I Want to Install Linux FAQ

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Yeah I can VM Manjaro if I want to test it out & I have been using Mint for a year or something in a dual-boot. Which I DO NOT recommend, because of the Virus 10 clock settings etc. It’s really irritating. Virus 7 never had any problems with dual-booting. "/

I’m probably going to hop on to Mint again. ^^

The pass-through isn’t going to happen in a month or two, because I need to buy a new PSU and one more GPU, so that thread isn’t really interesting to start just yet, but thank you for adding that. Will make a dedicated one in a month or two. Thanks. I’m done. Mint it is.

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There’s a setting somewhere to make Linux cooperate with Windows 10. and it’s overzealousness in setting the system clock to localized time.

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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: Leader HQ 2.0

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Yeah I know, it shouldn’t be like that, so that is why I’m not recommending it.

Virtual Machine’s are awesome though. I recommend that instead. Test 300 distros and 10 operating systems at the same time if you want and can, it’s a far better and a greater experience. VirtualBox works in Virus, Mac & Linux is free and simple to set up… If you want it even easier, Linux has LiveCD/DVD which is also a very good way to just try out a Distro on. (Just adding some alternatives to dual-booting.)

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thanks… the first debian link is exactly what i was looking for.

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My two cents here. If you are wanting to run Linux. Dont expect to run Microsoft applications such as Office, Photoshop, notepad <— lol

There are thousands of applications and ideas. come into Linux with an open mind.

Examples.

Photoshop = Darktable, Inkscape, Gimp
Adobe Reader = pdf reader. too many to mention.
Code IDE. Too many to List. Vim, Nvim, Emacs, gedit, bluefish, builder etc etc
Office = Libreoffice, freeoffice,

documentation MS Word = Latex, LibreOffice etc

Music. Too many to List. there are alternatives to many if not all Microsoft Solutions. the fun… Is finding what works best for you.

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Apologies for bumping thread up.

Few weeks ago with Windows 10 EOL I decided I would switch to Windows 11. So I started preparing, even turned on TPM in BIOS. And 3 days ago, my NVME SSD with OS died. It’s kaput. New SSD arrived yesterday (I didn’t have backup for some files on OS SSD - I know).

Question - I will have to install Windows 11 - I sadly need it. But I also want to try Linux and give it a fair shake this time… last time was in 2001 I think. Commands scare me a bit. I understand them and can parse through them slowly, but 25 years ago a ton of things required command line. Now allegedly not.

Should I install Linux on same new SSD as Windows 11? I assume there are issues, something “bootlocker” and generally systems for some time weren’t perfect for working alongside each other. If so should I install Windows 11 in a different way from beginning to make installation possible?

Alternatively, I can move stuff from smaller SSD (one I had was 0,5TB, I bought 2TB, I have 0,5TB and 2TB in Mobo still) to new SSD and install Windows on the small SSD. And then Install Linux on different physical drive (I don’t even know if it will help).

For background and system: Gigabyte Aorus Elite AX (I think it’s AX) X570S (definitely S) motherboard. 5950X CPU. 64GB of RAM (I plan update to 128GB - LLM’s are fun), RX 6700 10GB (Also plan upgrade - probably 9060XT 16GB).

I used to have a lot of experience with PC’s, since I was basically one person “System Integrator”… but that was between 1999 and 2011. Now I have F5 BIOS on this mobo still and I’m scared to try installing new BIOS, because electricity is terrible here - even though I have UPS. Yes, I have genuine mental health issues including anxieties. Even those that aren’t logical ones.

I also recently installed Whisper on my PC and yt-dlp and LM Studio. That means I had to do some stuff through command line on Windows… and it wasn’t as bad as I remembered from DOS in 1995. Installing Python, Chocolatey, PyTorch - gave me some confidence. So maybe Linux now. Though it would be great if it could be installed 2nd, after Windows (if it doesn’t make things significantly more difficult) and I would need advise on the “Which SSD” and “Does Windows obstruct Linux” questions. Since this guide is from 2020 and I did hear terrible things about Windows 11 making booting from Linux horrible if installed incorrectly or if not installed first or both.

I don’t know if I did horrible thing by bringing this thread up from the dead. I’m terrible at social conversations. But I searched “Dual Boot” and “Windows + Linux” and similar and this looked like best place, because only 1 thread seemed newer, but with less newer updates. Apologies if I did something terrible again.

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In my use case, back when I “had to” use Windows, It ran really well in a libvirt VM.

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If you must dualboot, this is the best option. Keep Windows on a separate drive.

It should be worth noting that the VM route is a gamechanger today, too. Especially if you learn to load stuff via QEmu - not only is it a more lightweight virtualisation machine over Virtualbox or VMWare, you can automate a lot more with it. Sadly there is a bit of a learning threshold with QEmu, but it’s not really that bad.

Of course, VMs can only take you that far - They are great for say, working with Microsoft Office, but if you do heavy Adobe renders or stuff like that, then yeah a dualboot might just be your best option here.