Published May 15, 2026, 12:30 PM EDT After a 7-year corporate stint, Tanveer found his love for writing and tech too much to resist. An MBA in Marketing and the owner of a PC building business, he writes on PC hardware, technology, and Windows. When not scouring the web for ideas, he can be found building PCs, watching anime, or playing Smash Karts on his RTX 3080 (sigh). I have always been a Windows guy ever since I started using Windows 98 back in 2000. I didn't even know Linux was a thing when I was a kid. Even when I found out about gaming on Linux, its reputation for being too technical and niche kept me safely in the arms of Microsoft's walled garden. Fast-forward to 2026, and I was finally looking for a replacement for Windows 10. I didn't want to jump to Windows 11 , so I began the search for a Linux distro that I could use every day. I liked a lot of things about Bazzite, but it only got me to around 80–90% of the way.…