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>this will be long and I will divide it in parts (in the others I will talk about my experience on WINE, Lutris and things like that that I consider relevant)

When it comes to OS Window (mostly) and Mac have controlled almost the whole market, just like with android, getting out of the control of this monopoly is one of the most important steps if not the most important to start using completely open source, but unlike Android and iOS, changing the operating system of your pc is extremely easy, I won't say you won't miss window, especially if you play games or use very specific programs to work like Adobe's suit, you will definitely have a hard time configuring and installing everything, but do not be overwhelmed and much less fooled, using completely linux and open source on your pc is possible and much easier than it seems and I guarantee it, first believe that linux is pure terminal is a stupidity and a big lie that I also believed, most software already have graphical interface and personally I use Linux Mint that already comes with everything you need included so you do not have to use the terminal or install the most fundamental programs for different functions. However it is true that many of the guides on the internet make use of the terminal, well do not be afraid of the terminal, believe me that when you get used to using it is very comfortable and easy to use, but not always necessary.
As I said I use Linux Mint (https://linuxmint.com/), a free, lightweight and low resource distribution and designed for users who are new to Linux and the truth has proved to be very easy to use even more than window with a great level of customization and excellent aesthetics not too far from window nor too close.
Also in linux you can make use of Lutris and WINE for games and Window software but I will talk about this later.
Linux mint comes with everything you might need, an update manager, a secure software store, an office suite, a firewall, a configuration panel with everything you can configure and customize, tools for backups and an excellent tool called Timeshift that allows you to make a capture of the system to restore it in case you break something and this is incredibly useful for inexperienced users because any problem you have just return the system using this tool, includes the Firefox browser, a player, an image viewer, in short everything you may need, and of course all this can be replaced by the software you prefer.
For desktop environments is in 3 editions, XFCE edition, MATE edition and Cinnamon edition, I personally use the xfce edition which is the lightest and is excellent to revive any old pc you have, but the recommended is Cinnamon which is more powerful but has many more features making it more complete and much easier to use, I have tried all three and the truth is that all three edition are excellent and it will depend on how powerful your pc is (although the truth is that Cinnamon does not consume many resources but it is recommended for powerful computers).
My experience using Linux Mint has been wonderful, I decided to try linux for the first time more than a year ago in an old pc 2gb of ram DDR2 (a real fossil in which it ran excellent) and I liked it so much that now I don't see the possibility of using window, currently linux Mint is my main system and I don't think I'm going to change it for a long time.
Probably what scares people the most is the software, however I have found alternatives for linux to practically all the programs that I used before, besides since I had window I had already started to make the change to open source and most of this software includes versions for linux however in extreme cases you can make use of Wine, a compatibility layer for window software that so far personally has been excellent much better than I expected.
es everything easy. (although I have heard that there are many problems with nvidia hardware I have not had any hardware compatibility problems so far).

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