I’ve installed Mint on a few MacBooks. Was in need of a better laptop, got a decent deal on a Costco-special Lenovo IdeaPad and immediately put Mint on it. The process took twice as long as with the Macs and because this laptop has a Copilot key, I imagined that there was something akin to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind going on inside with the “AI” trying to hide and dodge deletion.
I thought about dual booting on my PC when I built it like a year ago, but after reading about pros and cons a little bit I just said nah I’m good, let’s do this, Linux. When my wife recently got a used computer from her sister, they didn’t give us the login password, so instead of calling them and asking I just put my flash drive in there and said bye bye windows. My favorite part about installing Linux is how fast it is. I don’t have to sit and click through a 20-step installation wizard where every step takes 20 minutes to do whatever it’s doing.
I’m dualbooting Linux. Mostly because I’m in the process of switching distros and I’ve been dragging my feet for a long time.
Make the plunge my friend, u could dual lot TWO Linuxi instead ;)
That’s what I’m saying, I’m dualbooting Ubuntu and Debian! I’ve been Windows-free for years.
Oh my bad, swag!! I’m diving head first now, and have been reading a bit about BSD? I’ve heard cool things but also some… weird(?) things too, do u know anything about that?
My windows install is safely on a drive nicknamed “STORAGE”.
I use arch, btw.
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How do I run my WMR kit on Linux to play modded Beat Saber? I can mod beat saber on Linux but I prefer to sweat in my WMR kit instead of my expensive Index.
Ok thats funny
I think most other linux distros get the same treatment to be fair. I know I usually just nuke / and use the old /home
I back up /etc as well.
I’m too worried about config misconfigs to do that, I usually have a clean slate for /etc and then delete per user configs as I hit snags.
1: Back up /etc.
2: Install your fresh distro.
3: Backup the fresh distro’s new /etc.
4: Start targeted migration of /etc subfolders into the new /etc, testing things as you go. Only copy things you actually want to use the old configs for – it’s probably actually not that many, so it shouldn’t take too long.
5: After each migrated subfolder, if it causes an issue, delete the subfolder and replace it with the one from the new distro’s fresh backup.
Also, do the same with
/home/user/.config/to do targeted copying of configuration files from there. Always keep the fresh distro’s version available as a backup copy in case some version incompatibility or something causes errors. (It usually doesn’t, though.)Between those two, it’s amazing how painless distro migration can be. “Oh no, now I have to redo all my config choices!” turns into, “Oh, look, it’s back just the way I like it again, like magic.”
I don’t copy it over the new one but I do grab things like fstab settings and other things.
Eh. When ditching W10, I did install on a separate partition; I have one piece of software that I knew would be troublesome.
Then one day I needed space, and just nuked windows. Didn’t boot it in months anyway.
I wish I didn’t have a purpose for Windows. I need to dual boot because I can’t get FL studio on my Steamdeck.
Have you tried stuff like WINE? I thought I’d heard of people using FL Studio without much issue, but I may be confusing it with another program.
I’ve done my research, and apparently Wine can run it pretty well… Until you add third part plug ins. I’m pretty new to Linux since having the steamdeck and I really want nothing to do with windows… I just really want to work on music and I’ve been learning FL for years so I don’t want to switch. I also never find anything as vast as FL with its piano roll, instruments and effects etc.
If you really want to get rid of your dual boot but need Windows, you could set up a virtual machine running Windows. You need a bit of a nicer machine to deal with the overhead, but it’s not so bad as people assume a lot of the time. As long as you don’t need the GPU for what you’re doing, I think it’s even pretty easy to give the VM direct access to the base hardware it needs, which cuts a fair bit of overhead. It may or may not get fairly technical to set up, depending on your hardware, distro, and personal luck, but it might be viable.
I don’t have a Steamdeck, but to be the linux guy of music software: you tried Reaper, yet?
Not quite. I’ve downloaded and looked at it a little, but after all the time I’ve spent learning FL, looking at a new DAW doesn’t sound fun. is there anything similar to FL that has all of the instruments, piano rolls, effects and all that good stuff? if I don’t have to touch windows for the rest of my existence I’d be great.
What is so precious on Linux that you cannot do on Windows? Dynamic Tiling? - Komorebi. TUI file manager? -Yazi. Custom themes, and bars? -Yep. Bash? -Yep (along with uutils). GPU accelerated terminal emulator? - multiple including Windows Terminal.
What you’re giving up on Linux is most professional industry standard productivity software, and many of the games real gamers actually want to play (not all crap that pirates collect). You’re giving up security by default (Arch, Gentoo and the like along with TWMs will have people storing browser passwords in the equivalent of a text file for just one example). You give up an OS that evolved to deal better without ECC memory (todays Windows is far more resilient to bitflips).
Even FOSS software runs better on Windows. VLC causing Linux to seize was just one of many examples.
So yes, I agree that for 99.9% of people, dual booting is a waste of disk space.
I gave up the dependency on TPM 2.0
This is a great example of a comment that wasted energy for no good reason at all, you could have spent it all in your industry standard productivity game instead and nothing would have changed
“real gamers” lmao
Turn that on its head.
What is so precious on Windows that you cannot do on Linux?
Sell my telemetry to the highest bidder? Give me ads in my desktop? Force AI into every request i make? Capture images of everything I do and store them against my wishes so that malware can come in and access that? You want to be the target of practically every worm/virus/botnet out there? You want what is demonstrably the worst history of security for any desktop OS with one of the most bypassed antivirus systems in existence?
What you’re giving up with Windows are a few handfulls of games with kernel-level anti-cheat that already fail to keep people from cheating. You want to play Roblox right? It’s FULL of players, you must! Fortnight? Super important titles.
Of course then you have things like Outlook that are already being replaced by Electron apps that exactly the same on linux in a browser.
So yes, I agree that for 99.9% of people, dual booting is a waste of disk space.
Right, The only people concerned about Telemetry are conspiracy theorists. The other 80% of people don’t care, and a good amount of them understand that it’s used for improving software.
What Linux advocates call ads are introductions to features and things that would benefit them, and they’re far easier to turn off than switching OSes.
Many of us have been using Windows without ever encountering a virus. -I went out of my way to get one so I could test my skills on it (only time and I’m 55).
There are far more than just ‘kernel level AC games’. We’ve seen this propaganda for years while Proton keeps realease new compatibility updates. Also, even your Linux loving LTT called ProtonDB a what? Only recently did WINE (not Proton) fix the frame timing issue that made some games unbeatable mid-game (far worse than not working).
Most people aren’t bothering with an email client these days.
Right, The only people concerned about Telemetry are conspiracy theorists.
You can call me a conspiracy theorist, I can say you’re a paid troll. That’s easy, this is a fun game.
and a good amount of them understand that it’s used for improving software.
linking a linux sucks community, SURELY that is full of nothing but good intensions and good solid facts.
What Linux advocates call ads are introductions to features and things that would benefit them,
I cannot wait to start benefitting from “7 tips for handling hot summer hikes”, or “Get Skype”, or “Rousey more than ‘most dominate athelete’”
Many of us have been using Windows without ever encountering a virus.
Most of us, of working age in offices the early 00’s have numerous zero day worms. There was no protection.
We’ve seen this propaganda f
The gall of you to call out propaganda, while pointing to a windows propaganda site, while cherry-picking and spilling out bald-faced lies in your post.
Proton keeps realease new compatibility updates.
Tell me, do you want improving software or not, you’re giving out some real mixed signals.
Only recently did WINE (not Proton) fix the frame timing issue that made some games unbeatable mid-game (far worse than not working).
Wine also makes numerous games run at a higher frame rate than windows. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47507150
The real difference is not only is stuff running faster, they’ll keep releasing updates for shit that gets broken, that’s part of understanding how to improve software.
Most people aren’t bothering with an email client these days.
55 and already retired? Man that must be nice.
I have’t seen a company in 50 years that doesn’t use email. And, wasn’t the use of corporate software that doesn’t run in linux one of your primary propaganda targets? You really need to make up your mind on that one.
The linux sucks community is his own, and he instantly bans anyone that even posts neutral comments. You have to agree, or you’re not on there. I’m not exactly sure if he’s just a persistent troll or if he has some weird reason to hate linux this much. What’s obvious is, he’s not interested in discussion.
sounds like he’s just windows marketing :)
linking a linux sucks community, SURELY that is full of nothing but good intensions and good solid facts.
I’m proud to be banned from that community, lol.
Don’t know what this guy’s problem is, really. Did Linux kill his parents? Did Linux impregnate his wife?
Did Linux impregnate his wife?
That’s not due until the next Wayland update…
What is so precious on Linux that you cannot do on Windows?
Browsing the internet without having my activity reported to Microsoft.
The ‘activity’ makes the OS better by reporting trouble areas to the developers. -Specifically, what’s going wrong for you. Microsoft has been in business for decades and has more than earned trust.
Conspiracy theories don’t make a point.
Microsoft has been in business for decades and has more than earned trust.
They have decades of history of screwing over users, yes. All the more reason not to trust them.
Yeah, I see no examples.
> What is so precious on Linux that you cannot do on Windows?
Stay private and technologically independent.
Propaganda.
@madthumbs Have you noticed where you are, lol?
Just peek at his profile and it will all make sense.
TL;DR don’t feed the troll.
@orlyowl The guy be like
what does it matter?
how about four booting instead?
I switched to Linux the first time couple of months ago. Thinking I would switch between Linux and Windows until I get evertything working under Linux. But after installing Linux, I never went back to windows xD but it’s still installed
The last winblows in this house is on (one of three) its own disk on a t440p, just in case a piece of shit needs a firmware update, and I dread that moment, last time I needed it was an 8BitDo , now in the hands of my kiddo on Bazzite (thank Athena I now have a steam controller). Not sure what I’m saying other than let the BIOS do the switching and may you never need to boot windows again.
Dual boot is the side piece that eventually goes primary…
If you don’t respect the bootloader, you don’t get a seat at the table.
Windows modified my partition layout after a forced update. I felt violated…
There’s a chance I’d still have a windows install alongside Linux, if windows would just mind its own business.
