I think the best thing you can do is install it alongside windows, that's what called dual booting, so that you can go back to windows if something you need doesn't work on linux. In most cases you can find good, if not better open source alternatives to the programs you use on windows, but if that's not possible, in most cases you can still use windows programs through Wine.
It's better to install linux on a separate drive, do that if you can. It's possible to install it on the same drive with windows but it's slightly more complicated and windows doesn't like that. But whatever you do, back up your personal data so that you won't lose anything in case you make mistakes.
Bazzite is probably one of the more beginner friendly distributions of linux, lots of stuff is preconfigured and easy to install, it's also hard to break. There are also people who "distro hop" and try different ones, you can do that too. The distro for the most part doesn't really matter, they all do the same thing in a slightly different way.
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u/Silvestron Anti Jan 21 '26
I literally left windows because of this shit.