And people wonder why I ditched Windows. When the next Ryzen CPUs come out I'll probably also ditch Intel. 2019 - the year of change for me.,(reply>), @abcmole Cool, I used to run Mint. It was mostly back when Ubuntu was doing the Unity desktop nonsense. Mint's great. It doesn't need a lot of maintenance and most things just work without having to write config files or compile source code.,(reply>), @gwgux It's the same for me, my HDD died so I bought an SSD and switched to Mint, and I'm glad I did.  I kept procrastinating, afraid I'd mess something up. <br><br><br><br>Eventually I'm going to add another HDD and reinstall Windows 7 for playing old games on DVD and archive it for offline use.,(reply>), @abcmole Yes. Manjaro on the desktop, Pop!_OS on the laptop (couldn't get Manjaro to boot on the laptop).<br><br><br>I may go the Windows VM with the GPU pass through after the hardware upgrades for some games, but we'll see. Proton/Lutris and the growing number of Linux native games have me covered for gaming for now. Also all the other things I do have already been covered in Linux for many years now (some I ran out of Linux VMs) so it was really only a matter of time for me.<br><br><br>After the last Windows crash I had a couple weeks ago (hit both my computers on the same weekend) alongside the numerous bugs that updates introduce and numerous security bugs being found all the time, I had finally had enough of it and ditched Windows on my home computers. I'm used to running Linux systems (have been off and on since 2001 and run Linux servers at work) so it's pretty natural to me.<br><br><br>It was really gaming that held me back and the 'conveniently' timed crash was the final push to make stop being lazy and make the jump.,(reply>), Did you switch to Linux?