Now i’ve been considering moving to linux. I don’t have much of a history using a computer and find it tougher to use than my phone. But I also really appreciate the foss movement. I’ve currently got an old laptop running windows 11 I think and it would prolly speed up with linux too. But I’m afraid I’d removed smth up trying to download linux, understand it or while using it. Is it worth switching and how different is it to a windows experience.

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    11 months ago

    From what I can gather distributions (distros?) are forks of the original os? Thats an assumption tho.

    Don’t use anything special here. I do connect my wireless headphones at most other than mouse and keyboard.

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      11 months ago

      Technically, Linux is just the kernel. What makes a distro different is the software they choose to install and package, and what version: some come with the latest version of kde plasma and busybox, others use versions of GNOME and the GNU core system utilities that are a few years old, etc.