>>1326365Well I'm going to preface this post by admitting that I'm highly biased as both a developer and a programmer who is able to build his own tools to make a Linux distro extremely custom to my own preferences and needs. But:
For me? I never really missed Windows, and you don't have to either, because you can easily dual-boot with Linux / Windows.
A new OS definitely has a bit of a learning curve when you're first switching over, but for me, once I got it set up the way I like it, I actually prefer using Linux and dread having to boot into Windows to play a game that doesn't work on Linux. Or, you know, proprietary software like FL Studio and Clip Studio Paint. Otherwise, Linux is great. Really puts the "personal" back into "Personal Computing."
Idk I'm not really good at convincing people, but something like Gentoo is comfy because you get out of it what you put into it. Quite literally no two Gentoo installations are the same, because (and I'm stealing this from another forum post because I'm not eloquent):
>Your Gentoo install is unique. You made it the way you wanted.>Gentoo is only a set of tools you use to design your own Linux distro.>Gentoo is the ebuild repository ::gentoo and the portage package manager. Everything else is upstream.I highly recommend Gentoo or some flavor of Linux to get started on and then work your way to Gentoo... People say it's just a meme but I honestly wouldn't trade the years I spent with it for anything else. I started with Ubuntu, went to Arch for a couple years, then finally settled on Gentoo in 2017. Never looked back. It's my machine, it behaves exactly how I tell it to.
