Time for Change, linux?

LewisGaming said:

I'm an engineering student and play steam and "downloaded" games occasionally I am NOT a full on computer wiz.

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Do you use any software for you class?
As far as games if they are made for windows then not so much not, so easily, and there is software that will software that can be used to run Windows based software in Linux.

If you have not tried Linux before I will suggest that you try it before you install it to you HDD as a primary OS. A lot of people have discovered that it is not what they believe it to be.

As far as secure yes you can still get virus and malware just not to the extent that Windows and Macs do.

Performance will depend on RAM amount and Processor.

Linux Mint is one that I have used for a while and have found it easy to use and navigate.

my two cents worth on Linux.
I have tried 3 or 4 times in the past 10 years to go to Linux.
and every time, after a few weeks of persevering, I go back to Windows. The reasons are always drivers and compatibility.
for example, the driver issues have been wireless adapters and printers, with the printer one taking 4 hours to resolve, which just drove me nuts and should not be so difficult in this day and age.
the compatibility issue is with Office, in particular Excel. I use Excel a lot, have heaps of formulas and VBA macros. Windows Excel has something in tyhe order of 400 formulas, OpenOffice, LibreOffice or whatever I used in Linux only supported 200'ish - so not even close enough to consider in my books.
and this is with modern version on Linux, the last one I tried was Ubuntu LTS 14.
if Linux is going to take away MS users, and retain them, they aren't even in the ball park for this user.

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