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Microsoft fucked their customers for the #69514026th time, will it be enough to make people switch to Linux, or do they just like being fucked? Who knows.
I downloaded this program called "Driver Easy," which scans my hardware, searches automatically for driver updates, downloads and installs them for me. If I could download a wizard that got rid of windows, installed a nice user-friendly version of linux, while keeping my old programs, files and junk... I'd do it in a heartbeat. All I want to do is play my video games from Steam, download shit to watch, browse the internet, write in Libreoffice... Can I do all those things with Linux? Can I download some install wizard to switch?
If that wizard existed, a shit ton of people would switch. It's just the idea of deleting my current OS and putting in a new one makes me thing I'm gonna brick my machine.
Those driver tools are often bundled with malware and do a poor job validating what they download is safe and correct. They are often associated with services that crawls the internet for downloads and tries to match the hardware id.
Generally, drivers are available from the motherboard or device manufacturer page. That said it's rarely the solution and for your gpu (amd or Nvidia) they already have their own tool for keeping you up to date.
But with Linux most of that is taken care of for you by either the kernel itself or your distro's maintainer.
Most games work fine on Linux and may only require small tweaks. You can check the games you're interested in playing on protondb. http://www.protondb.com/
The notable exceptions are games with aggressive anticheat software. Such as but not limited to (EA games, PubG, Fortnite, GTA5)
If you're looking for something "easy" look into Kubuntu LTS.
I can say that both versions of GTA5 on steam run without issues, though I've never played online, but the option is available.
Yeah it's the online component effected by the anticheat.
It used to work last year but they block Linux now.
Ah damn that sucks. And that for an online mode notorious for its cheaters.