Hiya, New to Linux(10 days) tried Mint, didn’t get on with it, Bazzite I liked it but wanted to explore a bit, CachyOS not for me(yet), finally Garuda(dragonised) loved the look although not as easy as Bazzite but I persevered and today i succeeded in my aims which were to be able to do everything that I do in windoze, it involved using the terminal as well as installing flatpacks . First Steam because most of my games are there, that was really easy, then Chrome because it gives me access to both Netflix and Amazon prime and YouTube, Chrome was a bit harder because it wouldn’t download and install using the default browser(that’s how I did it with both Mint and Bazzite), bit of searching and found out how to install it using the terminal. But the thing I am most pleased about is I have installed Battle.net using bottles which enabled me to download my favourite ARPG Diablo 2 resurrected. The biggest problem I have had is with the archaic Unix file system, I mean what a palaver just reading an external drive/flash drive. So I can now get rid of windoze forever. Yes it’s going to take me years to become as fluent with Linux as I am with windoze, but hey my first windoze machine was 3.1 and I didn’t like it then, BUT windoze 11 was the final straw, it’s not an OS it’s a data mining virus. Sorry about the rant, but I’m a bit chuffed about my entry into Linux and this old dog being able to learn new tricks.
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First off Welcome.
Not a rant but the normal way most of us feel after ditching Micro
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Welcome! Hope you’ll enjoy garuda as much as we do! 