I use Linux as my daily driver. This page isn’t a guide or a manifesto - it’s just what works well for me.
It took a long time for me to move to Linux, but untested hotfixes, intrusive telemetry, ads, and unwanted software appearing in the Start Menu eventually made the decision for me. With Windows, you are the product.
Linux has been a breath of fresh air: fewer surprises, better tooling, and the feeling that the system works with me rather than against me.
It wasn't all plain sailing at the start. Learning a new way of doing things took time and there were a few missteps, like changing the permissions on the entire disk instead of a specific folder when playing in the terminal.
Gaming in the early days was, unlike today, very hit-and-miss, and there were a lot of my games I just couldn't play. Fortunately I was mostly playing World of Warcraft back then and there was plenty of help online to get it working. But again, it wasn't perfect. Large raids would have WoW running at single figure FPS.
Then DXVK arrived and that all changed and almost overnight I was actually getting acceptable FPS in high population areas, though still not as good as on Windows. These days I could put a Windows user on my PC, load up a game, and most of them would be none the wiser.