Making the Switch from Windows to Linux? You're in the right place.

Hello everyone,

The first time I installed Linux was unforgettable. It felt fresh, liberating, and far more customizable than Windows—but also chaotic. My sound didn’t work, MP3 playback failed, and watching a movie was a gamble.

What truly hooked me, though, was gaming. Yes—on Linux, more than 20 years ago. Back then I had a modest PC, and running DOOM 3 on Windows was painful: endless loading times on a slow HDD, constant swapping, and stuttering gameplay. Then I tried Linux. Suddenly the same machine could load levels quickly, run smoothly, and play without the constant slowdowns. It was like magic. How could the very same game perform so much better on Linux than on Windows?

Over the years I mostly stuck with Windows, but Linux was always in the back of my mind. I wanted to switch, but gaming was still a hurdle—DOOM 3 was one of the rare titles with a native Linux executable. Eventually I built a separate work machine, and this time I ran Linux on bare metal again. To my surprise, gaming had come a long way. I remember firing up Skyrim, fully expecting a slideshow—it was a fairly modern game at the time—but instead it ran smoothly at 60+ fps without a hitch.

Since then, I’ve run all my machines on Linux. And now I want to share that journey with you—so you can take a shortcut through the wormhole into the Linux world and start gaming on it much faster than my decades of trial and error.

Personally, I don’t come from an “I hate Microsoft” background. And while many people turn to Linux for privacy, that was never my main concern either. To be honest, I don’t even get ads that match what I actually want to buy, no matter how many cookies I accept or what I share online. Having worked in the industry, I can also say this: companies collect everything—every mouse movement, every click—but most of the time they don’t even know what to do with all that data.

What I’m really saying is this: I like Linux because it’s simply a great operating system. No politics, no ideology. So let’s not drag this out any longer—let’s dive in and have some fun!