If you do want to install Linux, #1 thing you must do is BACKUP YOUR DATA. On the cloud, in a USB drive, an external SSD, etc. backup your data!

Linux will definitely be a breath of fresh air. I recently switched and I enjoy not being begged to use a Microsoft account, Office, Bing, CoPilot, and especially OneDrive. Linux is also super customisable, you can easily get icon packs and themes without faffing about with sketchy programs. Also, depending on the hardware, you might also get some performance improvements.

99% of things, for me, work on Linux. If your games run with the Steam Deck they should run fine with most distributions. The 1% of the time when something does not work includes OBS being stuttery due to driver issues (I had to go hunting for that, but it works fine now), but other than that Linux has been pretty smooth sailing.

I did not know that, interesting. Modern Edge is based on Chromium too, so there’s two I guess.

Would it not be Edge, MIcrosoft’s own browser? You have their Bing search results too…

But when you grow a new potato, it won’t be the same potato…right?

That seems like a good idea. Thanks! Spying on your enemies…

I don’t want to be that guy, but ‘s is for possession, or when it is short for “is”, like what’s or how’s being what is and how is. Just a plain s for plural, never ‘s. I don’t get how so many people get this wrong, it’s not that hard.