games ever, mostly I'll just do an update and get to play black screen simulator. I'll select the previous version in grub, but I still wanna update and know why it didn't work, but there no answers online or people willing to help.
That's one of many problems I'll face. So I'll go back to Windows while it is terrible and clunky, it's at least troubleshoot-able.
i wouldn't generally say not ready for newbies. It depends on your hardware and your individual way of doing things.
you cannot just expect that year or decade long windows habits translate seamlessly to Linux. so there will be a bit of a wall to climb for most people and many failed attempts. that is ok. just try again if you feel like it and you will arrive eventually with a hell of a new computer related problem solving skillset you automatically pick up along the way
To counter this, my experience was completely different. The transition was very easy.
Just set up some type of snapshots (I used Timeshift with auto snapshots made before every update and made available immediately on grub boot menu).
I ran EndeavourOS for over a year this way, and broke it a whole bunch of times while learning the ins and outs. Timeshift was clutch, and made reverting any mistakes super easy.
Now I'm on Bazzite, which is atomic and immutable, so I don't really worry about breaking anything because I couldn't if I wanted to (I mean I could, but it's not easy).
Yep I very familiar with time shift, but some of the problems out of the box, for example OpenSuse would have loud annoying audio glitching whenever I would scroll within a window. When I looked into it; it seemed like other users never found a solution.
That's an odd one. I never had that on OpenSUSE, did have static once though, but I think polling speed or something fixed it.
Linux is ready for newbies, just as Windows is. You just have to relearn stuff and not treat it like Windows.
I'm planning on trying Nobara again soon, since that seems to be where I learned the most, unfortunate bc I really wanted EndeavorOS to work out
Try Garuda, the gaming edition is well configured for Nvidia cards, and from what I've seen AMD, out of the box. There was some small issues I had Nobara that I've not had with Garuda, and at the time I was trying Nobara it was just GE doing all the dev work on it. It has a very active forum where the dev team is quick to answer questions. The two times I ran into an issue that turned out to be a bug, I had devs replying quickly and it was fixed quickly. Highly recommend.
I'll throw Garuda on my Ventoy for sure!
Wherever you land, I hope Linux treats you well. Keep trying different distros, there's a lot of choice out there, which is kinda the problem tbh.