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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/geniekid on 2025-06-02 17:21:21+00:00.

It's been two weeks (3 weekends) since I installed Fedora on my main machine at home. I made a post about my initial thoughts/motivations here and a near dealbreaker (VPN) here. This will probably be my last post about the switch, since there isn't much more to say. Ever since I got VPN working I haven't powered on my Windows machine.

Over the last week I was able to setup my environment to handle some of my more niche use cases:

• RDP - I'm using Remmina as my RDP client. For whatever reason, the default color-depth setting isn't compatible with my setup, but after adjusting that everything works great. I like that you can intercept keyboard events so that all my complicated Ctrl+Shift style IDE commands work. This was not the case when I used Microsoft's Remote Desktop app in Windows.
• CD ripping - I'm using fre:ac. On my Windows machine, I used dBpoweramp (fre:ac has a Windows version that I either didn't know about, or didn't think was adequate when I first purchased dBpoweramp a decade ago). Both apps meet my needs - database lookup to fill in metadata tags, AccurateRip DB support, and adequate flexibility in the formatting of ripped file names.
• Music player - I'm using Fooyin. It's the closest thing to what I was using in Windows (and Android) - Foobar2000. There's a lot of flexibility in customizing the UI of the player. Other music players I tried out include Rhythmbox, Elisa, Audacious, and Deadbeef.
• Battlenet - there are a lot of instructional posts/videos online about how to get Battlenet games working in Linux. My impression is that they're all just various ways of running the Battlenet client installer through WINE/Proton, and really the only choice to make is whether to do this via Lutris, Bottles, Steam, Heroic, etc. I chose to use Steam for no other reason than I already had Steam installed. I was able to run Hearthstone and SC1 just fine.
• (GNOME) Extensions - I've been very reserved about tweaking GNOME. I've spent over three decades as a Windows user, I know that biases run deep, and I wanted to give the GNOME style an honest chance. After several days of use, the only tweak I've made is to have the Dash come up when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen.

Speaking of that last point - I've been using GNOME for a week now, after using KDE for the first week (see posts linked at the beginning for why). I really think I could live with either DE. Neither one has given me any real frustration. Both let me launch and manage apps intuitively. Both let me find and change settings adequately (the first thing I did in each was turn off mouse acceleration). I do think the GNOME installer is friendlier for less technically inclined users, but there's nothing about KDE's installer that a quick search wouldn't illuminate.

There are still three things I haven't tried yet: VR, OBS (or some equivalent for streaming/recording), and image editing. From my cursory searches, I don't anticipate any of these to be real problems, although some tweaking or workarounds may be required. In any case, I rarely dabble in any of these, and none of them are dealbreakers.

So, at the end of two weeks, I think the switch to Linux has been a success. I remain thoroughly impressed with the developers behind the Linux kernel, the Fedora distribution, the KDE/GNOME environments, the WINE/Proton layers, and just about every app that has a native Linux implementation. 2025 is my personal Year of the Linux desktop!