Switched to Garuda Linux a month or so ago, won't be looking back.
Sure, I got a Steam Deck a few years ago, and switched away from proprietary software to open source at the same time, so the switch was much easier, but in the end the OS change only took a few days of effort.
Changing software is a lot more painful than changing an OS, so make the FOSS switch first and you will find the Linux change a lot more inviting.
With recent updates you might not even need to. Latest Nvidia driver seems to have brought some features that help with compatibility. I've not tested enough, yet but it already runs a lot smoother.
That's a good thing, but I'm not holding my breath, I'm definitely one of the few people who can justify an upgrade and a second PC anyway because of blender rendering so I'm going to go full AMD/Radeon this next build when I do it and it will hopefully be an uber Linux machine. I did that thing of pretty much copy-pasting someone else's rig online with a few tweaks because they uploaded benchmarks so that should be great when I get the money.
That's totally fine imho. Just saying, if you want Nvidia(and I did cuz I had issues with AMD) it's slowly becoming more of an option. Since some DE like KDE want to move to Wayland full time this is coming in at the right time. I did not even notice any framedrops which is huge, suspending actually working now(might have a bit before, have tried that over a year ago and it didn't) and it's buttery smooth.
Linux it is then, make sure to build your next PCs around that and check for compatibility.
Switched to Garuda Linux a month or so ago, won't be looking back.
Sure, I got a Steam Deck a few years ago, and switched away from proprietary software to open source at the same time, so the switch was much easier, but in the end the OS change only took a few days of effort.
Changing software is a lot more painful than changing an OS, so make the FOSS switch first and you will find the Linux change a lot more inviting.
Looking at Proxmox as a level 1 hypervisor and running Win 10 insolated from any network access for games and Mint with Librewolf for the web.
I don't care for online gaming anymore so that will work for me.
With recent updates you might not even need to. Latest Nvidia driver seems to have brought some features that help with compatibility. I've not tested enough, yet but it already runs a lot smoother.
That's a good thing, but I'm not holding my breath, I'm definitely one of the few people who can justify an upgrade and a second PC anyway because of blender rendering so I'm going to go full AMD/Radeon this next build when I do it and it will hopefully be an uber Linux machine. I did that thing of pretty much copy-pasting someone else's rig online with a few tweaks because they uploaded benchmarks so that should be great when I get the money.
That's totally fine imho. Just saying, if you want Nvidia(and I did cuz I had issues with AMD) it's slowly becoming more of an option. Since some DE like KDE want to move to Wayland full time this is coming in at the right time. I did not even notice any framedrops which is huge, suspending actually working now(might have a bit before, have tried that over a year ago and it didn't) and it's buttery smooth.