r/linux4noobs

I have a laptop that I use to browse the internet, read PDFs, Spotify and some light videogames. I was curious about using Linux for a while and since everyone was saying that your PC runs better and faster I decided to give it a go.

Maybe it is because I installed Mint but for the moment I don't see what you need to learn to do. Everything is fine, installing software is very easy with the manager and it doesn't seem like I need to do some hacker thing to use the laptop. My buetooth headphones that I guess designed for windows works with no problems at all

If tomorrow I could play videogames in Linux as good as in windows I'd quickly uninstall windows from my main pc. I'm happy with the performance increase, it is quite noticeable

As a part of my Operating Systems class we had to install Linux and after trying out Xubuntu on my laptop (AMD Ryzen 3 3250U, 6GB RAM) using Windows 11 felt rather slow and laggy to the point where I'm thinking about fully switching over to Xubuntu. I'm currently using dual-boot on a single 256Gb NVMe drive with Linux having about 20GB of usable space so while I haven't been able to use it for any serious work I did get some basic understanding of how to use the OS.

I like the fact that everything feels very snappy with lag being almost nonexistant, I was also pleasantly surprised with the system resources rarely crossing over the 50% line, while being at around 90% on Win11.

My main question is what are some other downsides of Linux aside from not being able to natively launch .exe files or being locked to web-only version of microsoft's Office software?

Thanks for the help