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Holland 🏳️‍⚧️🚩🏴

@shansterable @PurpleJillybeans Linux Mint is extremely user-friendly & using command line is not generally necessary unless you want to get very hands-on. There's others too but Mint is basically plug-&-play.

With any Linux system, sadly there will likely be some moments where you will need to do some command line stuff bc so much is just not made for Linux systems that it adds some extra steps to things. But you can even play most games on Linux now at least thru steam lol so its gettin there

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Holland 🏳️‍⚧️🚩🏴

@shansterable @PurpleJillybeans I'm not a dev or even a programmer, altho I'm somewhat savvy (i code my own website for example, humble as it is in HTML/CSS). I've been pretty close to a "typical non-dev user" on exclusively Linux for ~10 years.

I do email, games, graphic design (mostly, but its more hardware limited than software), browse web, play music, word processing, burn USB sticks & other stuff without even touching a command line :) Just as you would in windows & often more easily.

Shannon Skinner (she/her)

@itsmeholland I don't play games, so that won't be an issue for me. Thank you.

Mystery Babylon

@itsmeholland @shansterable @PurpleJillybeans Mint was what I started on, too, and I was not really very techy at the time. It had a couple of "oh crap" moments where I thought I'd messed up -- but they were fixable with some internet searching. It is a great one to try.

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