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'm going to build a PC and I'm thinking about switching to Linux and need advice

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 16:57:47 No.1551622 View View Reply Original Report

I think it might be a good idea to drop windows and switch to Linux but I'm confused on how it will work at might want some general advice.
. I use discord a lot but have heard the app doesn't work well on linux
. I use the Outlook app and know it won't work well on linux. Any email apps you can recommend me?
. I read lots of hentai and heard linux has less malware on sites like these due to them mainly targeting windows users. Is this true?
. I'm thinking about using mint but, I would still like to customize my browser and get cool stuff like this https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1l5ll27/hyprland_i_3_quickshell/
. I'm worried about fucking up my computer somehow if I mess around with the commands too much. What's the best videos I can watch to learn Linux?
.I love playing games on Steam is gaming on Linux easier now?
Thank you in advance anons. Any other tips are greatly appreciated

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 18:12:58 No.1551625 Report

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>>1551622
>I use discord a lot but have heard the app doesn't work well on linux
Can't comment, but the client is available officially on Flathub. The part I heard doesn't or didn't work well is the screen sharing.
>I use the Outlook app and know it won't work well on linux. Any email apps you can recommend me?
Thunderbird
>I read lots of hentai and heard linux has less malware on sites like these due to them mainly targeting windows users. Is this true?
Don't count on stopping the bullet, count on not getting shot in the first place. I look at tons of hentai and never got anything.
>I love playing games on Steam is gaming on Linux easier now?
It's easy and most games work out of the box. Some games require you to change your proton version, usually to ProtonGE which you can easily install with ProtonUp-Qt or applying tricks with Protontricks. You can see instructions on what to do on protondb.com.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 18:14:56 No.1551626 Report

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>>1551625
I should mention that some games and software can't be made to work. This includes most games with anti-cheat and shit like Adobe suite.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 18:30:19 No.1551627 Report

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You'll also probably want to go with an AMD card, they are more FOSS friendly and their Linux drivers are better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 19:47:51 No.1551631 Report

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>>1551626
This is mostly true. You CAN get Adobe CS6 suite to run using wine emulator. But it's best to check out https://www.winehq.org/ to see if the apps you want are listed in the app database.

But for the newer releases of Adobe stuff, he's right, it won't run.

Linux is a lot of tweaking and screwing around to get stuff stable and working for the most part. It has become a lot easier to do though over the years. But there is a learning curve.

If I were you, I'd try some of the liveCD/DVD releases from https://www.linuxmint.com/ and https://ubuntu.com/download

There are a lot of different distributions called Distros. There is a lot of infighting between Linux users over which is "da bestest" so don't get caught up in that crap at first. You have to learn to crawl before walking and then before running. So the LiveCD/DVD's are the best way to go. You can use USB sticks too to run portable versions from there too. It's way faster to run from a USB3 port on a USB3 stick for example than running from a DVD that has to load to RAM for example.

BUT, it gets you playing and tinkering right away. You can see if all your hardware and peripherals are compatible for example and get used to the layouts of things. You an then go on YouTube and start learning tutorials to get you up to speed quickly. Books I find are super in depth but are outdated quickly. Annas-archive.org has lots.

Anyhow, Linux is cool, I like it. But it's a huge learning curve compared to Windows or even Mac which is based on Linux apparently.

Linux Mint and Ubuntu are probably the two easiest to learn from starting from Scratch. Mint is more Windows like that you may be used to. Ubuntu is super simple to use at first anyhow. I think they did some telemetry bullshit though which I don't like or want. So that's why I would suggest trying Mint first.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 11 Dec 2025 19:53:27 No.1551632 Report

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>>1551631
One other thing I would suggest you look into right away on YouTube is using Oracle's Virtual Machine software called Virtualbox. It's free and open source but it can allow you to install linux as a host OS and windows as a guest OS. This lets you run Linux as your secure daily driver and using some of your old Windows apps when needed in a virtual computer/machine that's booted from within Linux. Windows becomes an application within a running Linux operating system. And within that application, you can run say Adobe creative suite. It's emulated and slower than native, but it's usable.

Again, YouTube has lots of videos on virtual machines and what they are, how to set them up and use them. It's a learning curve, but well worth it if you're going to be a Linux daily driver.

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Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 02:17:14 No.1551680 Report

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>There are a lot of different distributions called Distros. There is a lot of infighting between Linux users over which is "da bestest" so don't get caught up in that crap at first. You have to learn to crawl before walking and then before running. So the LiveCD/DVD's are the best way to go. You can use USB sticks too to run portable versions from there too. It's way faster to run from a USB3 port on a USB3 stick for example than running from a DVD that has to load to RAM for example.
Thanks anon I'm gonna see if I can do this. It's admittedly confusing but I'm thinking about trying mint ( although I heard it's a worse version of windows? )
>nyhow, Linux is cool, I like it. But it's a huge learning curve compared to Windows or even Mac which is based on Linux apparently.
Yeah the learning curve scares me a bit and I'm kinda retarded. I think I want to learn this though to get better at programming and escape windows bloat.
>One other thing I would suggest you look into right away on YouTube is using Oracle's Virtual Machine software called Virtualbox. It's free and open source but it can allow you to install linux as a host OS and windows as a guest OS. This lets you run Linux as your secure daily driver and using some of your old Windows apps when needed in a virtual computer/machine that's booted from within Linux
That's really cool! I'm gonna look into that
>>1551625
>Don't count on stopping the bullet, count on not getting shot in the first place. I look at tons of hentai and never got anything.
Even on sketchy sites like hentaifox? I've almost gotten infected on windows a few times with stuff bypassing my adblock. Linux does scare me because windows defender isn't there
>Thunderbird
Dumb question but can it see my emails and/or passwords? I've avoided using 3rd party email managers before.
>It's easy and most games work out of the box
Good to know!
Thanks for the answers anons

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 05:03:18 No.1551692 Report

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>>1551622
are you comfortable using CLI?
>Yes
go for it
>no
stick to windows

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 13:57:48 No.1551718 Report

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>>1551692
If you can copy and paste text into a box, you can use CLI

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 21:17:41 No.1551748 Report

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Hey anon, I posted earlier about the virtualbox stuff...glad you're looking into that. I think it makes a lot of sense for you.

Thing is, I should have mentioned too that you should look into using hard drive backup software such as Acronis True Image (retail), Clonezilla (open source), Macrium Reflect (retail), etc. There are lots of brands out there but I have used ATI and MR and are comfortable with their backups and performance. You can find pirated copies out there but Clonezilla is a good one too to do full hard drive image backups so you can have a fail safe revert state to restore your computer to should you mess something up or wish to revert to in case you hate Linux.

You will need an external hard drive for these backup, I'd suggest a USB 3 drive and USB 3 port. But it will work too via USB 2.0 just slower. So if you can afford one, definitely buy one. Then do a complete system backup of your existing hard drive with maximum compression to save space onto your external hard disk.

Then you can decide on what you want to do going forward with Linux. Like do you want to nuke the entire hard drive and install Linux freshly? Then install Virtual Box on Linux. Then install Windows as a VM (Virtual Machine) to run WITHIN Linux. See, there is some thought process here to go through...

If you're running Windows now, you can install Virtual Box on Win and then create a VM of Linux to run within Win to get your feet wet and to start to learn how everything works. This is the lowest threat to losing your existing data/setup/functionality. This is where I'd start out with today if I were you.

The key is to make full OS hard drive backups to your external drive as fail safes. It only takes 30 mins or less to restore your entire computer to a working state from the USB drive. You can do this from within whatever main HOST operating system you are using. This is why I'd suggest trying out Clonezilla and go on YouTube to watch tutorial videos on how to use it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 21:27:31 No.1551750 Report

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>>1551748
So in short:
1) Look into hard drive backup solutions. Clonezilla https://clonezilla.org/

2) Obtain external hard drive. Backup your existing Win installation to external hard drive as a fail safe restore point. Do a FULL HARD DRIVE BACKUP not incremental backup at first...

3) Decide which OS you want to use as your main daily driver going forward. Linux or Windows. From there you can either nuke your hard drive and install Linux fully and completely and then install Oracle Virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/ and get decide which virtual machine version of Windows you want as guest OS's. You can run Win 7, 8.1, 10 or 11 or all of the above if you have enough space and RAM.

Or you can keep Windows as is, and install Virtualbox within Windows to run a test virtual machine of Linux of whatever distros/flavors you wish to test out. This is cool because you can run Mint and Ubuntu or anything else you like to see what fits for you.

You suddenly have massive flexibility. The keys are just to have an external drive to make backups so you can revert at any moment. It takes minutes versus days setting things up the long way...program by program...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 12 Dec 2025 22:22:32 No.1551771 Report

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>>1551750
How To Image Any SSD / HDD With Clonezilla - Windows / Linux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci2VyorBjyQ&pp=ygUfYmFja3VwIHdpbmRvd3MgdXNpbmcgY2xvbmV6aWxsYQ%3D%3D

Running Windows In Linux: A VirtualBox Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN1MWBa3yiw&pp=ygURbGludXggIHZpcnR1YWxib3g%3D

See what I am getting at now?

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Anonymous Sat 13 Dec 2025 01:27:35 No.1551795 Report

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>>1551718
That's good to know. Seems easy enough
>>1551748
>>1551750
>>1551771
Genuinely good advice. Don't know what parts to greentext exactly but I really appreciate it.

Btw I'm thinking about switching to mint

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