I've spent the whole day organizing the hoarder den that is my computer. One internal hard drive, and two externals amounting to a little over half a TB of data. Manually. I have a whole new respect for slow computers . I've been meaning to do this for a while. With how often I move around, and leave one, or more computers behind, I tend to copy/ paste tons of files, every few months, and make tons of unorganized "back-ups". What does any of this have to do with Ubuntu though? Well, I'm re-installing Windows. I'm taking the plunge, and doing my three-yearly reinstall. Just gotta get that fresh clean PC feeling back, you know? I'm hoping to iron out some other performance issues with a clean install, and all new drivers. I was also going to partition my main HDD and try out Ubuntu for the hell of it. I used it like 10 years ago, when I was an idiot, and liked it, but n00b'd out, and quit using it, basically.
I have a few questions about it though. I'm sure it has come a long way since I used it then, but these are some concerns, or questions I have about using it. Essentially, will I still be able to play games I own on Steam, and is ZC pretty functional? These are mainly what I'm concerned about. Do most of the big emulators run on Ubuntu? I just want to know, with some minor tweaking, can it be made to functionally do everything a Windows machine can (or more)?
I know it is really customizable, and fully open source, and I know that anything can probably be done on it, but to someone new to the OS, would I be able to easily set it up? Is there any "bloatware" I should worry about? Any programs I should get that you would recommend? Really, just any precautions, or tips would be swell. I was looking around on Toms Hardware, and a few other sites from a search, but I want to know what you guys suggest. Also sorry if this whole post sounds really dumb.
(Plus since Microsoft is allegedly breaking Windows 7 slowly to get people on Windown 10, I better learn a new OS)