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Looking to make the switch - Advice? (feddit.uk)
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Afternoon all.

I'm looking to make the switch away from Windows, and I wondered if people had any advice, distro suggestions and so on.

My main use cases for my PC are Gaming, Writing and Image editing. Things I'd love to have working are all my games, Epic, Steam, GoG and Game pass. I already use OpenOffice so I'm probably fine with that. And I currently use Photoshop, so a good alternative for that would be good. Finally Spotify, Discord and VPNs etc

Any and all help and suggestions would be welcomed, thanks in advance.

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 4 points 21 hours ago

Chiming in to emphasize that the biggest deal to you probably will be the desktop environment, not the underlying distro. Given your stated requirements, most distros could work.