Switch to Linux

Linux Mint had much of that already built in. Free.

UBUNTU

I prefer Debian

Most of the linux distros seem to gravitate to firefox. I have Mint with brave installed. There is a .deb install file for brave.

Just dual boot. That way, you still have windows lingering around if you have the need.

Or, you can always just boot linux from a thumbdrive.

Chrome itself runs on Linux.

there's also the open source version, Chromium, which doesn't track you as severely.

You have the wrong attitude, their is no perfect os. You have to hack it yourself. If you have win10 spend a lot of time removing everything you don't need. The subsystem is great, but you have to go through and remove every service you are not using.

Same with OS X, cut out all the bs, and tweak it. They are great OS's underneath, both have superior versions of unix underneath.

Linux I find great for simple tasks, its a pain in the ass to get it running like OS X or Win, even if you are using virtual machines.

In the end what ever you decide the secret is getting it to work for you, what do you use it for? then Minimize! cut out all the shit that is not needed.

Google Chrome is the only variant of Chromium that has hardware acceleration on any os. Any other web browser also wont be able to run YouTube with hardware acceleration without some hacks.

Video editing
[link to www.openshot.org (secure)]

image clone
[link to clonezilla.org (secure)]

[link to gparted.org (secure)]

email
gmail chrome extension

linux distro
[link to www.sabayon.org (secure)] (Gentoo variation)
[link to www.pclinuxos.com (secure)] (
Debian variation)

my favorite

[link to getfedora.org (secure)] (Res Hat variation)

I switched to LINUX UBUNTU A YEAR AGO. No problems at all. Using Firefox browser. I love it.

MX Linux for the win!

i agree, win10 is the best ever.
if u know how to get rid of the spy and ad ware.
then install a safe open source firewall.
and use wireshark to detect any leaks that need plugging.

That's where you're going to run into trouble, at least when it comes to Pro offerings. However, just looking it up now, Davinci Resolve is apparently available for Linux, and that will easily be your best bet for video editing. The free version will suffice for 90% of your editing needs.

Otherwise, good luck. I made the switch years ago on most of my systems and never looked back.

Mint is probably the easiest to use.

The entire Linuxsphere is incredible.

I would Youtube how to reconfigure your start up and bios to boot off a usb stick.

You can run pretty much any linux flavor off a usb .iso image of the operating system.

Good idea to create a dual boot scenario where by you can allocate a certain percentage of your hard drive space to a linux OS but still keep win10 running in the background.

Keeping win10 is a good idea until you see the full benefit of linux which is that they aren't tracking your every key stroke.

Ubuntu is an option but they are going full commercial, no thanks.

Every person who runs a certain linux distro(flavor) loves that flavor.

They're all pretty much the same until you get into the very arcane.

I suggest Mint simply because it's so easy to get your feet wet with linux.

Been using Mint for about 10 yrs with zero problems and zero malware!

Mint for me.

[link to distrowatch.com (secure)]

[link to linuxmint.com (secure)]

Good luck.

50,000 free programs to play with BTW!

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here is a great list, but if you have the time and the curiosity it is good to go through every service you are running and know what they all do,
Then you know whats going on under the hood.

Research a Linux distribution here - [link to distrowatch.com (secure)]

Read the reviews.

Pick what you like.

Most of all, have fun!

This!!!

I know I'll get roasted for saying this, but win10 is the best OS MS has ever put out. It's smooth, fast, and refined. Some basic tuning will make it even better.

And I once swore off windows for Linux.

Totally second that suggestion. I've "converted" a few people over the years, and I always start them with Mint first. Most have never switched away from it.

Stay away from Gentoo and any of the BSDs unless you WANT a serious crash course in operating system technical design. Not that it's a bad thing (I love my custom FBSD boxes), but they aren't ideal for first-time Linux users.

Yep...

thats one of the first things i do on fresh install.

Brave Browser works on Linux -- 64 bit, no 32 bit.

Instead of dualboot -- use Linux Mint, then install and use Oracle VM virtual box then install win 7 on it! It's awesome and you don't need to install any win10 spyware. Open VM on the rare times you need Win to run some program.

I've found only a very few programs force one to use Windows nowadays....Linux has been taking leaps and bounds in the software/app dept.

Mint was good, based off ubuntu, might switch back from windows soon. The computers on my boat are ubuntu.

Def would love the link to get win7.

except that wine causes huge memory leak on some apps

if you have an old win 7 laptop or desktop with the OEM code , that's needed to get a win 7 os running. Make sure you identify it as 32 or 64 bit...it matters.

do you have the code in back of one of your devices?

Nope. Don't have a machine that came with win7.

Yep. I've been through the loop trying to get win7.

I may just try to find and buy a laptop with it installed.

"Linux Lite."

[link to www.linuxliteos.com (secure)]

Thank me later.