Hey guys, I’m an entry-level IT professional and tech enthusiast.
I’m getting a bit sick of windows for a multitude of reasons and want to try out some Linux distros.
I use my pc for web browsing, university (which uses office 365) where I study software design, software development (vs code, visual studio, jetbrains stuff) and gaming (99% of the time via steam).
My main concerns for switching are that I’ll have a hard time with university work because we mostly use teams for video conferences and work together with word, and other office stuff. We also are required to do some virtual machine stuff where we use virtualbox.
Also I’m a bit worried that some games on uplay, epic and other platforms aren’t available anymore.
For distros I’ve been mainly looking at Manjaro, Linux Mint or plain old Ubuntu. Can you recommend anything that might fit for me or will I maybe run into any issues with my chosen three?
Edit: Thanks a lot for all the replies. I’ve read through all of them even if I didn’t reply and it was very helpful. I will test most of your suggestions in a VM before I jump into completely changing my OS. And I’ll probably try booting from a USB Drive first. What I didn’t mention is that I’ve already worked with Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS, so I’m not scared about having to use a CLI.
Use Mint. Manjaro is a joke, and Mint fixes the Ubuntu’s wrongdoings. The average UI experience is also like Windows. LibreOffice has a config that makes it almost like MicrosoftOffice called “tabbed”. I personally thinks that to set up a Virtual Box in Linux is easier than in Windows. For non-steam games you can use Lutris or Heroic for Epic, nowadays you only have unfixable problems with online multiplayer anti-cheat, Valorant, for example.
In fact, Mint adds even more bugs to the distro than Ubuntu originally has.