Hi HN,
Should I upgrade my development and business workstation from Windows 10 to Linux (instead of upgrading to Windows 11)?
I'm extremely intimidated in taking the leap. I'm very familiar with Linux without a UI, and feel very comfortable with managing linux servers. I setup and run a cluster of RHEL servers for a private-cloud OpenStack deployment (kvm hypervisor). Familiar with apache web servers, and I run my own Asterisk PBX phone system, and have in the past done my own email server. Networking, iptables, etc.
But I've never used Linux in a desktop UI environment. Ever. Always been an MS Windows guy. But Windows 11?
I think my biggest fear are driver issues and having to convert a ton of files over to new formats for things I use to run my business. (Lots of MS Excel files for example). I use Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel) and Microsoft Visual Studio (F# Development) heavily. Excel is my biggest worry. And fighting with driver issues.
I'm familiar mostly with RHEL (CentOS, and I guess now "Rocky Linux").
Anyone here convert from Windows to Linux? What kind of issues did you run into? Should I do it?
Perhaps most importantly: Which Linux distro should I choose, and which desktop environment?
-AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core 3.50 GHz
-Aorus X399 XTreme EATX TR4
-128GB RAM
-NVIDEO GeForce RTX 2080 (Gigabyte)
-(Two) 1TB NVMe Samsung SSD 970
Should I upgrade my development and business workstation from Windows 10 to Linux (instead of upgrading to Windows 11)?
I'm extremely intimidated in taking the leap. I'm very familiar with Linux without a UI, and feel very comfortable with managing linux servers. I setup and run a cluster of RHEL servers for a private-cloud OpenStack deployment (kvm hypervisor). Familiar with apache web servers, and I run my own Asterisk PBX phone system, and have in the past done my own email server. Networking, iptables, etc.
But I've never used Linux in a desktop UI environment. Ever. Always been an MS Windows guy. But Windows 11?
I think my biggest fear are driver issues and having to convert a ton of files over to new formats for things I use to run my business. (Lots of MS Excel files for example). I use Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel) and Microsoft Visual Studio (F# Development) heavily. Excel is my biggest worry. And fighting with driver issues.
I'm familiar mostly with RHEL (CentOS, and I guess now "Rocky Linux").
Anyone here convert from Windows to Linux? What kind of issues did you run into? Should I do it?
Perhaps most importantly: Which Linux distro should I choose, and which desktop environment?
-AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X 16-Core 3.50 GHz
-Aorus X399 XTreme EATX TR4
-128GB RAM
-NVIDEO GeForce RTX 2080 (Gigabyte)
-(Two) 1TB NVMe Samsung SSD 970