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Running Linux permanently and ditching windows, who does it?

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1. What laptop you running?
2. any compatibility issues with a GPU?
3. Any issues you run into?
4. What distro you running? was considering Unbuntu due to all the drivers they have.

Thinking of doing this on my y700 (960gtm) laptop...

Don't wanna deal with compatibility issues though.

I want to learn linux 100% and a VM isn't the same thing, need to practice doing everything I would on a Windows machine, Music and so forth?

What do you recommend? I pick up a cheap chromebook and install Linux or use what I got?
 
totto said:
1. What laptop you running?
2. any compatibility issues with a GPU?
3. Any issues you run into?
4. What distro you running? was considering Unbuntu due to all the drivers they have.

Thinking of doing this on my y700 (960gtm) laptop...

Don't wanna deal with compatibility issues though.

I want to learn linux 100% and a VM isn't the same thing, need to practice doing everything I would on a Windows machine, Music and so forth?

What do you recommend? I pick up a cheap chromebook and install Linux or use what I got?
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Use an older machine...say, from 2016 or before. You should have the best compatibility with one of those. Ubuntu is your best bet for an all inclusive distro. If you wanna get crazy check out Kali (hacker shit) or one of the lighter distros like Lubuntu. All of these will force you to learn command line to be truly effective. Your computer IQ is about to go up substantially.
 
I did it years ago with a PC I built. Of course you'll run into issues when you first start experimenting, but the thing with Linux is that it's really easy to fix any issue you encounter. Right now I run Linux on my Chromebook alongside chrome os. But there are limitations since it's still in beta. I'd suggest using an old PC or laptop to start of with. Dual boot with Windows and see how you like it.
 
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I used an old Toshiba satellite laptop from 2005 to run Ubuntu on it and I run also Tails on another PC from 2010
 
I threw it on my y700 it runs pretty good but haven't got heavy yet.

I read a couple linux books but . Eed to really learn it by digging deep. Storing music. Movies, do umwnts and creating and moving files.

Ok see how it goes. My laptop came out 2016.
 
My laptop is an HP G6-1D01DX, that was purchased in 2012..
It has a 1.90 ghz AMD A4-3305m and 8 gigs of ram, upgraded from 4

I'm currently using Zorin OS after making a quick switch from Windows 7 ahead of the 2020 end of support.
I may give Windows 10 another try just out of curiousity but I'm only using this thing for Kodi and Youtube and may drop Lakka on it again.

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g0nbad real bad said:
Running it in a VM would give you the training wheels you need to get used to it, plus you could try different distros till you find one you like.
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I got kali linux and debian in a vm but networking problems and vm problems are common. I have a web server for learning in a vm. I use kali to try to learn hacking stuff. Since both are virtual machine I t.c s easier but the external computer to vm causes some issues.
 
Duece said:
My laptop is an HP G6-1D01DX, that was purchased in 2012..
It has a 1.90 ghz AMD A4-3305m and 8 gigs of ram, upgraded from 4

I'm currently using Zorin OS after making a quick switch from Windows 7 ahead of the 2020 end of support.
I may give Windows 10 another try just out of curiousity but I'm only using this thing for Kodi and Youtube and may drop Lakka on it again.

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Nice.... looks better than other distros.

I like linux lite slot but compatibility issues.
 
I took a liking to Elementary OS but my processor is weak as hell so I tend to stick with lighter OS
 
I use Ubuntu for all my day to day computing. It works well for things like email, word processing, basic graphic and sound manipulation.

My laptop is an old Acer that I used to use for DJing. Ubuntu worked far better than windows 7 reinstall did. Also much more secure.

If your new to Linux I would recommend either doing a dual boot or running it off a flash drive to start. That way you can get a sense of whether or not it'll work well for you.
 
I suggest starting with a dual boot install if its your first time doing Linux.

I'm running xubuntu full time on an older Dell i5 with 8gb ram. It's amazing how much faster it is compared to win10.

It will take some adjustment tho.

Most start with Ubuntu which is the most popular.


Google is your friend. When you need a software or driver or something google "____ ubuntu".
Can usually find some pretty straight forward directions to get you going.

Some games are still not compatible. I still go over to the Windows side from time to time. Usually just for games.

For what it's worth, I also code on this machine. So I have node, docker, vscode running all the time and it works great.

Docker on the win10 boot on this machine brings it down to it's knees.
 
BlkStrength said:
I suggest starting with a dual boot install if its your first time doing Linux.

I'm running xubuntu full time on an older Dell i5 with 8gb ram. It's amazing how much faster it is compared to win10.

It will take some adjustment tho.

Most start with Ubuntu which is the most popular.


Google is your friend. When you need a software or driver or something google "____ ubuntu".
Can usually find some pretty straight forward directions to get you going.

Some games are still not compatible. I still go over to the Windows side from time to time. Usually just for games.

For what it's worth, I also code on this machine. So I have node, docker, vscode running all the time and it works great.

Docker on the win10 boot on this machine brings it down to it's knees.
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Ubuntu suffered that privacy flap and they have not recovered in the eyes of many in the open source community. It is still used to convert the Windows folks.
Around 2004, I recommended Ubuntu to noobs but I had to stop...
 
Running and Ubuntu Virtual Machine on a Thinkpad (TSeries obviuosly). I wouldn't recommend anyone to move to lunix 100% cause damn thing would be break unexpectedly and you'd spend your entire weekend trying to fix things.

With a virtual machine you can copy your settings and start again without problems.
 
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I still use Windows 7 for my laptop, but I’m Linux Mint on my servers. One for media and the other is for weather work.
 
Hello no. I tried so many different linux distros and all of them are lacking. I am running Windows 10 Pro on all of my client machines and Windows Server 2016 Essential on my Server.
 
Quek9 said:
Hello no. I tried so many different linux distros and all of them are lacking. I am running Windows 10 Pro on all of my client machines and Windows Server 2016 Essential on my Server.
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On a server!:eek2:

To each, their own, but that was the first time I heard anyone actually recommended Windows Server over any OSS bundle.
 

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