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Approaching the end of window 10 and have no plans on upgrading to 11.
I am trying to find alternatives to applications I regularly use before jumping ship (it is mostly a gaming focused pc) any suggestions?
There’s oculus software for my vr but don’t know what I’m going to do with that
Small update: probably going to do Linux mint as that appears to be the most beginner friendly
Update two: that's a lot of comments, and Thanks for all the info
someone got oculus software to work through wine with access to hardware a while ago and they’re working on something called Oculus Ameliorated which might be simpler to get working
Proton mail has an email and VPN together as a package.
Just to chime in, since a lot of people are recommending Thunderbird as an email client. I would rather check out Betterbird. It's just smoother with more bug fixes which has not been prioritized in Thunderbird.
Or Evolution, it's pretty neat. But they didn't look for a groupware client or Outlook alternative.
Recommend you Linux mint.
But preferably use LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) instead of Mint based on Ubuntu
Just here to recommend Zorin OS, in case Mint doesn't work out.
I would check out Pop OS instead of mint. But you can easily boot both of them from usb stick and look around and get a feeling before you choose.
I would say pop is is not the right choice right now, until they release the version with Cosmic. It is very outdated because of that.
For VR with Oculus (Quest or older?) you can use ALVR. It can be a bit fiddly but it also gets better with each release and it's been a while since I tried it out. Steam Link might also work. I couldn't try that because it only works on Quest 2 and upwards and I only have a Quest 1.