Nice to meet you also 😊

Is this your first dive into the Fediverse? Or have you been on other platforms?

I made my other account with the intention of eventually tracking down an instance to join that I feel I would be closer to in regards to community. I looked around, and did some research and concluded that blahaj.zone was for me ☺️

curtsies

Hii Maple!

Ooo top 3 tips, give me a second haha.

1. Make sure all the software you need is available on Linux, or alternatives that you can live with. In the case of alternatives, see if there is Windows versions of those apps, you can begin your transition over while still using Windows lol.

2. Hardware compatibility is still a thing, although it is much much better these days than even say 3-4yrs ago. It can definitely be worth flashing a distro ISO to a USB stick and doing some testing in a live environment. This won’t touch your system at all unless you actually install it.

3. Dual booting is always on option. However I’ve found that if I need Windows, then a W11 VM is good enough for my needs (host is currently Ubuntu 25.10, but I distrohop every few months lol). If you do dualboot, I’ve always heard keeping the drives separate instead of splitting drive space is recommended due to Windows shenanigans, but I’m not sure on this bit in particular.

And also, yes Easter was good here, I don’t really celebrate but I will enjoy the time off work haha.