It was extremely easy when I did it. Had everything running in 20 min. The real drag was me wanting to use a more efficient file system, so I spent a day converting my drives to ext4.

Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I've been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I'm running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.

Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don't always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.

It's pretty straight forward if you don't do anything else, get a fresh new drive just for it. I've been using Mint for a few weeks now and honestly other than some glitch i keep experience here and there(steam store page is noticeably slower and laggier for some reason, and sound glitch that require restart to get rid of) and some initial setup fiddling to suit me, i really doesn't notice any different than what i've been doing in win10.

The main problem for most people when installing Linux is partitioning. Normies usually only use Windows that has been pre-installed, and never install Windows from scratch.

I think you should try Linux on a VM first to get used to it.

Zorin and Cachy are great choices too, but Mint is awesome as well. Anything but Windows 11 lol

Yeah, my pc has been sitting around for over two months. I think I’m gonna go with Cachy on my machine, just need to find some time 😫