I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows

    Sounds like you took your time, got comfortable, found a distro you liked, and generally did it all the right way. Now watch as with each new headline you see about Windows or MS you become happier and happier with your decision. There’s no better advertisement for Linux than the behavior of MS and Windows. 😁

    Congrats on dumping Windows. One of us! One of us!

  • quantenzitrone@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    nice

    i remember nuking my windows dual boot about 2 years ago

    pretty similar story: i discovered almost all my games work with wine, so i didn’t use windows for a few month. eventually i didn’t see any point in keeping it around.

  • Stefano Prenna@lemmy.stefanoprenna.com
    3·
    2 years ago

    I remember when I did the switch in 2008 and never looked back. I had a similar experience where across a few years I have been trying different distributions and finally settled on Lubuntu. Years have passed and different machines as well. Now my main driver is a Steam Deck with his Arch based OS and a secondary pure Arch on a sd card for more specific tasks.

    Linux made my life more comfortable and relaxed, without even mentioning secure. My family uses Linux now, Windows is long dead.

    We are free.

    • swearengen@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      I remember when I did the switch in 2008 and never looked back.

      I wasn’t far behind you. My first laptop around that time came with Vista installed. Didn’t take long for me to switch Ubuntu after that, haven’t been back to Windows since.

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
      0·
      2 years ago

      I actually set up Linux on my family machine 1 year ago and they don’t even notice since all they need is a browser and vlc. So they have been daily driving Linux longer than me :)

      • Grass@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        2 years ago

        This is the way. Dealing with the significantly fewer problems they have is easier too. Most things I can ssh in without even touching the computer and fix the issue from my laptop.

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Thanks. I was already part of the club. Now just I burnt the access card to the other club

  • TwinTusks@bitforged.spaceEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I only use Windows for work nowadays, I have a mind to swap it with Linux too but afraid it’ll mess up with some programs.

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      Basically the windows partition was taking up around 250 gb. And wasn’t even booting into it. Sure I could access it from Linux, but it was literally useless.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    2 years ago

    so clean installed everything to be fedora.

    It may not have been necessary to do a complete reinstall. If fedora uses LVM or BTRFS for your partitions (which it likely does) then you could have just formated the windows drive and added it to your “pool”.

    • IsoSpandy@lemm.eeOP
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      2 years ago

      I actually did everything on Ext4 and had a separate home partition which was only 30gigs. So that was the main gripe in the previous install I had I thought to rectify it.

      Alas I didn’t use btrfs this time also and did Ext4. Maybe I should have enabled snapshots. Who knows. I may just be an adventurous dude.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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        2 years ago

        Are you using LVM? It’s a layer that sits under ext4 that allows for partition management similar to btrfs. You can find out if you’re using it by running sudo lvdisplay and you would see some logical volumes listed.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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    2 years ago

    Not sure how Bottles and not buying games directly relate (other than Bottles also being able to play pirated games obviously), but anyway.

    I switched to Linux on my main computer as a “New Year’s Resolution” and so far I’m not missing much. I did cross-grade from an RTX 3080 to a Radeon 7800 XT because 95 % of the problems I experienced were related to Nvidia and their crappy drivers, but after that I had little issues in general.

    I also use Fedora + KDE. KDE on Wayland seems to be the most reliable way to get VRR (FreeSync) working with multiple monitors. I installed it onto a new SSD I bought for this purpose, but I’ll transition more and more SSDs over to the Linux install as time progresses. The only reason I booted into Windows again so far was to check out some application’s configuration so I could replicate it on Fedora’s side. I didn’t even bother to install the Radeon GPU driver under Windows.

    I could complain about smaller issues, but these are mostly related to third party software where the Linux version has some weird quirks (or where there’s straight up no Linux version, mainly games).

    Overall very solid and I assume it only gets better with time.

  • Jayb151@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    Man, I had fresh imaged windows 11, and windows update nuked my bios. Never again.

    I installed endeavor, but the lack of a GUI for installations bothered me. Installed kubuntu last night.

      • Jayb151@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 years ago

        I mean…I Said windows did it lol.

        But for real, I selected to update my firmware from within Windows update. I tried for a couple days, but was not able to recover it. Since I had an HP pre built, I used it as an opportunity to upgrade. I got a new motherboard and a couple parts and I’m back on my feet.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
    02·
    2 years ago

    Welcome to the Penguin party - you are free now :) And thanks for sharing your OS adventure.