Never used Linux before. At least not enough to say I've worked on it. But these discussions in here, they've pushed me. I'll do it now. I'll try Fedora. Right now! And never come back...till it's ABSOLUTELY needed.

Now, u step on a free land (free as in speech).
congrats 👍

All the best, you can find us in the same place you left us :)

@Microsoft That's the saddest part! Considering that I only used Windows because I didn't want to complicate my life with Linux and couldn't afford mac.

@Alt-Grrr haha. Surely! Although, I might have to Google a lot more than I usually do!

@Alt-Grrr port, homebrew and a few others have saved my sanity on my Mac.. but you nailed it with your comment. 👌🏼

@null-pointer You are on devrant .. You will not find linux complicated .. That being said... after 3 months of linux ..i felt windows was complicated..

@harish1996 I hope you're right. I'm almost sure you are.

@SISheogorath Yes, nerdy as I like it :p
Update : It's been 2 hours and I already hate my mouse. Gotta learn all the key shortcuts.

Please do not let the Linux community make you feel that need to fight to never go back to Windows.

You are not forced to choose one or the other, there are right tool for each job and personal preferences, so please go with whatever you (and only you) like the most.

This comes from a Linux user.

@Microsoft of course, you will there AS IS. ;)

Try linux deepin.

In response to @SISheogorath 's comment, I'd like to just publicly acknowledge that there's a great package manager now for Windows as of a few years called Chocolatey. I've found it to be very useful, it works great for the most part. I used it to install all of the desktop applications that I actually use so now I just need to do a 'cup all -y' every now and then and things stay up to date.

Would highly recommend, especially for bitter Linux devs forced to switch to a Windows environment for whatever reason.

Anyway, have fun with Fedora and good job not following the popularity train and going Ubuntu right off the bat! :)

Allow me to interject a moment...

@null-pointer Let me congratulate you on your life altering choice. Here is your cake!

@codeRetard I see what you did there. ;)

@null-pointer didn't really know your taste so I went ahead and got you a Lemon-Syrup loaf cake, hope you like it.

@codeRetard Haha. At least I love the idea of baking my own cake for now. Hope too many 'ingredients' won't push me away from my perfect slice.

@null-pointer you know that old saying?
some people like to have their cake, and eat it too!

If you don't like it, try distro/DE/WM hopping a bit. I went from Ubuntu with unity to mint (didn't like it) then arch with gnome then Manjaro with gnome because arch was acting strange and now I'm back on arch learning and configuring i3 with gnome as backup.

@Florens Seems to me like you have intentionally been all the wrong places, Linux-wise that is! settle down and try Fedora or OpenSUSE next. it's always much better to learn something in depth rather than hopping around every so often.

@codeRetard Definitely agree with you on this one. Looking for some smooth transition right now. Hopping isn't an option when you're new.

@null-pointer Don't mean to burst your bubble, but unless you have Linux approved hardware (All Intel chips) and some menial use cases from you Linux box, Fedora can be anything but smooth transition. Not so much the case for OpenSUSE though. but the important thing is, with either one you get right to business and if you cut your teeth with Fedora, you can basically tackle all other distros. The so called pretty Linux distros are only there to interest the people sitting on the fence about migrating to the world of Linux, or the senile who want dependable sub set of tasks. Other than that they are an abomination which should be avoided at all costs.

Dude welcome, Fedora user here, good choice, is nice to have always the latest stuff, about the keyboard bindings, after you get ahold of gnome (which I assume you have) u may want to try something like i3 (windows manager) you won't need your mouse anymore 😝😝

@jpichardo Definitely.

@null-pointer yeah I used the minimal install and with i3 the machine is perfect