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I am currently up late doing anything but sleeping. Later, during the day, I will have officially taken the dive into Linux! I am very excited to do so. Does anyone have any tips, anything that a new user should know? That would be greatly appreciated.

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[-] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Watch a tutorial on the Linux file structure. Fascinating and helpful to know where things go and what they're for.

Tinker with settings via the settings interface. Make it yours.

Steam works.
Epic games works, it's just called hero.
Roblox works, it's called sober.
Don't forget to put ublock back in your Internet browser.

Most questions are answered already, search engines will get you there.

Edit... If dual booting, highly recommend a separate drive for Linux. Unplug the windows drive for setup then set the Linux drive as the primary boot drive. Grub will pick up your windows drive after you reconnect it.

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