@sharkalien

Fancy seeing you on the forums! So, honestly, I did write this post when I was kind of frustrated with a lot of things going wrong, but frankly a lot of it was inexperience on my end with the whole process and currently I'm feeling much better about it. It's really nice to hear your opinion on not only Linux, but Linux Mint Cinnamon, which is precisely the version I'm running right now.

I have to say by now with a clearer mind, I can honestly agree with what you've said here. For me, I already have a pretty sizable and strong PC since I initially got it a few years ago to get into high-end gaming (but come to find out I have the most fun these days with writing, drawing, and composing music), but even then, I notice Linux Mint seeming to run on my PC much easier than Windows 10 did. It used to flare up the fans over things often; not too much mind you, but enough to be noticeable, but yet with Mint, I've rarely heard them.

I don't have too terribly much to say about the settings here in Mint, I was never too in depth with settings on Windows to compare the two, although I could point out that I can't seem to disable "Middle click to paste selection" on Mint despite that being an option, lol. Ah well, I suppose it's not a bad thing really, useful in the case of some terminal things sometimes.

I am an enjoyer of FOSS myself, for example, the DAW I've used since 2017 is LMMS, a FOSS software that, funnily enough, is native to Linux (that's what the L in it stands for, after all), but I was one of the odd few who would use it on Windows. Overall a great program, and I'm happy to see there seems to be a whole software repository dedicated to FOSS or other free programs on Mint, it's been fun browsing through tons of things and seeing what there is.

The trick with Steam sounds wonderful really, though I've not had luck either time I've tried to run something through it. That being said, I've been able to run nearly all Steam programs in my library just fine, it's pretty great.

I think I won't consider moving to Windows 11 any time soon. I thought Windows 10 was fine enough for the purposes I needed it for, but now is a new chapter in my computer life, and, while yes, I did find the whole course of Linux's installation quite stressful, I think it might have been worth it in the end after all, despite my original post. Hopefully some others who happen upon this thread might consider, at the very least, Linux Mint to be worth giving a look.