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I liked learning through osmosis watching linux videos in bed as I fall asleep. Stuff like this
Print out a linux basics cheatsheet for whatever distro you're on.
Use and practice.
Oh and don't forget timeshift snapshots.
With your usecase you should have a smooth transition. I'll recommend you skip straight to NobaraOS since you are replacing your windows and gaming on it.
Based on fedora and made by GloriousEggroll, the maker of protonGE. It the best desktop linux experience (including gaming and laptop specific usecases as well) I've had after distrohopping for a few years.
For the love of god save yourself the headache of constantly trying to undo ubuntu's stupid decisions and just don't bother with that (unwilling to just die) common recommendation. IMO its like fighting with windows' little sibling for control over your computer. Defeats the purpose of switching to linux and gives a v. bad first impression to new users.
P.S. don't dual-boot this shit is constant, its almost like Microsoft does it on purpose 🧐 just commit and you'll have an easier time.
Since
vfio
exists, most people shouldn't need to dual boot.Exactly; if there's something on windows you "cant give up" then just spin up a VM and run it in there.
Unless you can’t pass through a GPU if you need one… or the program you are running has some VM detection that won’t let it run in a VM
Spoken like someone who has never tried it. Thats quite literally exactly what vfio mentioned above me is for.
From what I can tell, that won’t work for me… using a laptop with a dedicated Nvidia 2060 but no iGPU on the i7 (also pretty sure the HP uefi bios doesn’t support iommu)
Thanks for the suggestion though!