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5 reasons you should ditch Windows for Linux today (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Sunshine@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.social 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s easier than you think to try out on dual boot. You can also run your windows apps through a virtual machine!

[–] Jaeger86@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is dual boot a good way to ease yourself in? I literally just made a new nvme partition to try a dual boot

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Don't do it on a machine that holds valuable data or one that you need the machine to stay functional for work. I repeatedly fucked up my installation trying to get dual boot setup initially. Bootloader are easy to mess up. Even on a working installation, a Windows update would sometimes break the dual boot.

Its not difficult to set up a virtual machine inside your Linux installation. That way you don't have to reboot and lose your other workflow to access your windows apps.