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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 ๐ง just commit and you'll have an easier time.
Since
vfio
exists, most people shouldn't need to dual boot.Can you elaborate? Googling linux vfio just gives me text heavy documents I dont understand. How does that replace dual booting and how would I use it?
Note: I have not done any of this myself. I've just read about it in various places. Look up "single GPU passthrough" if you need to find more info. As far as I understand it, vfio can be used to pass more than just your GPU, but that's the use case most people are probably interested in.
I've only gone through the reddit thread and tbh most people seem to be bashing this method and pointing out flaws? It doesn't seem like a magic bullet solution and dual boot seems like the better option, at least for now.
Fair, I suppose, but just remember: Reddit isn't a place for encouraging ideas. There's no shortage of people who will shit on an otherwise good idea.
But if you're looking for a magic bullet, this definitely isn't it, or else people would be using this instead of Proton/Wine. It's just an option you can use if you're dual booting for only a few apps (i.e. wasting hard drive space for a few use cases).