My plan is to buy an NVMe today, install linux as a dual boot, but use linux as a daily driver, to see if it meets my needs before committing to it.
My main needs are gaming, local AI (stable diffusion and oobabooga), and browser stuff.
I have experience with Mint (recently) and Ubuntu (long ago). Any problems with my plan? Will my OS choice meet my needs?
Thanks!
I did a similar thing when starting out with KDE neon, but I found having windows annoying as it would keep breaking Linux’s bootloader (grub) randomly because Microsoft is an asshole.
On my laptop, I ended up removing the windows disk altogether, and it’s a much nicer experience.
Dual boot might be necessary at first, but if you can just boot Linux and use a windows vm on it, that would probably be a better idea.
From experience windows only seems to screw grub If they’re installed on the same drive, I use seperate drives for windows/Linux and haven’t noticed any issues
I used seperate drives, and installed Windows and Linux seperately before connecting them to the same pc, but I still had the problem.
Can windows also break grub on gpt or only legacy mbr?
My suggestion is to have separate boot loaders on separate drives then switch using your BIOS.
That’s the thing though - Windows deleted my grub boot entry so I couldn’t selext grub from the bios