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.
I remember dealing with similar issues with steam and snap versions of apps on my desktop with amd ryzen and radeon vii. I had to kinda go out of the way to make things work like what you said having to run steam from terminal. Everything ended up working I just had to do it the roundabout way and that was using Ubuntu 22.
I completed the install of Ubuntu 24 on my laptop earlier today and I used zfs instead of lvm and I’ve had absolutely no issues all day. I’ve installed all the apps I need and have been testing everything out with no problems. Also during the install I had it download the proprietary nvidia drivers which I’m assuming helped. Only problem I had was a crash while playing arc raiders but that could happen anytime using anything
I assumed the worst when it came down to swapping over to Linux on the laptop and to my surprise its been the easiest time I’ve ever had.