I was like you and I took the plunge when W10 was given its death sentence. I watched a few tutorials on YouTube, picked a distro (Mint, it feels very familiar if you come from a windows environment) and after a few days of dual boot I got rid of Windows for good. Never looked back.

Initially there were some little hurdles with games, you can install Steam very easily (flatpaks are a godsend) but only a small selection of games are Linux-compatible by default. Then I heard about Proton, and with another flatpak installation boom all my Steam games worked, and damn well I have to add.

Then I heard about Lutris, and my Sims games that I thought I’d never get to play again now work.

Please don’t worry about not knowing what you’re doing, if you pick a distro like Mint you will not have to mess up with the terminal unless you choose to. Try running a distro on a virtual machine to see how it feels!

I’ve installed sims 2 and 3 so far and I can’t even say I’ve noticed any issue. Next stop is sims 4 so thanks for the heads-up! I can’t believe how easy it was thanks again OP!

Omgomgomgomg you absolute beautiful buttercream sponge cake thank you so much I’ve switched to Linux in March and I sorely missed playing the Sims

Superb interview! I had boulder dash on the nes as a kid, I loved playing it but never made it past the 2nd world