Windows 8.1/10 has annoyed me enough for me to wipe the hard drive and do a fresh install of Ubunto 15.04. I'm wanting to challenge myself and make Linux work for me.
Reality struck when only 1 of my 10 steam games worked natively, so Play on Linux is already installed. I've not installed any games through it yet but I hope to be able to keep playing Skyrim and maybe I'll be able to leave windows behind.
There is something satisfying about installing Clementine & Mixx via the terminal but that is as far as my adventure has got. I'm not quite ready to sign up for 1 year of Linux but who knows how long Ubunto will keep me interested but not pissed off :-)
I realize you have already installed it.. but the best advice I know is to create a separate hard disk partition for /home . That way when you need to update to a newer version in the future, you can install the new version to the partition holding / and all your files settings and games will remain intact on /home.
As for the rest, start breaking stuff! Linux has awesome tools of troubleshooting, thus if you stick with it and learn them along the way, you will slowly become immune to head aches. No more "Stuff broke without reason" type errors. With linux you can learn why stuff happens, and how to fix it.
It seems successful, the only thing that has thrown me is that now I am back to "just" computer in files window. The HDD i labelled Data has been swallowed up by computer!
Yes, Linux doesn't have drives as windows does, it has one single filesystem, and then you mount the "drives" in particular folders. Even the disks/partitions you see in file manager are simply mounted in a folder when you click on them. Partitions disappear from the list when they are added to /etc/fstab, at which point the file manager assumes they are internal.
If you want to know which partitions are mounted, which folders they are mounted in as well as how much disk space you have left on each, run