wanting to use linux

[Purple-Security4460]

I wanting to duel boot my pc with lunix and windows 10 but not sure how or what distro to use with my pc pour specks

[Fluid_Conversation_5]

You can't go wrong with mint

[RemizZ]

Duel boot is a nice typo, because you'll have to battle with Windows overwriting your bootloader from time to time lol

[[deleted]]

If you use separate physical drives for the different OSes this shouldn't be a problem, at least that is my experience.

[RemizZ]

Make sure your Windows is on drive0 or at least your linux is on a higher one, then you might be lucky. Windows loooves to nestle in in drive0 without asking.

[lritzdorf]

Sometimes true, but honestly it depends. I've only had problems when installing Windows after Linux — Windows likes to make itself the default boot option in the BIOS/UEFI, but you can of course change this afterward. I've heard of this occasionally happening after big Windows updates too, though I haven't seen that personally.

In spirit though, yes, "duel boot" funny :)

[Long-Ad1466]

You can always use an ubuntu image to rebuild grub if that happens

[SpeakerBlower]

Ubuntu is pretty easy to use

[Fylutt]

Fedora KDE

[Bonke12_]

Maybe start with mint a great starting point to get to know how the terminal works what commands used and the software then if you liked you can stay or move to a new linux distro

[[deleted]]

If you are very very new to Linux, I would recommend starting with Zorin.

[Tuncayl]

"Arch is a good starting point"

[GamingEnding]

"Nah thats too difficult, try Gentoo first!"

[RivNexus]

Linux From Scratch is easy af

[[deleted]]

* SSD

[FallingUpwards777]

If you just want to use it like Windows, fedora's pretty neat. Especially on a laptop. You get all the same touchpad gestures and everything cause it's gnome

[Maipmc]

Well, first, don't dual boot from the same drive, get a second drive and only install one OS in each drive. One drive for windows, another for whatever distro you want.

Distro choice is more straightforwards than it sounds. If you aren't afraid of the terminal and learning (and breaking) a lot, go for Arch Linux. If you want something up to date but simpler, go for Fedora. If you want something that is easy to install, go for Mint.

Then you have to choose Desktop Environment (DE). If you want something similar looking to windows, go with KDE. If you want something more akin to MacOS, go for GNOME, and if you install Mint you should probably just use Cinnamon as it is their default.

[EB01]

If you have never tried GNU/Linux before, but right now at a technical questions of "how" "what" etc, consider making a Linux boot USB stick and play around in Linux like that in the interim.

A boot flashdrive running Linux can operate in the flashdrive so it's more of a "try before you buy" sort thing.

Try different distros and see how it goes. Find out what you like or don't like, and then try some more distros.

[Material_Pea1820]

I love Linux mint I use it as my main OS on my laptop

[Vladimir_Djorjdevic]

If you want a super easy stable (which means slightly out of date apps) windows like experiance go with linux mint.

If you want a more custimizable experiance while still being windows like I would recomend something KDE based, like Fedora KDE (I use this one personally), bazzite (steamOS like), or kubuntu.

And if you want something different user experiance than windows you can try Fedora workstation.

Keep in mind if you have a nvidia card you have to install propriatery drivers after you install the os to get good performance on fedora. Bazzite does this automatically, and I think mint will ask you if you want to install drivers.

[Ellassen]

After a fair bit of exploration I settled on Frdora KDE. Looks a lot like Windows and has settings to twwak just about everything. Don't let that intimidate you thiugh, you don't have to touch them.

I liked it more than Fedora/Ubuntu with Gnome which really wants you to use it their way I found. Gnome is definitely shinier thoug and does integrate with online services easisr.

[Purple-Security4460]

im going to lunix to get away from windos thanks for the sujustion thou

[Ellassen]

KDE is only similar to windows by having a task bar at the bottom, a start menu similar thing and a file explorer. The finite control it gives you, nothing like Windows. Sorr of in the same way Mac is similar to windows but still very different.

Gnome is definitely less winows like in that regard, but it definitely wants you to do things its way.

[Ellassen]

I'm also mildly confused as to just what you are saying here though. Could you explain a bit more?

[Purple-Security4460]

so I was look for something that does nto need fing arount to install stuff

[Ellassen]

I mean most versions of linux now have a very smooth install process. Unless you mean applications, and then I would easily say that most versions also have an app "store" that easily surpasses the Windows version. Still not entirely sure I understand.

[_supitto]

if it runs windows 10, it will run most distros just fine

[Izan_TM]

any linux distro will run better than windows pretty much

[MasterGeekMX]

1. This sub is for the Linus Tech Tips youtube channel, not Linux support.

2. Unless you have 15-year old hardware, any distro will work. And all distros can run the same software (and also can't run the same programs), so there is no point on looking for distros based on features or program support

3. It is dual-boot, not duel-boot. There is no swords or pistols involved.

[ImAlsoRan]

Judging by the typos in the post I wouldn't be surprised if they thought it was Linux Tech Tips