Hi all,
I wanted to share my Linux Journey as someone who's lightly dabbled in it. Overall I find myself still using Windows more because it's easier to run programs although gaming is definitely easier when using Steam/Wine.
I started with Fedora 39 when I set up my Frameworks laptop about 2 years ago. And tbh it reminded me google chrome when I tried it some years ago.
I tinkerer around with it and somehow I got cisco packet tracer installed using some github. Despite there being no official support for it which I thought was cool. Funny thing is though I completely dropped the ball and didn't write down my steps on how I did it. And haven't been able to replicate cisco packet install.
Later I bought a new hard drive for my desktop before Trump was inaugurated because I knew tarrifs or something else where about to kick me in the crotch. And you guessed it I got Fedora again! I liked it so much the first time and it's stability made it an easy pick. I ended up going with a dual boot setup with windows as my first boot option.
However as I said before getting packet tracer was not possible because I forgot the steps. Still was able to game though and do just about anything.
I decided to move into Ubuntu and download packet tracer that way...only to find out that the version on the website is actually version 22 and not the new 24. And it didn't run. Oof.
I was still able to play games on it and get other things I liked like Microsoft office for work though.
Last major thing of mention was my mechanical keyboard I got for my desktop. I decided to give them a try and boy..was it something on ubuntu. Some of the keys didn't work and I ended up having to go get my friend whonwas more knowledgeable to troubleshoot with me (mostly him) on how to make it so some of the keys were changed via a website. We ended up messing with the chmod files if I remember which helped us finally fix and allow us to use the site to change keys around.
Overall Linux is nice but there is defiantly a need to learn it from the ground up for me. But I struggle to know where to start but despite that I can do some basic things with it.
I would still recommend anyone to try it on something like oracle box as a first timer to get a feel for it before switching from windows 10 to Linux in the future if you decided too.
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