So I’ve already had experience with dual booting windows/Linux and using different types of Linux distros on their own as well as using virtual machines. I’ve gotten rid of windows on my desktop completely but my laptop still has windows 11 and is the only thing I own that uses windows at all anymore. Before I make the jump I wanted to see a couple peoples opinions because I’m no expert but I feel like its easier for things to go wrong when changing a laptop as opposed to a desktop.
Do I have anything to worry about? Is the process going to be basically the same? Will there be any “safeguards” in the laptop that try to prevent something like this?
The laptop is an Asus zenbook pro duo, 1tb ssd, 32gb ram, Intel i7, nvidia geforce rtx 3070. Just in case that has any effect on anything.
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.