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)
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.
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)
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.
Most "arch based distros" have forums for you to ask questions on, those tend to be far less "extreme".
You can use .deb and applimage on arch based distros if you download the proper libraries for it, generally speaking if you try a arch based distro again, i'd suggest trying garuda or, as much of a meme as it is, manjaro, both are more user friendly than endeavor, cachy or arch.
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.
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.
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.
It was only Manjaro, and I blame it for doing something to my ventoy drive as it nearly removed it for some reason. I had to reinstall ventory and put the IOS back on there.
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.
A fringe distro can cause a panic and crash. I forget what distro it was (only instance I experienced this and it was years ago), but the installer would crash to a garbled screen. But you're right it is rare, to not boot at all. I assume it is from using some windows tool that fucks up the flags or something and writes it like a storage device? Except for that one case where I'm pretty sure the distro itself was fucked, dd has always worked for me ^_^
Secure boot was my first guess. I have a friend on Mint with an Nvidia card, and until secure boot was disabled, the nvidia driver wouldn't load (and the open source nouveau was loading instead). She wasn't even getting the second monitor to be detected until the right drivers were loading.
So I remember somebody talking about me using Manjaro as my main Distro on Windows, and even with Propietary Drivers, it still manages to break my second monitor. This time, it's the one I think is correct where it locks my 180hz monitor to 60hz and anything above it will break the monitor. This is really sad. Guess I have to start investing in a Desktop PC catered towards getting this shit to run on Linux and whatnot.
The only ones that haven't failed on me as much as the others is Pop!OS, Fedora GNOME, and Fedora KDE.
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I'm testing it right now with Open Source Drivers and while the second monitor is not acting up (this might be the one with visual glitches), I cannot make the monitors sizes of their own, only with a global scale (and the laptop screen not budging in the screen size)
So yeah, for my Gaming Laptop, I'll stick to Windows, cause anything I try with getting Linux won't work on this machine, sadly... Even with Manjaro.
So I remember somebody talking about me using Manjaro as my main Distro on Windows, and even with Propietary Drivers, it still manages to break my second monitor. This time, it's the one I think is correct where it locks my 180hz monitor to 60hz and anything above it will break the monitor. This is really sad. Guess I have to start investing in a Desktop PC catered towards getting this shit to run on Linux and whatnot.
The only ones that haven't failed on me as much as the others is Pop!OS, Fedora GNOME, and Fedora KDE.
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I'm testing it right now with Open Source Drivers and while the second monitor is not acting up (this might be the one with visual glitches), I cannot make the monitors sizes of their own, only with a global scale (and the laptop screen not budging in the screen size)
So yeah, for my Gaming Laptop, I'll stick to Windows, cause anything I try with getting Linux won't work on this machine, sadly... Even with Manjaro.
Doing a bit of google searching i found out this is apparently related to nvidia gpu's specifically, there are fixes but as i don't have a nvidia gpu i can't walk you through it,
This one seems as good as any.
Doing a bit of google searching i found out this is apparently related to nvidia gpu's specifically, there are fixes but as i don't have a nvidia gpu i can't walk you through it,
This one seems as good as any.
As much as I appreciate this, im just gonna keep Windows on my gaming machine. My WorkPC with Fedora and my Family Desktop with Manjaro should simplify things out.
Guess I can finally say that by technicality, im an arch user now....
Feel like i should post ventoy for people who don't know about it, it allows you to put multiple installers in 1 drive, here's a video of jayz2cents talking about it:
Saves ALOT of time if your someone who likes to experiement.
Is "won't even partially migrate to linux yet because they have only one working SATA HDD between all of their old notebooks and no USB to SATA cables, but will write the stock ubuntu iso to a flash drive to copy personal files from a dead windows 10 installation to a portable HDD" perfectly valid?
Is "won't even partially migrate to linux yet because they have only one working SATA HDD between all of their old notebooks and no USB to SATA cables, but will write the stock ubuntu iso to a flash drive to copy personal files from a dead windows 10 installation to a portable HDD" perfectly valid?
Is "won't even partially migrate to linux yet because they have only one working SATA HDD between all of their old notebooks and no USB to SATA cables, but will write the stock ubuntu iso to a flash drive to copy personal files from a dead windows 10 installation to a portable HDD" perfectly valid?
Feel like i should post ventoy for people who don't know about it, it allows you to put multiple installers in 1 drive, here's a video of jayz2cents talking about it:
Saves ALOT of time if your someone who likes to experiement.
Might be late to the party, but yeah, Fedora is "bleeding edge" rolling release. It might be a week behind Arch in terms of packages. It's what I have been sticking to for the longest time and my next Distro hop would probably be from Fedora Workstation to Fedora Cosmic Spin if the Cosmic Beta goes well whenever that releases.
Also for those talking about managing GPU drivers and want an easier time, consider an OS like Nobara and PikaOS that have a built in Driver Manager that makes it super easy to swap which drivers for your system you are using. The devs behind Bazzite, Cachy, Nobara, and Pika get along well and tend to help each other out so won't be surprised if that Driver Manager also ends up on Bazzite and Cachy.
I still haven't used Ventoy and been always falling back on old reliable Belena Etcher or Fedora Media Writer.
I always had issues after a while when installing dual boot Linux and Windows, as Linux partition would become corrupt.
Years ago with Ubuntu and recently with Opensuse.
So I decided to have a laptop exclusively for Linux Mint and a desktop for Windows 10.
I always had issues after a while when installing dual boot Linux and Windows, as Linux partition would become corrupt.
Years ago with Ubuntu and recently with Opensuse.
So I decided to have a laptop exclusively for Linux Mint and a desktop for Windows 10.
Let me guess, single drive?
Windows tends to corrupt the boot sector of linux distros given enough time, the only time dual boot is ever viable long term is if you are using multiple drives, otherwise you will get corruption.
Id love to post a screenfetch screenshot here and go wooo yeah im a linux user, but i was forced to install windows for college this year, looking forward to going back to linux tho
I mean isn't the whole thing about Python that you import the packages of someone who solved a particular low-level problem before you right through the CLI?
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