Solid advice

Those god damned Linux users ruined Linux...

I have been to some shady pubs and nightclubs in my life, non of them had so much violent people as a linux bugreport thread.

First rule of Arch Linux is you defintely talk about Arch Linux

Queue any discussion of Wayland/Xorg, Systemd, flatpacks, snaps, distro choice, ~~Pipewire/Pulseaudio~~ (last one is easy, Pipewire ftw), Vim/Emacs, GPL/MIT, immutability, etc..

We're not enemies as soon as a Windows user walks in. Or... Uuuugh.... A Mac user.

I have close to no exposure and experience with Linux, but I love you guys.

advice #1; never type v-i-m in succession. it summons demons.

The "RTFM" linux users.

I bust out kali linux when I need to get into weird places for my clients but usually just windows as that is most of what I have to support.

i miss you linux

I'm so glad I can mostly just ask my Linux questions to AI now instead of hoping I can find someone who will tell me how to do what I want instead of berating my choices and attitude.

Want to fuck the thread up? Just ask "What is the G.O.A.T. Distro?"

I was deep into linux once, in the 2000s, but then I got out.

And yet, the void still calls to me.

Well, in case Someone didn't Noted

I'm Use Arch, th'is the Way

This may not be the place to ask, but is there a guide you’d recommend for a lifelong windows user to try out Linux?

I’ve had a Steam Deck for a while now and love it and feel I could probably make the leap.

I have no idea why this comic in particular motivated me to finally ask.

Edit: I just want to say an incredible thank you to everyone and your advice. I was just looking for a link to a guide and ya’ll wrote them yourselves.

I think the prevailing advice of creating a virtual machine to play around in seems like a very good place to start.