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after I backup my Windows of course.

Your data, sorry to insist but Windows itself should be easy to download and to reinstall. Your personal files (photos, texts, passwords, and so on aka your data) not so much. Once they’re gone you can’t download a new copy. Installing Linux should go fine but there is always a real risk something goes wrong, even more so as a complete beginner.

I use it for gaming most of the time.

I don’t game much myself but the first thing I would is check if the games I like to play run on Linux.
Also, I have no idea how realistic it is to play in a virtual machine? Maybe you will have to install Linux alongside Windows in a dual boot configuration not as a virtual machine (you can search info about ‘dual booting’), but not before you have made a backup of all your data on the Windows installation (worth searching more info about that too)

Thank you :) I think I feel a bit more comfortable now.

You’re welcome.

It will feel uncomfortable for a while, that’s the point, but as long as you’re ok to accept that it’s unavoidable nut normal and that it should not last that long you should be ok ;)

• Do you have a spare computer? If yes, install Linux on it. Don’t touch your main PC for the moment. If not try Linux in a virtual machine (you can search about that).
• What version of Linux? There are plenty choice. I would suggest Linux Mint, because… it’s the one I am using (50+ years old, not a geek that switched after 35+ years only using Apple ;) and it works really well out of the box (heck everything was configured without anything to do on my part, even my Airpods that I never managed to get to work on other distributions).
• Don’t try to learn everything at once. In the end it’s just a computer that do computer stuff only with a lot more freedom and respect for the user, aka us. What do you use your Windows computer for the most? Do the same thing under Linux and see how well it goes. But…
• Be ok with the fact that you will need to change habits. Apps may be different, menus maybe differents, and also Linux is not a copy of Windows (or macOS), it’s its own thing. Habits are hard-wired into our brain and can be very difficult to change, like really. It’s not Linux’s fault. It’s not even a fault, that’s how human brain works.

Edit (I forgot the most important!): Hi and welcome ;)

Thx a lot for sharing. I don’t know the guy but he sure is very talented. It’s also one of the greatest love declaration I’ve seen in a while. And he is quite spot on on so many points!