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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Plan on, if possible, cloning my account to a new account on a new internal drive (preferably a 2TB+ drive) to save all my stuff that I want and don't feel like moving over due to laziness. Then on another partition, I plan on having the rest of the space being used for Linux. All I gotta do is make sure the win10 partition doesn't receive an ounce of Internet connectivity at all and pray I don't end up with a virus or something similar somehow (because even the safest internet practices aren't safe enough anymore).

Hopefully I can turn that partition into a cold partition where I can keep the current games I have that aren't downloaded through Steam installed to ensure I can still play them. Then I can slowly debloat it by uninstalling everything I don't need on there and get rid of a ton of files/unnecessary programs so that way I can still have roughly 500-600GB for win10 just in case I ever need it for anything, like a program I genuinely cannot figure out how to get working on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I can't switch to Linux due to software requirements for work. On my personal computer I'm using Xubuntu for well over a decade, I didn't like the unity window manager of Ubuntu. I heard they changed to something else by now, but I can't be bothered to switch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly, I still don't know. My 3070 worked well on linux the last time I used it so hardware won't be an issue. I also don't play many modern games so that's not a problem either. It's just my partner is schizo with what games they wanna play. Rn they're obsessed with minecraft and bedrock doesn't work on linux. I know for sure I'm not going to 11 though. I've used it before and absolutely hated the UI layout.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

First off, bedrock is cancer it's just off-brand Minecraft.

But second, there is an unofficial launcher that works on Linux

https://flathub.org/apps/io.mrarm.mcpelauncher

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

linux primary with dual boot for a windows install just because of the games that won't work.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

linux, either endeavor or nobara

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

I got a new PC recently so unfortunately I am now on Windows 11. I’ve been wanting to make the swap to Linux but I can’t really make a clean break because at least some of the games I play a lot won’t work on Linux. I do think I’m gonna try to set up another hard drive with Linux on it to try to slowly start learning it and ideally move over anything that I can over there eventually and just keep the windows drive for those few games.

Does anyone have any recommendations related to that? Distro for gaming/ease of use? What’s the best option for setting up the dual boot? Anything I wouldn’t have thought of that’s relevant?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Swapped to Linux last week. Currently dual booting. Over the coming months, I'm going to slowly transfer all my stuff over as well

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Build new computer. Old computer to be a home server running Linux or something fancy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Does it really matter? I have xemu (xbox emulator), retroarch for anything else, and PSX2 to be sure on Lubuntu, combine together how many games all those have and you just don't need steam

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Linux. I've been putting if off because of hardware reasons that would be annoying to explain beyond the solution is upgrading the motherboard, which is bottlenecking me anyways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I dual boot but I'm on Windows 11 for my windows partition because the fucking thing just upgraded itself one day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

What happens if still use win 10?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I don't plan on doing anything until I have no choice but to buy a new computer.

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