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I'd like to try Linux for real one day, I've hap hazardly tried it a few times over the years but ahh fuck it. I barely have time these days to do shit that I want than worry about switching OS's, maybe when I retire one day or kids move out. Probably too late then, MS will have all the data on me that everyone is so concerned about.
The only times modern Linux is even a problem is if you have to do something really weird, support odd hardware (which sometimes it supports better than Windows), or run in to a botched kernel upgrade or similar. If you have mainstream hardware, no really oddball devices with special drivers for linux, and don't care to try tricky stuff, Linux is a pretty solid OS these days.
Definitely easier to install and set up than Windows if you count all the account nagging Windows does. Even the distros that make you choose a lot of things during install are less naggy...
These days it's far easier to install and run Linux than it is Windows. If you don't install proprietary drivers from nVidia, which are as stable as they are on Windows, you pretty much have trouble-free existence. And with Steam/Proton it's not even a question of gaming anymore. More to the point of article here, Linux will not ask for hardware upgrade ever.
It takes an hour at most to figure it all out. You can test drive it before hand without changing nothing in your computer. And once you figure it out, it can be instantly productive depending on what software you use. Here, Microsoft made a neat guide to teach you how to do it.
I'm very intrigued by everyone's responses and appreciate them. I'm very tempted to give it a go. Perhaps while I'm on leave at the end of the year. Is there a distro that you'd recommend? I mainly game, do game development and watch plex. It's also critical that onedrive works flawlessly. And I also have xbox game pass, this needs to work on Linux too. Doing a quick search, I don't think it does?