My journey on switching to linux mint as a windows 10 user. First ever fediverse post. (opens in new tab)

Hello all. I have been lurking on lemmy.ml [ for a while and learning about the fediverse and recently decided to jump in. I wanted to come here to share my story on switching to linux, effectively switching my mindset in the process. TL;DR: Around october 2025 I was going to update a system to windows 11 and opened a can of worms regarding the privacy eroding, invasive nature of it. Freaked me out for a while thanks to big techs horrible recommendation systems only making this worse but grad...