I'm going to give it a shot I think, will make backups of everything including Windows and I'm not going to try and force myself into Linux. However I will set myself some goals. I really like the look of Nobara because it was developed by Glorious Egg Roll and seems to be developed purpose built for gaming rather than some neckbeards slapping together various bits and claiming it's supported as is often the case unfortunately when it comes to open source then bitching at people who have the audacity to use it for gaming as advertised.
What sold me completely on Nobara was how easy the driver setup process was because that's something that completely drove me mad. Inevitably if you're just a simple end user very easy to cock up and you won't know if it's been done correctly or not. You've installed the wrong version of Nvidia driver desktop such and such 0.0551.4123.1313 now go back again. Yes I'm exaggerating but that's still very much what it's like sometimes.
Don't get any of that with Nobara, it detects your hardware plonks you into the update and lets you download what you need which is an absolute joy. Got my USB sticks now will be giving it a shot and if there are any special steps I have to do it I'll post them. The joke is my work related stuff should work fine out of the box but we'll see what happens.
Checklist tasks when installation done
. Remove password protection ( Never liked that feature, not relevant for me )
. Get brave running with previous bookmarks and passwords
. Install DeadBeef
. Install Nvidia drivers
. Play one very common mainstream game
. Render a backed up scene in Blender cycles
. Run Godot By The Gods project and playtest
. Record by the gods gameplay in OBS
. Sail the high seas and run a game
. See if Morrowind/New Vegas will run?
I probably am going to have to consider some sort of Linux OS in the future, after complaining about how invasive into your activity so many popular things are, yet here I am still using Windows.
LOL yes I wish, I wish Linux was everything people said it was, but it really does seem like with Linux there's a massive hardware lottery. It either works brilliantly for some people or shit for others. If it worked properly I would have switched over in a heartbeat but even though I was doing a bog standard installation I ran into errors and freezing issues for no apparent reason. I'm not going to bullshit people so I'm just giving out an honest report of what happened.
The area I have open sourced like crazy is with everything else, there's fantastic support out there for third party software now that isn't reliant on Microsoft. It doesn't seem yet for certain users you can completely rid yourself of Windows and dual booting is a bit cancerous in my view.
A great example of the hardware lottery is Signal, brilliant idea, open source truly encrypted messager software for your phone. However it seems there's a specific bug with either certain version of android or perhaps hardware itself and the devs simply won't acknowledge it which leads to a lot of frustration especially if someone's earnest about their privacy and learning this stuff.
Some open source communities seem to have a really nasty habit of blaming the end user when it's clear the compatibility issues are there and the software isn't ready yet for mass adoption.