It depends on the user. If you’ll install GNU/Linux distribution as a nooby, choose some easy distribution - most probably it will install a lot of bloatware, and possibly could be unstable… But if you’ll go into details and learn the basic you could install some better distro, which you will install manually, and you will install all you need, no bloat. If you will, here are the perks:

• Stability (it also depends on your hardware… NVIDIA for example is pretty bad, but Intel or AMD is great. Must be better stability than on Windows, if you’ll not fk up)
• Performance (since you installed everything by yourself, and you will have no bloat, telemetry and etc. you will run the OS with great performance)
• Security (vulns on big distros are getting fixed fastly, and there are less vulns than on Windows, also less viruses you could get on a desktop)
• Customizability (you could change anything you want, desktop environment, sometimes init system, pretty much anything but it depends on a distro and your skills)

Me, as a… I would say half a professional GNU/Linux user, would recommend Void Linux for half-experienced or experienced user, because I like the runit init system and the stability, even though it’s rolling model.

But for a newbie… I don’t know. All of them I tried - they had problems. So it’s better to either endure, either start from a not-so-hard distro like Void Linux.

EDIT: oh yeah… I read a lot of comments here and I would also add that the system is free, open-source (with Linux-libre), and it’s also not so bad at gaming since Steam made Proton, a fork of Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator). I also game sometimes and I use Lutris… Don’t know if there any other cooler alternative heh.

Gaming. I know Steam has done a lot for Linux gaming but most game developers focus on Windows.

Not all games run on Linux and some require extra steps. Some wont run on Linux, period. Driver supports and new features are always windows first.

Some people use other store fronts, other than Steam. It is a pain to run them on Linux. there are several launchers on Linux but they don’t work for all games and support is not consistent.

For gaming, it is still windows, not Linux or Mac OS.

Well, you actually own it for one, given Linux is an open platform, you’re generally not at some corporation’s will unlike with closed platforms like Windows or even macOS, you’re also not arbitrarily locked out of running it on hardware made before a certain date unlike with Win11; as long as the kernel supports it, it should run on your hardware, where Windows arbitrarily locks out anything older than Zen+ or Kaby Lake without a modded install medium starting with Win11, and it generally uses less resources than Windows nowadays although that varies based on configuration.

I’m glad I noticed what community this was posted in before I responded.

Number one, I get to tell people that I use Arch. I could anyway, but this way I’m not lying.

Number two, it’s not Micro$oft or Crapple.

Number three, living in my mother’s basement isn’t as cost effective as I was hoping it’d be so free helps immensely.

What finally pushed me over the edge was when I was trying to fix something in Windows and it said I couldn’t access that part of the OS. Bitch, you work for me, not the other way around. I’ve flopped back and forth between Linux and Windows for decades and just decided that anything I couldn’t do in Linux I just wouldn’t do. So far, I haven’t really encountered anything. With how much of my average computing is done in a browser these days, Firefox doesn’t really care which OS it’s running on.

I like forward slashes

It’s all about the penguins

Vim does care, but it doesn’t want to hurt your feelings.

Vi also cares, but not about feelings.

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Oh, now this is a shitpost.

After this last windows 10 update, now windows hangs on cryptographic service. There’s no fix for this shit and no hope to fixing my computer… My HDD…but I restart boot my default OS Linux on its own SSD from Grub. If I want to go suffer I reboot into the piece of shit windows system. So that’s the appeal of Linux.

It’s free. What is vim?

It’s free and runs stuff good.

Linux does not care if the user is still in the vim age or has already progressed to good editors.