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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Things are MUCH better. You will still need the occasional help / web research, but at least you get a working system out of the box, with graphical desktop environment and - typically - network (even wifi) and 3d acceleration working right away. Disclaimer: Your best bet for a distribution to get started is one that includes non-GPL compatible firmware (Linux Mint I believe is best, ubuntu may also work). Also, not all graphics chipsets work quite as well out of the box. I believe right now AMD is best, however, nvidia provides drivers for linux (that "taint" the kernel), if you need that for gaming.

Steam works fine and gaming is only limited by the titles that don't run even on the proton (windows compatibility) tool. A respectable amount of titles are even released natively for Linux / SteamOS.