Correct! Then you would go through the Windows Partition manager and slice off a chunk of space to use. I'd recommend at least 100GB for comfortable use, if you just wanna try out. You can still access the Windows half of the disk through Linux, but not the other way around.
Nice, some "open world" games lags on windows... My laptop is 2014's low end
Yup. Also, regardless of installing linux, if you haven't backed those files up, you should do that anyway. I've been lazy myself with backups lately, but it's because I have a new main laptop and also recently replaced all by drives in my other laptops. One drive was failing health tests (reason to have backups!), and I figured might as well replace/upgrade everything while I was at it ^_^
Shouldn't you let the linux installer handle the partitioning/resizing?
True.
I trust the installer to handle it's own partitioning for Linux, like how it could separate space for swap and root partitions, for instance. I do not trust it to not nuke the preexisting install without explicitly having free space already set up, so I do it from the Windows side. Unless you do everything manually through the installer (which a new user DEFINITELY shouldn't be doing)
Can you give additional details about what graphics card you have, what drivers, and if you're on X11 or Wayland?
KDE still supports X11/Xlibre, it just defaults to wayland, wayland still has some issues it needs to iron out especially for things like support for the blind or impaired.
Well first off, as much as it sucks, use nvidia's proprietary drivers on linux, nvidia's drivers are somewhat notoriously bad on linux but they work fine, the open source drivers are behind.
I decided to say fuck it, install the Fedora that was working on my system prior to installing it, and for some reason, everything works. 180hz monitor with a 144hz built in screen, changed it to some other hz, nothing broke, I guess it seems that fedora is truly the superior linux distro for me lol
That's related to secure boot, if your pc is not accessable by others you should be fine with that failing, but it can fail even on windows.
All of the ones that I've tested so far gave me the following:
It's likely related to nvidia drivers, but unfortunately i can't say for sure as i'm on AMD.
I find it obsurd that the Arch-based distros are the best ones for me when they are related to the same community that yells rtfm to other users. For experienced users that are trying to look for help, that's fine, but for anyone who is trying to get into the move and groove of things (especially since pacman to me looks a bit more complicated than rfm and deb combined)
I can only speak for garuda, mint and manjaro installers (only ones I have used in recent memory), but all (now that I think about it, maybe not garuda but manjaro for sure) have a special option "install along with windows" which I assume any major distro will have, and I would use that. Having a bunch of empty space made manually on the windows side I think would be more likely to confuse the installer... But yea, I'm not an expert: it's been ~15 years since dual booting mandriva with windows 7 (only time I did), and I don't recall needing to partition on windows side.
From what I understand, endeavor is basically arch, so it is not meant to be easy, so I understand that >_< Garuda has some nice gui tools for stuff, so that is what I use. idk, but in my experience, I like the stability of the arch software repositories: arch based distros (manjaro, garuda) have given me a much better experience vs ubuntu/mint.
Well i can't blame you on that, the arch forums are a bit..."special", but i don't ask questions there for a reason, though to be fair it's better than it used to be.
Why is this one in particular a meme? I tried getting that one to work on my machine, and it refuses to even boot.
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Well thank goodness it didn't even work on me otherwise I could've been into toruble.Obligatory:
Anyway they track user data, i believe it's opt out but the fact it's there in the first place is enough for me, otherwise the way the AUR is handled by manjaro causes alot of problems on the user end.
One might be inclined to ask if you're sure your installation media was formatted with the correct file system. I wouldn't imagine Linux just not booting is that common a problem.
