After more than a decade in the Windows world, I’m finally taking the step into the Linux world, specifically considering Ubuntu or Fedora. I’m looking for advice on making this transition as seamless as possible, with a focus on improving my coding experience and ensuring a smooth gaming setup.

What are the key things I should take into account for a good transition? Any must-have tools, software, or tweaks? Additionally, I’m keen on maintaining a good gaming experience – any tips for optimizing gaming performance on these distros?

Your insights, recommendations, and personal experiences would be immensely helpful as I embark on this exciting journey. Thanks in advance for your guidance!

  • TheWiseAlaundo
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    1 year ago

    I’d dual boot. Get one drive for Windows, and another for a Debian distro like Ubuntu. If you’re new to Linux then there’s a good chance you could mess up and accidentally kill your display by updating drivers manually or something. By having another OS that you know on hand, you always have something to fall back on while you figure out what you just did.

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      1 year ago

      Does having dual boot work completely fine without any quirks to look out for on disk management? For example, if I install both OSs on the same drive, or even if I install them on separate drives, can I access a non-system drive from both OSs? Is there any caveat of dual OS on disk drive management?

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        1 year ago

        I’ve got two physically different drives. Can’t say I’ve ever installed two OS’s on the same disk.

        My Linux system can modify my windows drive without any problems, but my windows OS can’t even see my Linux drive. I’m thinking that this might be because windows can’t read ext4 formatting.

        If you use two physically separate drives, you can set boot order in your bios, so it’s like having two completely different machines. Over the years I boot to windows less and less, only really keeping it around for FPS games that need anti-cheat software, and for VR stuff.