If you have an open drive, dual-boot is a easy risk-free way to try it out without losing anything. Of course, after trying the linux install for the first time a few months back, the only reason I opened Windows was to pull files off of before I wiped it.
Pro tip: If you dual boot, don’t just wipe the windows drive when you’re done with it without a plan. I erased my boot loader and my PC didn’t know where linux was any more and it was a whole thing.
This is what I did. There is still 1 thing I need windows for that has yet to support Linux and I haven’t gotten the work-around method to yield good performance yet. So I gave Windows its own drive. Linux is now my daily driver and I just boot into Win 11 when I need it. Everything works great save for Windows forgetting what time it is because I was booted into Linux previously.
If you have an open drive, dual-boot is a easy risk-free way to try it out without losing anything. Of course, after trying the linux install for the first time a few months back, the only reason I opened Windows was to pull files off of before I wiped it.
Pro tip: If you dual boot, don’t just wipe the windows drive when you’re done with it without a plan. I erased my boot loader and my PC didn’t know where linux was any more and it was a whole thing.
This is what I did. There is still 1 thing I need windows for that has yet to support Linux and I haven’t gotten the work-around method to yield good performance yet. So I gave Windows its own drive. Linux is now my daily driver and I just boot into Win 11 when I need it. Everything works great save for Windows forgetting what time it is because I was booted into Linux previously.