Hey man, best wishes on making the move from Windows. I am also very slowly transitioning to the Ubuntu/Debian world ( more specifically, KDE Neon )
The one thing that has saved my butt is virtualbox and how well it runs Windows 7. The virtualbox extension pack ( make sure you download the right version of it ) is essential for enabling things like USB bridging from the host computer to the VM. The only thing virtualbox will never do properly is 3d graphics acceleration, but we have pretty amazing gaming support from Steam these days on the Linux platform.
Once you get the hang of dealing with Ubuntu or one of it's many clones, you'll feel like a kid in the candy store again because of all the freedom it provides. It will remind you of Windows 98 or Windows 2000 - freedom to do anything, up to and including breaking your operating system :)
You touched on one big thing. Linux on desktop makes up of ~1% of the internet's users, so support for 'that linux port' goes to the back of the bus.. and almost everything we use on linux was created for free by hobbyists. The best way i've found to support the linux ecosystem is to send 'thank you' emails to the developers of software i use, and also concise bug reports. Sometimes i also donate.
If you want to see linux go places, i suggest you do the same.
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Hey man, best wishes on making the move from Windows. I am also very slowly transitioning to the Ubuntu/Debian world ( more specifically, KDE Neon )
The one thing that has saved my butt is virtualbox and how well it runs Windows 7. The virtualbox extension pack ( make sure you download the right version of it ) is essential for enabling things like USB bridging from the host computer to the VM. The only thing virtualbox will never do properly is 3d graphics acceleration, but we have pretty amazing gaming support from Steam these days on the Linux platform.
Once you get the hang of dealing with Ubuntu or one of it's many clones, you'll feel like a kid in the candy store again because of all the freedom it provides. It will remind you of Windows 98 or Windows 2000 - freedom to do anything, up to and including breaking your operating system :)
You touched on one big thing. Linux on desktop makes up of ~1% of the internet's users, so support for 'that linux port' goes to the back of the bus.. and almost everything we use on linux was created for free by hobbyists. The best way i've found to support the linux ecosystem is to send 'thank you' emails to the developers of software i use, and also concise bug reports. Sometimes i also donate.
If you want to see linux go places, i suggest you do the same.