I’ve been meaning to switch my pc to linux for a while but have only recently gotten enough time to switch. Is there anything that I would need a dualboot for? I was previously concerned with VR, specifically using a quest wirelessly. I heard about a year ago that it is possible but not the best. Has it improved since then?

And is there anything else I would still need a windows machine for? I don’t know specifically what doesn’t work and I don’t mind using FOSS alternatives.

I was running a raspberry pi with raspian on it as a homelab for a few years (until the SD card died :( I still need to fix that) so I am not completely unfamiliar with linux and the terminal and am willing to use it to make programs work as long as they work as well as they would on windows.

(I’ve decided on swapping to mint if that matters)

  • Solano@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I dual boot between Windows 10 and Linux Mint, but mostly still use Windows for now.

    From my experience, the tutorials on setting up the dual boots are usually done in virtual machines, or computers that already had linux on them. This is important to note because the setup processes might be different with slightly different steps. I had to manually setup the Mint partition sizes, a scary process when you are new to it.

    Make sure to install Windows first, and create a blank partition allocated for Linux with the windows partition tool. Windows will outright ignore and not see any Linux systems installed, but will recognize its own partitions it makes.