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planning to switch from windows 11 to Ubuntu on my laptop
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Dual booting with Windows and Linux on the same physical drive is risky as Windows has a reputation for breaking bootloaders. If you want to try things out safely, use Ventoy. It will also let you easily test drive multiple live images, if you want.
Give Fedora KDE a try. I wouldn’t recommend Ubuntu to anyone.
Fedora w/ kde was my first foray into linux and i can say it was a good place to start for a windows convertee. +1