I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open source software and an operating system without any of the bullshit that comes with Windows, but most of the open source stuff I have is on my android and fairly easy to install. Installing and using Linux just feels like it’ll be a whole different beast that’ll eat up most of my time and I’m kind of intimidated by it.

TL;DR Linux scawy, how does a barely computer literate scrub like me who’s used nothing but windows since the dawn of their life get started with Linux?

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      6 months ago

      Fedora’s installer can be confusing for new users and you need to know some technical terms (3rd party repos, Flathub etc) to set it up

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        6 months ago

        The installer is actually pretty easy, even though a bit strange in some parts, really stable.

        Like, better than Calamares in my eyes.

        But yes, on Fedora you basically need

        flatpak remote-delete -y fedora
        flatpak remote-add flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
        

        And on NVIDIA good luck, I would honestly just use uBlue there.