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So what did it take for you to go to Linux?
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When I was 13 and still watching LTT I had an extremely old dell optiplex with a 3rd or 4th gen i7 that was really starting to slow down on Windows; I just thought it was old hardware (partially true) but then LTT released a video about Pop_OS and was like "oo what's Linux" and just deleted Windows and installed it. Never looked back! Everything was super snappy and I was really shocked.
Funny that you mention the Pop_OS video, it was also my first distro after buying a laptop with a broken windows 8 install. I immediately switched to Linux Mint the next day :P