Me with "iron" which I specifically learned to pronounce the way I pronounced it because I thought the correct was was just another way the southerners living around me were pronouncing it wrong 💀

and also salmon

I just add the exe to steam as a non-steam game and run it with proton. I use protontricks for any missing dependencies but I think that's only happened to me twice so far

Hell yeah GOOD LUCK!!! Always feel free to reach out

Yeah I will retract my statement of using CachyOS. I would say it's a good stable option, but it's an actual linux-like experience where you will use the terminal. For users who are more used to windows and want a similar experience, I agree with using Mint 100%

Leaving this comment just in case you run into issues with Windows locking your drives so that Linux can't access them. That happened to me so if it happens to you, reach out and I'll try to help 🫡

I'm also curious what's keeping you on Windows for the art stuff?

Good luck! Which distro are you going with?

solution. 9 times out of 10, the solution is just pasting something into the terminal. What I mean by "mentality" is that if there is a problem, you don't have to just live with it like you would on Windows. You look up the issue or look up a feature you want, and you can just have it

I'd give it anywhere from a 4 to a 6. The hard part is the mentality in my opinion. Installation is easy (depending on the distro), you'll learn the commands you use most over time, and troubleshooting can be a pain. The thing with troubleshooting is that, if you search your issue, you'll find a

Feel free to reach out if you run into any issues or just want someone to help you get set up 🫡

Anyways, TL;DR, my recommendation is CachyOS with the Plasma desktop environment. It just works and is easily highly customizable

Arch itself is a pain to install, CachyOS is easy. As for gaming stuff, the welcome menu has a button to download all the gaming dependencies at once (likely not even necessary if you're just using Proton through steam but I'm not sure).

Cachy is also focused on performance and can make good use of your hardware. It also has some customized versions of software that squeaks out a bit more performance as well. Arch is just simply faster than Debian-based distros like Ubuntu or Mint.

Want to install a program? Type "paru <app name>" in the terminal and then you'll be shown results. Pick the one you want and you're done. Want to uninstall a program? "paru -R <app name>" It's that simple.

Everything just worked, no week-long setup. You have access to AUR which allows you to easily install pretty much any known program in the terminal (I may be exaggerating but I haven't found a program yet that I couldn't install through AUR)