Shift from windows to EndeavourOS

Hi, Dear Community.
I am a blogger, and I have many websites on WordPress and Shopify, like this one:

And I want to use Endeavour OS instead of Windows. I am bored of Windows (especially with their latest Windows 11 update).
I have a simple question, as I do my work with websites, am I able to continue this in a simple way as I was doing with windows?
Is there any complexity to use this OS?
I’ll be thankful to you.

Hi and welcome to the forum @itsumairiqbal

Would all depend if the programs you use are available on Linux (or if they can be run through WINE) and if they’re not your willingness to learn alternatives.

Bit hard to answer this as it all depends on your skill level & willingness to learn new things.
I would suggest maybe trying it out in a virtual machine for a week or so and see if it is for you or not

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What tools do you use to make these? are their Linux equivalents?

No complexity but you need to be a DYI’er. Be prepared for things to break.

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Welcome to the club! I switched from Windows about a year or two ago and it’s allowed me to foster a whole new passion for computing. For what you’re doing, it sounds like you won’t really have any problems converting, as it sounds like the majority of your work is probably done in a browser. I installed XFCE and QTile when I first started. I’ve since learned some sweet keybindings and how to not break my config. Now I use i3 and I love it.

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Welcome to :enos: web based things should feel the same as they did on Windows. There will be a little learning about updates and installing programs, these are very different that on Windows. But once you do it a few times and learn it is fine

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Depends on how you add posts to your websites and how you edit it in general.

If you are a complete newbie, yes. There will be a lot of complexity, even more so on this distro, as it is based off a distro that asks its users to set up everything themselves and fix things as they break themselves. In general, if you’re a complete newbie to Linux, there will be a lot of things to learn and a lot of things to get accustomed to, even with a newbie friendly distribution. If you’re willing to spend a bit of time to get things in order, it won’t be that bad, but it will take a while.

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Going from windows to linux always requires two things.

1: A learner mindset (you gotta be ready, willing and able to learn new ways to do just about everything, because the strangest things may be done very different in linux compared to windows, and there’s no way you can adapt to it without having the right mindset, a mindset that’s willing to learn)
2: Patience. (Learning takes time. Learning also does not happen first try, so when things break you have to have the patience to learn how to fix them.)

I could say you also need time, but that’s just a matter of course for literally anything, how much time you need depends on how deeply you want to master it. If all you want to do is fire up a web browser and use it, you’ll need less than a day to achieve that; for instance. But if you wanna customize your system from the ground up using something like hyprland for your UI and tweaking your kernel settings and other system settings along with them and so on, you’re gonna need years to really master that, and you’re gonna need a few months to get in the swing of those things.

So the time you need really depends on just how deep you intend to dive.

Once the system is set up to your satisfactoin, it’ll be pretty much smooth sailing from there until you need to set it up again on a new pc or something. A lot of stuff is just ‘set it and forget it’ but the initial setup will always be painful for a new user unless they are satisfied with just the stock configuration.

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It won’t come easy at first but you will be glad you did it, and even happier to be away from MS. And in months you may realize this was one of the best decisions you made in your life.
No guts, no glory, man.

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ohh man… :heart:

it’s not really the best decision so much as it is the only available decision, unless you’d call being under constant 24/7 surveillance by microsoft an actual option.

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Thanks to all of you.
This is one of the best communities I think.
You all people really guided me in a good way.
Thanka a lot.

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there came a day in complete epiphany, and fear, where I realized that awful fact, among others --and refused to accept it. And never looked back.

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There are some that, more or less, have no choice in the matter, for one reason or another. It sucks and I hope overtime, things will get easier for everybody on Linux.

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