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I want to save money on my PC build as it's about £700 so far (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/nXdWqs). I'd like to know how easy/difficult it is for someone who's (practically) always used windows, to convert to linux as it would save me about £70 pounds which is a lot!

 

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Well you need to learn some (not all) terminal commands, but you don't have to be terminal master to use Linux.

You just need to get used to it, just like when you first started using Windows.

I'd recommend Ubuntu (or other flavors like Kubuntu), it's nice for starter.

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If you are wanting to use this as a gaming machine then you really need to have Windows unless you want to play no AAA games, it should also be noted that there are cheaper ways of getting Windows like from G2A.

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It's not that it's hard but rather you won't have much to do. You can pretty much forget about gaming. If you spend all of your time online then just install Ubuntu and you're done. In fact installing Ubuntu is probably simpler than installing Windows.

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It's not very hard at all if you use something like ubuntu. You can also play a lot of games either natively or through wine, but in the second case the experience may be (even significantly) worse than on windows.

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Just get Windows 10 

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It's not very hard at all if you use something like ubuntu. You can also play a lot of games either natively or through wine, but in the second case the experience may be (even significantly) worse than on windows.

From the look of his profile and posts I don't know if that is possible, I not saying he is dumb or anything I think he just lacks the prior experience. 

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You can get win license from g2a or reddit for cheaper. 15 quid

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From the look of his profile and posts I don't know if that is possible, I not saying he is dumb or anything I think he just lacks the prior experience. 

 

everyone has to start somewhere. I didn't hyave any prior experience when I tried ubuntu the first time either.

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everyone has to start somewhere. I didn't hyave any prior experience when I tried ubuntu the first time either.

I meant experience with computing in general. 

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I want to save money on my PC build as it's about £700 so far (http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/nXdWqs). I'd like to know how easy/difficult it is for someone who's (practically) always used windows, to convert to linux as it would save me about £70 pounds which is a lot!

 

Thanks, Will

If its for gaming, then Windows. Linux for programming and others.

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If you want to be able to actually use it and play games. Then get Windows 10.

 

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I meant experience with computing in general. 

 

when I tried ubuntu the first time I had been into computers for less than a year. it's just not very hard at all - it will install itself, it has a gui-based package manager (although it's a bit clunky... but it works), and comes with different uis to suit everyone. Doesn't require much maintenance either.

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If its for gaming, then Windows. Linux for programming and others.

Nah, Linux can be used for normal stuff. It depends on the distro too.

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when I tried ubuntu the first time I had been into computers for less than a year. it's just not very hard at all - it will install itself, it has a gui-based package manager (although it's a bit clunky... but it works), and comes with different uis to suit everyone. Doesn't require much maintenance either.

I personally like OpenSuse or Arch. I have dabbled in Zorin and Ubuntu with Gnome though. (I never really used the package store Gui thing, I dropped to a terminal and aptget from there. 

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Windows 10. Dual boot into Linux if you like but using it day-to-day can be quite frustrating unless you're needs are very specific.

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I personally like OpenSuse or Arch. I have dabbled in Zorin and Ubuntu with Gnome though. (I never really used the package store Gui thing, I dropped to a terminal and aptget from there. 

 

I like arch too, but that's a bit too much for a beginner :P

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I personally like OpenSuse or Arch. I have dabbled in Zorin and Ubuntu with Gnome though. (I never really used the package store Gui thing, I dropped to a terminal and aptget from there. 

OpenSUSE is awesome, but Arch isn't friendly for beginner in my opinion.

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