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Which is the better option + spinning a vm is possible and ltsc the only issue is I have to repirte a windows license for ltsc(and according to Microsoft ltsc was mostly designed for embedded systems) thanks for any help and I decided to post it on the linux community bcs I couldn't find a suitable place to post it and this is related to linux but man I love linux tho and if I go with the jumpship method I have to sadly leave some games behind like roblox (it's fine due to some moderation issues bad games etc etc but ngl its a fun game ik sober exists but i kinda dont wanna use a android emulator to play roblox i could use it since its our only option for linux and also i need to wait some time for my affinity subscription to end orrrr i try running it on bottles/wine again)
Edit: I have delete roblox due to 2 reasons one to ease deleting windows and their management
Edit 2: i might test first If I ever boot into my windows disk to see if I need it anymore

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[–] mathias_freire@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Depends on your needs. If you use any proprietary production tools like Photoshop, you may still need to keep Windows on the side. As for myself, unless the user really gets used to Linux, gains some experience, I do not advise to switch to Linux fully. I've seen so many people who did this and returned back to Windows.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

i am getting rid of softawre that do not work on linux soon, and most of the apps and games i use work on linux.

[–] mathias_freire@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

That's a good. You may still keep Windows on the side to use just in case. And you may use Linux all the time until you get really used to it. Then you may totally remove it sometime. I advise you to keep it until you're really sure.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Jump ship with us all! 😁 At this point, the very few games that I am leaving behind are only the ones that use anticheat systems that do not work with linux, and I don't think I'll really miss letting a game company rootkit my macine...

I would go the VM route first, and if you run into any troubles then you still always have the option of installing a 2nd hard drive for bare-metal windows dual boot later. If you do need to dual boot, I don't recommend partitioning one hard drive. Windows isn't good at sharing.

If you're new to linux and unsure about what distribution to install, there are plenty of better sources online with distro recommendations. I tend to use Debian on server/headless and Fedora for desktop/laptop. But I will say, picking an option with the KDE/Plasma desktop environment will probably be the easiest transition. It should feel and look pretty familiar to what you are used to with Windows and many distros offer an installation for KDE/Plasma.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you’re new to linux and unsure about what distribution to install, there are plenty of better sources online with distro recommendations. I tend to use Debian on server/headless and Fedora for desktop/laptop. But I will say, picking an option with the KDE/Plasma desktop environment will probably be the easiest transition. It should feel and look pretty familiar to what you are used to with Windows and many distros offer an installation for KDE/Plasma.

I have used linux in the past and currently using it i have been using linux more then windows

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[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

ngl most of the games that don't work on linux are owned by frauds companies or have issues with management and waiting for affinity subscription to end as well i wanna get rid of the other windows ssd i can get the most space with raid

I jump shipped to arch when I first started out. But I had experience with Linux vms for school already

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I could switch to Linux but sadly I can't (one of the main things I use a computer for won't work on Linux) so I'll be using windows 10 beyond eol and forever into the foreseeable future and I don't see native instruments making a Linux version any time soon. I email them at least once a year asking about it in the hope they one day fucking do it!

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ltsc is possible it is for embedded systems tho

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have no idea what LTSC is but I shall have a bit of a search around after work to see if it is something I can benefit from. Thank you :)

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yw but ltsc you can use windows till 2034 or smth

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[–] BaumGeist@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Jump ship. If you can make do without windows, do so. It takes away so much of the frustration, and you just learn to let it go when devs won't make linux-compatible binaries: after all, it's basically them telling you they need to be able to spy on you, so why use their app?

[–] umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I chose the dual boot option when I decided to switch a year ago, and I found myself rarely using Windows eventhough it is installed on my laptop. I might have only boot it up 3-4 times since the switch, for GFN not working properly with ALT when running through browser. The dual boot just make my disk partition needlessly complicated, and I'm going to reinstall it yet again, without Windows.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 1 week ago

I feel you. I installed dual boot and basically just never bothered to boot Windows again because the stuff I need works.

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[–] DoubleChad@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Throwing out another idea: I upgraded an aging laptop and put mint on it and it's my main right now, but I can get on the newer windows computer if I need to. I rarely need to now, though things will come up and its nice to have an out. Recently it was getting my printer working which I so rarely use. Didn't have the patience, just needed the doc printed, flipped to windows.

It's a little sad to me. I watched windows rise to its peak with windows 2000 and slowly fall. Been using it since 3.1, and had dos-only for a little while before that. It's time to say goodbye. Been on and off with Linux since the early 2000s but this is my first real big push to use it outside of work or projects. Linux has come a long way from those days.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

what printer brand your on?

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[–] tikimusic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dual boot and give it a shot.

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[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'd say dual boot. Jumping ship from windows to linux without it is very hard, especially if you enjoy playing a windows-only game or rely on windows-only software. A virtual machine can work for some basic software, but you need to do GPU passt trough to the VM to be able to game at all, which is a... let's just say not insignificant amount of messing around and configuring stuff.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can quit all the windows software it's not hard for me

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'd still recommend dual booting, just in case...

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[–] Disonantezko@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
  1. LTSC + WSL (Better than VM)
  2. Dual Boot
  3. Linux only
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