Hopefully this kind of post isn’t too tired, but I figure it’s my turn:

Finally decided to, after absolutely refusing to upgrade to 11, make the jump from Win10 to Linux! Been hopping around distros a bit and landed on EndeavourOS last night and I’m really enjoying it so far.

It’s definitely tinkery and took me like 2 hours just to get my push to talk working in Discord (mostly due to my own lack of knowledge), but I love the level of control of everything you have (was on Pop!_OS before 🤮, edit: no hate, just wasn’t for me!)

There’s definitely never been a better time to switch and I’m very excited for when I inevitably brick my shit and come back here for help, so thanks in advance everyone! :)

  • BlueFootedPetey
    3•2 days ago

    Yea im about to switch myself. Been looking at suggestions and stuff, probably gonna start with Mint myself.

    Many different sources advise putting it on a flashdrive first and loading from there, to start. Make sure I like it.

    But the end goal, eventually, would be to remove windows from the comp entirely, right? Eventually installing my chosen distro as the OS on the computer itself? Does that sound about right?

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂOP
      2•2 days ago

      For me, I’ve been throwing distros on a spare SSD so I could test run in a proper install, but I’m sure a thumbdrive would be fine. Just keep in mind that you might get some hangs and things will be slower due to the speed of the drive, rather than the inefficiencies of the OS you end up on. If you want to test out specific programs or games or something, you can always do what I did and put them on a separate faster storage drive (I’m on SATA SSD for my OS right now, but am putting other things on NVME).

      As I mentioned elsewhere, I still have my Windows on another drive so I can boot to it if I need to, but I honestly haven’t needed to even once since switching, so I’ll probably end up just switching to VM only for anything that requires Windows fairly soon here.

      The transition has been much simpler and smoother than I ever had imagined.

      • BlueFootedPetey
        1•23 hours ago

        Thanks. I did read that from the boot drive it would be slower, and missing some features. Im looking to go slow so thats fine by.

        You kept windows on another drive, like a hard drive in the comp? Or a thumb drive?

        Glad to hear the transition was smooth. That seems to be the general opinon. Its just sometimes reading conversations between people who have been on linux awhile, or maybe work in IT or programming, I get a little nervous. Kernals and directories and other things that I know are words but have no idea what the mean in the computer world.