Ive been teetering on the edge of a fulI move to linux for some time but never could find the energy. I logged onto my windows PC last night, and something about the notification ping, the busted start menu and hearing the fans go wild even though I was doing nothing really pissed me off.

Thought fuck it. Booted up balena etcher, and 30 mins late I was in dual boot Ubuntu. Spent the night getting used to rider and getting the game I'm working on running and I'm NEVER going back to windows.

I tried linux mint a while back and had no end of issues but with Ubuntu it was seamless and painless. I am converted.

(which essentially requires pirating an enterprise version to have a chance)

So true! I owe some of my Linux journey to the discomfort from the downgrade from Windows Enterprise at work to the (kind of shit) Windows Home, at home.

If you live in the GUI you really won’t notice much friction. If you work in power shell or command prompt regularly it’s going to be a lot of muscle memory to break but from the GUI? Anything outside of GNOME will feel like home for you.