A bit ago (a month? two months?), I turned my old laptop into a Linux laptop, to great success. Honestly, the biggest challenge has been not accidentally calling Linux Mint "Lint" when mentioning it to other people. I didn't really have to do anything to have it work right out of the box off the thumb drive. Laptop runs great, no issues with the printer, heck, even the external keyboard with cool lights that a friend gave me a bit ago plugged in and worked just as well as if the laptop still had Windows.
But, that was the easy changeover. (And it probably helped that I'd already switched to LibreOffice, so the learning curve for the Officealike happened ages ago.) Now I have to make the scarier changeover. I have to switch my desktop to Linux and work out how to still play the games I like on it.
I know it's possible. I know people run SWTOR, Guild Wars 2, and FFXIV on Linux machines. Through Wine or Proton, I hope, since I don't think you can switch to the Steam version of a game you purchased straight up. It's just scary because it might actually take some fiddling, unlike the laptop switchover.
I also have all Corsair peripherals, which adds another wrinkle.
So might having a NVIDIA graphics card, and two monitors.
Basically, the desktop is a lot more complicated and I want to continue using it for a more complicated thing. But I really need to make the switch.
