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Looks like all the software is compatible!

Discord: good and easy to install through the software store

Steam: good and easy to install through the software store, extra steps needed for running some games

WPS Office: good, but needs a manual install

this writer program: good*

affinity: good*

*only has a Windows version, so must be run through wine, which some programs don't like. Also, it needs to be installed manually.

Seems like you should be able to get this set up pretty quickly!

@ubuntu-official is a good choice for a 1st distro

I'm glad that @windows11-official is bringing us so many new linux users, so thx buddy!

Quick tip: Copy off ANY files you want to keep to an external drive/secondary hard drive/cloud storage solution, and disconnect that device before installing Ubuntu. This will prevent accidental file deletion.

Setting up my ubuntu machine again- lets see if we can get all the programs i use on windows to run. I got a notification that Microsoft is dropping support for windows 10 in 2025, and windows 11 makes it way harder to fuck with os settings than it is on windows 10. And my long term goal is to divorce myself completely from the use of Google and Microsoft products.

Heres my daily use software, that I'll hopefully get to stick with in linux:

- WPS office suite

- Affinity Design and Affinity Publisher

-Cold Turkey Writer

-Discord

-Steam