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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.

I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?

There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that

Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly

Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info

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[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

AMD DRIVERS - Linux's built in drivers

Chrome - Chrome

gmail - gmail

Office 360 - Office 360 (web)

Norton - You don't need such piece of adware in Linux

Py-charm - py-charm

Star citizen - Star citizen though steam

VPN - Proton VPN (my suggestion)

Windows 10 - Fedora KDE

My suggestions if you want a smoother transition, repeated ones have Linux versions

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You need to double up your newlines :)

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you, kind stranger, I haven't noticed my formatting was messed up

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At least get clamAV setup. No OS is virus immune. And if wine is installed without proper sandboxing ...

[–] richardisaguy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

SELinux, wine (and other apps) installed via user flatpak with proper permissions configued, coupled with ufw or firewalld, secure boot enabled and an immutable system should be fine, no?

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Ya probably. Toss in flat seal just because.

Opsec is always a balancing act.