Welcome to the forums @xindaar, nice to meet you! 
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@xindaar Hi Ayhan! Welcome to the forums! I’ve never been to Türkiye but I’ve been thinking about riding there for a while. Which part are you from?
… and I do remember Windows 3.1! 
Did you ever play with DR-DOS?
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Welcome to the community @SuperDave106560 @xindaar Nice to meet you both.
@xindaar Based on your experience of over 30 years. I would personally recommend checking out these 5 distros:
Zorin OS: Built for Windows migrants, mimics Windows 11 layouts, gentle onboarding. Training wheels as a feature.
Linux Mint (Cinnamon): Looks and behaves like Windows if desired, hides the scary parts, nothing breaks. Productive day one.
Ubuntu: The default everyone supports. Huge community, every guide and answer assumes it, GNOME tweaked and extensions preinstalled to be more approachable. Safe, well-documented, easy to get help.
Fedora Workstation: Modern and solid, but stock or near-stock GNOME unlike Ubuntu which preloads the good ones.
Arch Linux: Last, but kept for a reason. The MS-DOS background means the terminal is an old friend, not your enemy. If you are curious about building your setup for yourself, their Wiki is THE best teacher there is. Maybe this distro isn’t your starting point, but a worthy destination for those who want to jump right in!
Also see:
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Thank you. I’m from Isparta, a city north of Antalya. Türkiye is a beautiful country, you will definitely love it here.
I have never experienced DR-DOS.. Only MS-DOS 
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Hmm, thanks for your precious recommendations. So it seems Arch Linux for me then, coz I love challenge. But I will surely try out your other suggestions as well and see which suits me more. I am more of a gamer type user who is into MMORPGs.. I hope they won’t hinder my experience in any way
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Thank you so much, glad to meet you too..
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I’m Jackfee1 an evolving new user to Linux. By new I mean about 1 year into leaving the Windows operating system to Linux (Linux Mint). I have an observation that I think the Linux development community might want to ponder … It is time to put your big boy pants on and expand beyond just the free software and start developing applications you charge for. For instance: I’m in the market for (native to my computer ) Text To Speech (TTS) software … hopefully for LibreOffice Word (Please don’t try to tell me it is available I’ve gone down that rabbit hole). I’d like it to be very much like the TTS included in the 2019 Microsoft Office Word. Just my observation but a bunch of off made the move from Windows to Linux, Your missing a chance to get paid for your efforts.
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Welcome to the community @Jackfee1, great to have you join us!
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Hi Jackfee1 
This is what you are looking for:
Microsoft Office Word
- it is, like you wanted, non-free
- According to your wishes, it also costs money
- it does exactly what you want because it is your reference software
What you need though is instructions how to install it on Linux
From Microsoft:
And no worries, I won’t send you through that TTS rabbithole, not even to the AI assisted cloud operated ones for professional use.
Be aware though that because MS-Word is closed-source (=non-free) , the community is very limited in what it can do for you in case of any Word-related bugs, so you are then completely dependent on Microsofts willingness to help you out.
Alternatively you can make use of online AI for generating text to speech (like almost everyone on youtube does nowadays)
See below.
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Greetings DavidP, a.k.a. @SuperDave106560. Also a welcome to @xindaar and @Jackfee1 . I see a few of the members have already given you some helpful ideas. Let us know if these are useful and if you have other things you use, or things you want to know, by all means, look around, and discuss them with us.
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Hello, I am new in Ubuntu. I want to have contact with the Linux community, because Big Tech is a yoke for humanity. This is a new branch for me. I want to share my elation for everything what tackles hypercapitalist profit-driven companies who’re exercising control and arbitrary rule about billions of people’s data, to take action. I won’t surrender without fight. Sharing ideas, learn and create with open-source, software and linux. I never thought I’d do this at some point But I want to learn to use the Terminal, coding (Python, let’s see what comes my way) and also perhaps website-building and video-editing parallel to a creative use of programs. new faces, the digital space away from the hands of dangerous companies in the hands of the people!
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Welcome to our community @Kirizu, thanks for joining us!
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Surely, you will find this post interesting.
If you want a small “well-defined” project, maybe you can look at what I offered in this post, and create your own, fully independent tool, which could be “packaged” and delivered. I am sure there are Windows “immigrants” who would likely to adopt it!
Have fun!
BTW, is “Kirizu” a Japanese or African reference?
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Welcome @Jackfee1 ! I’m also on Linux Mint with Cinnamon DE.
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Welcome @Kirizu to the community.
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I see that Eric already found some stuff for you! Welcome to the forum @Kirizu.
I’m glad you want to learn how to use the terminal effectively! Python is certainly one very good coding tool; it all depends on which areas you end up exploring; it’ll cover many of them, but there are a wealth of languages, scripting tools and numerous other things; I like to “leave it open” as I go and use what matches what I need at any given time. I’m sure you’ll find what you are interested in!
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Hi Kirizu,
Welcome to our community. Have you some problems you want to solve by writing software? It might be interesting to discuss what you have in mind. You can of course find a lot of projects that have free software to get you started. I hope you enjoy your experience!
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Hi Jackfee1,
Welcome aboard!
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) is free to use but if you like it you are also free to pay for it, i.e. make a donation. If more people did that, more fantastic projects would mature more quickly. Or you can contribute by helping to write documentation or extending the code base.
But some business-related FOSS also works by being free to use but you have to pay for support. So it’s free for retirees like me, but would not be if I used the software as a business. A lot of FOSS projects are built that way. And we are the happy guinea-pigs, we get to use it and then we find bugs for the developers.
For free text to speech tools try searching! E.g. I found THIS in no time at all. 
… and be careful what you wish for. 
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h.lyngaard here, from the magnificent late 80’s. Stumbled upon this community by chance, sorting out some scripts for work. Hoping to learn and possibly even assist if possible.
Started out in a regular helpdesk in 2012 - switched to SAP (Basis area. The backbone/infrastructure of all SAP applications). Switched jobs in 2023, and got thrown into the deep end with server maintenance etc. for 100+ servers running on a mix of AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise and Oracle Linux. Been learning by doing ever since.
This caught my interest, so I installed OpenSUSE at home as a WSL instance, to mess around a bit and learn even more. Recently installed Linux Mint Cinnamon on my laptop (Still running Windows on my desktop pc - I know, shame! 
)
Biggest accomplishment so far was to build a mostly automated script with minimum interaction, to patch the kernels for our SAP systems, including stopping and starting the systems etc.
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Welcome to the community @h.lyngaard
Managing 100+ servers is no small task! Especially these days when it feels like there’s a new security advisory or patch cycle every week. 
And congratulations on getting some automation in place. I know it can be a bit of a “hold your breath and hope everything comes back up” moment, so it’s always satisfying when things work!
Looking forward to exchanging ideas, learning from your experiences, and having you as part of the community.
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