I'm thinking of moving from windows to Linux. What should I expect?

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  • pop-os-rootfs

    Discontinued Unmodified, repackaged liveOS rootfs

  • Other distro you'd try is Pop_OS!: https://pop.system76.com/

  • flatpak

    Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

  • flatpaks, which are universal apps that can be installed on ANY linux system. These apps are sandboxed. You can know more about Flatpaks here

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  • AppImageKit

    Package desktop applications as AppImages that run on common Linux-based operating systems, such as RHEL, CentOS, openSUSE, SLED, Ubuntu, Fedora, debian and derivatives. Join #AppImage on irc.libera.chat

  • appimages. Appimages are similar to flatpaks, exept that they are a file you download and double click to run. Think of them as portable softwares like windows has (portable apps). They are sandboxed too. You can learn more about appimages here

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