not sure of what it take to convert all personal data, pictures, movies, games, files etc to a new OS like Linux
Mostly it would take nothing at all, it would just work, specially when considering data, pictures, files, you can easily test this, just download the linux mint iso, burn it to a pen drive, boot from it and try and work with your stuff.
it's a fully featured desktop system, comes with internet browser, office software, image viewers, image editors, and a fuck ton of other stuff
And it should already mount your hard drive(s)/partitions automatically, linux works pretty seamlessly with NTFS (microsoft's file system)
Games take a bit more effort, but if we are talking steam here, it does the biggest brunt of the heavy lifting for you, they made it pretty seamless to use, I'm yet to find a made for windows game I can't play at all.
In fact there are a bunch of cases where you have an older game made for windows that has stopped working for windows 10+ but will run flawlessly using compatibility layers and whatnot on Linux
Seriously, unless you use some very highly specialized software that only runs on windows, there's absolutely no reason to not make the switch.
I'm not saying there won't be issues, but if there are, I guarantee you they can be worked around, and it's definitely worth it to dump the company founded by Bill Gates
Mostly it would take nothing at all, it would just work, specially when considering data, pictures, files, you can easily test this, just download the linux mint iso, burn it to a pen drive, boot from it and try and work with your stuff.
it's a fully featured desktop system, comes with internet browser, office software, image viewers, image editors, and a fuck ton of other stuff
And it should already mount your hard drive(s)/partitions automatically, linux works pretty seamlessly with NTFS (microsoft's file system)
Games take a bit more effort, but if we are talking steam here, it does the biggest brunt of the heavy lifting for you, they made it pretty seamless to use, I'm yet to find a made for windows game I can't play at all.
In fact there are a bunch of cases where you have an older game made for windows that has stopped working for windows 10+ but will run flawlessly using compatibility layers and whatnot on Linux
Seriously, unless you use some very highly specialized software that only runs on windows, there's absolutely no reason to not make the switch.
I'm not saying there won't be issues, but if there are, I guarantee you they can be worked around, and it's definitely worth it to dump the company founded by Bill Gates