I haven’t moved to Linux because I work in healthcare and do 12 hour shifts and do not have the time needed to-
Wipe anything
Reinstall anything
Learn new things and finally
Use my computer.
The last one is the real pain. I’ll tell ya though, if I ever get to sit at my computer again I’ll learn how to unfuck it and I hope by then there’s some easy to access resources for learning a system!
Or do what I do for a portable install. Stick an old SATA or NVMe drive in a good USB enclosure (one that supports TRIM and doesn’t have dodgy drivers) plug that in, plug in an install ISO flash drive, boot the flash drive and install directly onto the external drive. Then just plug it in and boot it when you want to use Linux, or unplug it and use Windows. Boom, persistent emergency OS that you can use anywhere.
When you want to go overboard because you want more fun, get enterprise equipment and get proxmox running with all kinds of virtual machines running with whatever you please. With access from anywhere in the world through rdp or vnc or whatever and you don’t need to worry about leaving a laptop on and running connected to wall power. Always secure because your data is technically in a personal cloud.
This is literally what i’m doing for apps that have to have w10 (and fuck you cricut). Got an r210 coming i’m gonna slap proxmox on with with w10 and XP (walled, it’s for specific legacy camera hardware) vms
I haven’t moved to Linux because I work in healthcare and do 12 hour shifts and do not have the time needed to-
The last one is the real pain. I’ll tell ya though, if I ever get to sit at my computer again I’ll learn how to unfuck it and I hope by then there’s some easy to access resources for learning a system!
Don’t wipe-out everything. Grub Linux Mint/Fedora iso, and install it to be alongside Windows.
When you have free time, play with it.
Or do what I do for a portable install. Stick an old SATA or NVMe drive in a good USB enclosure (one that supports TRIM and doesn’t have dodgy drivers) plug that in, plug in an install ISO flash drive, boot the flash drive and install directly onto the external drive. Then just plug it in and boot it when you want to use Linux, or unplug it and use Windows. Boom, persistent emergency OS that you can use anywhere.
When you want to go overboard because you want more fun, get enterprise equipment and get proxmox running with all kinds of virtual machines running with whatever you please. With access from anywhere in the world through rdp or vnc or whatever and you don’t need to worry about leaving a laptop on and running connected to wall power. Always secure because your data is technically in a personal cloud.
This is literally what i’m doing for apps that have to have w10 (and fuck you cricut). Got an r210 coming i’m gonna slap proxmox on with with w10 and XP (walled, it’s for specific legacy camera hardware) vms