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Seeing all this bad and negative things going on the internet let's change the pace, what is something that's good and you're excited for? (lemmy.one)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 41 points 3 years ago (14 children)

I’ll be trying out Linux outside of a virtual machine for the first time. I’ve got a SATA SSD external enclosure that I’ll be using to boot without messing with my current pc

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Say goodbye to your free time. Linux is a huge rabbit hole.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I don't agree. It depends really on what you're using it for. I have one machine with Xubuntu installed and it's been used just for browsing or putting movies to the tv and it's been just plug and play so far.

    There was the one issue, of not being able to use some streaming services, because of drm protection meaning you can only stream via their windows desktop app not via browser. I took it as an invitation for streaming the stuff from somewhere else for free shrug

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Yeah there’s a ton of stuff to learn. I’ve got some experience from my college courses but I want to get ahead before I take the ones that really test my Linux knowledge.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Are you going to unplug the existing harddisk? If your Linux /efi partition is written in the windows boot partition, you are kind of messed up.

    Better unplug the existing harddisk and try Linux, once you are comfortable you can switch to dual boot then completely swith over to Linux.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I’ve seen tutorials where people installed Linux using a virtual machine that can only see the ISO usb and the drive you are installing Linux on to do that. It’ll be a pain removing the drives from my laptop. I probably won’t be dual booting because I use nvidia GPUs + can’t switch to Linux full time because nvidia and I use CUDA for projects.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Update us, how things went after you install it.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    So I think I got it to work. Used a virtual machine to install it onto the drive, and now my laptop boots to Ubuntu when the drive is plugged in. Took a while for me to figure out which partition sizes I needed for stuff since I wanted to do manual partitioning.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Good luck! What distro are you trying?

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