Looking to make the switch - Advice? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by FarrellPerks@feddit.uk to c/linux@programming.dev

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Afternoon all.

I'm looking to make the switch away from Windows, and I wondered if people had any advice, distro suggestions and so on.

My main use cases for my PC are Gaming, Writing and Image editing. Things I'd love to have working are all my games, Epic, Steam, GoG and Game pass. I already use OpenOffice so I'm probably fine with that. And I currently use Photoshop, so a good alternative for that would be good. Finally Spotify, Discord and VPNs etc

Any and all help and suggestions would be welcomed, thanks in advance.

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[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 points 15 hours ago

I ended up sticking my windows NVMe in an external enclosure so I can still boot from it, if needed. You just have to change a couple registry keys first, so it loads the USB driver earlier in boot to allow it to boot off of an external drive.

I can even boot the drive as a VM using QEMU for something quick. You just had to be careful, you don't accidentally mount the drive at the same time QEMU is using it.

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