Package manager is your friend. Learn "whom is whom" in Linux (alsa = your sound "driver", for instance) and how to fully customize your Linux installation are what I'd call as "The Holy Trinity" of Linux. Know those, and you can call yourself a penguin.
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You want a quick how-to?
1.) Ordinarily I'd say the first step is to make a list of every app you regularly use and make sure it works in Linux (or that there's a viable alternative for Linux), but outside of CAD, Photoshop, and a few holdout games, this isn't really an issue anymore.
2.) Backup everything that matters to you.
3.) Pick a desktop environment before you pick a distro. The distro almost doesn't even matter. The most popular options are GNOME and KDE. I assume XFCE (my favorite) and Cinnamon are a distant third and fourth.
4.) Pick a beginner distro (like Mint, PopOS, Garuda, Fedora, or whatever else gets recommended in the comments) that has an edition for your preferred DE. (Just check the download section of their websites.)
5.) Grab an old thumb drive. 4GB is plenty, last I checked.
6.) Go to the website of your preferred distro. Download an ISO file.
7.) Download a program to flash the ISO onto your thumb drive. Balena Etcher is one. Run it, and flash the ISO.
8.) Shutdown your computer. On restart, spam the escape key, or maybe some of the F keys, depending on your computer. Instead of booting normally, you should get a menu.
9.) Navigate through the menus and disable secure boot and TPM. Then under boot order, move the USB to the top of the list.
10.) Restart, hopefully loading the USB's live environment.
11.) Play around in the live environment before installing. Test something with sound. Maybe load a youtube video or something. Make sure everything works.
12.) Run through the installer. Reboot. Spam esc/F10/whatever and get back into the BIOS menu. Reset boot priority to boot from hard drive. Reboot.
13.) Run through the steps on whatever welcome screen you see. If not prompted, update your system first thing. You can figure out the rest from there.
Try it out the worst that can happen is you install windows when you’re over it.
I'd suggest starting with a distro that very user friendly. Pop OS was the distro that made me ditch windows completely. I could also recommend Manjaro, it's almost as user friendly but it has AUR which basically let's you install stuff from github directly if a package isn't available (For example xpadneo is basically a requirement if you use a controller with Bluetooth and it's only in github). I haven't had to open a terminal with Manjaro since the first install.
@qooqie Start with the most user friendly distro TROMjaro. Even my mom computer retarded have no problems of using it.
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You can find answer to most of the questions in google. And there are always people who are willing to help in the internets.