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I'm just so sick of Microsoft and Google. But there's two things holding me back:

  1. I wanna play Steam games on my PC

  2. I am just an amateur hobbyist, not a tech wizard

Is there any hope for me?

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[–] XXIC3CXSTL3Z@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

If you want real gaming performance then arch all the way with archinstall. Trust, it's insanely good and you can get double of what you get on windows in terms of performance. Boot times are also insane. I have used so many distros and I can tell you that arch is king for performance.

[–] XXIC3CXSTL3Z@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

If you really wanna learn how to tinker and become tech savvy you can always try manually installing arch or get an easier distro and learn from there.

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[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Just welcome to the club. Greetings.

☺️ it's gonna be a quite a long while before the first install but thanks!

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Sure there is hope! Admitting you have a problem is the first step in tackling that problem!

Welcome to the club 😀

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