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  • I’ll second Linux Mint Cinnamon. My understanding is it is designed to look/function as close to Windows as possible to help people transition away from Windows.

    It was my first Linux distro migrating from Windows, and overall it’s been a fairly decent transition.

    1. Linux Mint Cinnamon
    2. About 2, maybe 3 years. Time’s a bit fuzzy.
    3. There was some, I’ll leave some tips below.
    4. Nothing specific.

    -Check out Protondb.com. It’s a website where you can search for games to see their compatibility rating with Linux OSes, along with any tinkering/troubleshooting tips other users have done.

    -Once you install Steam, go to the Settings menu, select Compatibility, and select an option for “Default compatibility tool”. This global setting means you would not have specifically select a Proton version for each game you play.

    -I found that sometimes Steam would not launch from the toolbar. I have no issues launching it from the terminal window (literally launch Terminal, type the word ‘steam’, and hit Enter)






  • Another option is to run a Powershell command like this:

    while ($true) { [System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait(“{F15}”) Start-Sleep -Seconds 300 }

    Not only does it keep your Teams status Active, it also prevents the screensaver from kicking in. This causes some wonky stuff in Citrix apps, so be sure to stop the command before you launch anything Citrix-related.