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Videos of the Steamdeck showed me how good gaming on Linux had gotten and that's when I started looking into switching.
I already hated using Windows 10 so didn't take me much convincing to look at alternatives.
I'm not a programmer or work in the I.T. field in anyway. But I have been messing around with computers since I could remember so I'm no stranger to tweaking, breaking and trying to repair things.