I did last year and it has been great so far. Bottles was able to run all my important legacy windows apps, and proton has run almost every game. Heroic integrates with epic/gog and haven't had any issues there either. The biggest failure I've had is civ3, ended up having to put that in a virtual machine to play again.
Buy yourself a new SSD, swap with the windows drive and slap linux Mint on it. Worst case you can't stand it and now you have a new SSD. Best case, you're free of the trainwreck that is modern windows. Mint is one of the most windows-like distributions while still having an active forum and plenty of tech support / search results to cover issues you might run into.
It is hard to overstate how nice it is to have an OS that isn't constantly trying to steer me into ads or AI.
Seconded on Mint. Only actual distro that doesn't look like garbage.
(modern) Gnome UI is actually retarded for a desktop/laptop and KDE still looks chintzy.
I went with the other choice, Windows 10 IoT 2022 edition that has support until 2032 and none of the ads or AI. Massgrave (github.com/massgravel) to permanently activate it. Mostly because remote desktop is dog shit in linux.
My home media server is running linux, and it is set up to use RDP as I would remote into it with mstsc.
After the swap to Mint, I found the Remmina client to do the same job, still using RDP. I know there are other native linux solutions, but RDP was already set up on the server and Remmina has just kind of dropped in to replace mstsc for me.
Not a heavy use, but probably worth investigating next time you need a remote desktop client on a linux box.
Is it using hardware codecs? If not then it's useless.
On Windows I remote into my desktop from a laptop and get 60+ fps full screen even with a 10 year old Intel-graphics laptop that was $200 at the time. Every window open and DPI adjusted for the laptop.
I did last year and it has been great so far. Bottles was able to run all my important legacy windows apps, and proton has run almost every game. Heroic integrates with epic/gog and haven't had any issues there either. The biggest failure I've had is civ3, ended up having to put that in a virtual machine to play again.
Buy yourself a new SSD, swap with the windows drive and slap linux Mint on it. Worst case you can't stand it and now you have a new SSD. Best case, you're free of the trainwreck that is modern windows. Mint is one of the most windows-like distributions while still having an active forum and plenty of tech support / search results to cover issues you might run into.
It is hard to overstate how nice it is to have an OS that isn't constantly trying to steer me into ads or AI.
Seconded on Mint. Only actual distro that doesn't look like garbage.
(modern) Gnome UI is actually retarded for a desktop/laptop and KDE still looks chintzy.
I went with the other choice, Windows 10 IoT 2022 edition that has support until 2032 and none of the ads or AI. Massgrave (github.com/massgravel) to permanently activate it. Mostly because remote desktop is dog shit in linux.
My home media server is running linux, and it is set up to use RDP as I would remote into it with mstsc.
After the swap to Mint, I found the Remmina client to do the same job, still using RDP. I know there are other native linux solutions, but RDP was already set up on the server and Remmina has just kind of dropped in to replace mstsc for me.
Not a heavy use, but probably worth investigating next time you need a remote desktop client on a linux box.
Is it using hardware codecs? If not then it's useless.
On Windows I remote into my desktop from a laptop and get 60+ fps full screen even with a 10 year old Intel-graphics laptop that was $200 at the time. Every window open and DPI adjusted for the laptop.
Yes to hardware encoding, but only on wayland. I'm still on Mint 22.1, so no wayland, and no hardware acceleration for me with Remmina.