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submitted 3 days ago by Des@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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literally just learned of it through some random reddit comment (the comment was about how it really fixes issues with AMD gpu drivers).

good? trustworthy? pros and cons? good for first linux os?

i've been lazy and have been riding out my windows 10 extension but this actually seems really easy with clear instructions to set up a dual boot and slowly hand over more of my hdd space to it. also seems pretty secure, open source, etc but i just want to make sure it's not sus

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[–] TinyMoose@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't dual boot on the same drive. Windows doesn't play nice with Linux on the same drive. Bazzite is probably okay for a first distro but I prefer Mint for that sorta thing. I personally run Debian on older hardware and Fedora on newer stuff that isn't supported. Bazzite is 'immutable' which means it's rather difficult to extend it's capabilities if you might want to. I have had mixed results with it though on different machines, stability wise.

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Don't dual boot on the same drive. Windows doesn't play nice with Linux on the same drive.

This is one to be wary of - Windows will frequently clear out the UEFI table, which means deleting all boot entries aside from its own. If your installs are on one drive, this becomes complicated to fix. I can only assume this is deliberate because there's no reason for it other than trying to convince people trying Linux that it just randomly breaks.

If your linux install is on its own drive, you just boot from that drive in legacy mode, and GRUB will automatically restore all the UEFI entries for you before you notice.

[–] Des@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

damn that sucks i gave windows my Nme drive. i have a good ssd 1 tb also