Hi, I appreciate that you consider to dump the bloatware. I recently installed Ubuntu 24.04, and also Ubuntu 25.10. And, unfortunately, I have to say, both versions have installation issues on my computer. In the installer, when I select erase disk and install with LVM, the installer crashes and isn’t able to recover.

Also after the installation, I have graphic issues with the steam interface (only shows up when I run it from terminal) and sometimes the brave browser (snap version) just closes and nothing else happens.

As different distribution, I tried only cachy OS. Similar problems there. Not sure if my AMD CPU is not compatible with the AMD GPU I recently bought… hmm… Thought the AMD drivers were already built-in in the kernel…

Well, to sum it up, I have problems with Linux I didn’t have half a year ago, and it may be hardware related. So expect to try some bugfixing… Good luck.

It’s possible you might have to disable secureboot in your bios

Dual booting with Windows and Linux on the same physical drive is risky as Windows has a reputation for breaking bootloaders. If you want to try things out safely, use Ventoy. It will also let you easily test drive multiple live images, if you want.

Give Fedora KDE a try. I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu to anyone.

Did it about a month ago. Total newbie. It went pretty smooth other than it not booting straight away, I used the packager the unbuntu guide suggested. I needed to change a Setting and ended up doing it again the following day and used a different packager and then it booted without problem.

Everything will mostly work out of the box without any intervention. However, this is one of ASUS’ most problematic models even on Windows due to the dual screens and touch features.

Check this out: https://github.com/Fmstrat/zenbook-duo-linux

There’s also a handful of other repos that specifically address ASUS feature compatibility for their odd models. You should be fine.

I just recommend checking things from the live boot environment. I found out once that some things didn’t work (HDMI , Ethernet, Wi-Fi) only after installing, and it was a hassle. Ended up switching to a different distro that did work out of the box.

I’ve heard nvidia power management is a shitshow for laptops, I know someone that couldn’t get rtd3 power management to work on their 3000 series laptop gpu. that was on arch though, im not sure if Ubuntu has something set up already to handle that

Also something to remember, if you really need Windows back it can be reinstalled almost as easily as any Linux distro. You flash an .iso to a USB, download massgrave, and you’re set.

For sure the ideal is not needing Windows at all, but as one of those people who do need it and find myself reinstalling it fairly often (niche VR hardware), it’s easier to make the leap to wipe a Windows install when you know you can get it back without too much fuss.

I doubt there’s anything to get “wrong” during the install. The most likely issue I see is after installation; support for weird hardware may or may not be there. If that happens, you can just make a windows installer stick on your desktop and go back to the way it was.

Hardware seems powerful enough that Ubuntu will run fine.

On software side, if you must use a Windows program, Wine usually solves it. If it doesn’t, Virtualbox does. If it doesn’t, some times you can find per-case solutions. If you can’t, we’d be working with extremely edge cases that maybe you could solve by swapping the SSD for one with Windows installed or getting a cheap second hand computer just for that.