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[–] DSX@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ll be trying out Linux outside of a virtual machine for the first time. I’ve got a SATA SSD external enclosure that I’ll be using to boot without messing with my current pc

[–] filister@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Say goodbye to your free time. Linux is a huge rabbit hole.

[–] moreeni@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] LedzMx@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

And just for the first couple of days. Once you set it up it works like any other OS. I don't think most people change the way their pc works every other day. Once you get the hang of it it stays mostly the same. This year I changed full from w10 to mint and no issues since.

[–] DSX@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah there’s a ton of stuff to learn. I’ve got some experience from my college courses but I want to get ahead before I take the ones that really test my Linux knowledge.

[–] dtxer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't agree. It depends really on what you're using it for. I have one machine with Xubuntu installed and it's been used just for browsing or putting movies to the tv and it's been just plug and play so far.

There was the one issue, of not being able to use some streaming services, because of drm protection meaning you can only stream via their windows desktop app not via browser. I took it as an invitation for streaming the stuff from somewhere else for free shrug

[–] randomTingler@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you going to unplug the existing harddisk? If your Linux /efi partition is written in the windows boot partition, you are kind of messed up.

Better unplug the existing harddisk and try Linux, once you are comfortable you can switch to dual boot then completely swith over to Linux.

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have dual booted Linux and Windows many times and never had a problem. I just boot my old Windows install through grub. The Ubuntu installer asks you if you want to do this and sets it all up for you.

[–] DSX@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve seen tutorials where people installed Linux using a virtual machine that can only see the ISO usb and the drive you are installing Linux on to do that. It’ll be a pain removing the drives from my laptop. I probably won’t be dual booting because I use nvidia GPUs + can’t switch to Linux full time because nvidia and I use CUDA for projects.

[–] randomTingler@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Update us, how things went after you install it.

[–] DSX@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So I think I got it to work. Used a virtual machine to install it onto the drive, and now my laptop boots to Ubuntu when the drive is plugged in. Took a while for me to figure out which partition sizes I needed for stuff since I wanted to do manual partitioning.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good luck! What distro are you trying?

[–] DSX@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m probably going to stick with something simple like Ubuntu 22.04 since some forward I use is only supported on that.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You could also try linux mint, ubuntu has been doing some sketchy stuff lately.