No. I've done it a few times and not had a problem. There is, however, potential for it to go wrong. it's good practice to back-up precious data first.
As long as there's enough free space then the installer can shuffle around data as it creates a new partition with a new file system, and bit by bit increase the size of the new one as it moves data off the old one
Linux is already more popular than ever before, people should advocate developers of apps (like Quicken) to make official Linux versions.
It's a positive feedback loop: the more devs make Linux versions, the more people are willing to switch to Linux, which convinces more devs to make Linux versions
That’s somewhat idealistic. Quicken isn’t going to go through all the effort to build a fully featured Linux version for the 20 people who care. They barely tolerate maintaining their Mac version and it’s nowhere near as feature rich as the Windows version…
Um, sounds beneficial but what if you have expensive software loaded that is looking for Win11? I'm thinking music software like DAWs and VST plugins etc. Will the drivers remain?
There are folks in the music industry trying to work with Linux in music.
But the major DAW developers usually won't specify their product to work on Linux, but some do I believe, but that's just pot luck.
Plug In apps would be more picky. Unless they see a driver they won't open.
bitwig is one of the major DAWs in my book, and it has a linux version. even more so, you can run it on any OS with a JVM, even openbsd because it's written in java
The Linux jokes exist for a reason. Don't deny them. Embrace them. That's the only way to get people to trust Linux.
You can't tell people it's all rainbows and butterflies, and at the same time tell people to use vim without teaching them how to properly exit it. Who thought that's a good idea?
Oh yeah, this is good. I wonder if there's some way to like, hook the shutdown process on windows, so that custom code can be run after C: has been unmounted (or whatever they call mounting in windowsland)
I was thinking hooking into the power management driver and intercept the shutdown command (is the kernel security measures still running at this point?)
A couple I own. Cost of biz these days otherwise. You and I both know that your box can't produce an acceptable product for industry because of standards, like a print house that goes ape because the input is CorelDraw instead of Illustrator. Is what is.
Just thinking of this engineer on YouTube who did a comparison of SolidWorks and FreeCAD, and admitted in passing that he had used FreeCAD for some paid work.
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"I'm liking this Linux thing, except for one thing: How do I sync MP3 or M4A music onto my iPhone? iTunes doesn't sync anymore. The libimobiledevice thing put files onto my phone; now how do I get the files into Apple Music's library so I can put them in a playlist with music from my family plan?"
Does Syncthing put music into the Apple Music library or only into files? My roommate has both an Apple Music subscription and loose files purchased from an artist who isn't represented by a label on Apple Music.
Agreed, although I just tried out Ubuntu Cinnamon last week and have been really impressed with it so far. It combines Mint’s Cinnamon version with Ubuntu to give it some additional functionality.
I remember a loooong time ago, late 90s I think, someone (probably on bugtraq) proposing a "malware" that was basically a Morris worm, delivering a PatchMyPC type payload... 😜
You’d probably be stopped by KPP/PatchGuard before you’re able to override the kernel in-memory with the initramfs + Linux kernel. My guess is that you’d also have some funky behavior with hardware initialization whatnot since you’d be bypassing UEFI entirely.
I really don't care what os I run. I care about the applications that I run. And the ones I run only run on windows and substitutes aren't available on Linux. Ofc, I could run a VM, but why would I run Linux to run a windows VM to run my apps?
I think I already addressed that in my post? Why add a layer of complexity for no good reason? Fwiw, I run a Linux VM on my Windows machine, because I like to tinker with it. But I use ssh to get into it and we're talking Linux On The Desktop here, so that probably doesn't count :)
Oh, I thought they were VMs. Anyway, what's keeping me on windows is games and I can't imagine running them on Wine or Proton is going to be without problems?
If you’re running WLS2 (which I find excellent - Ubuntu & Fedora at the same time!) you’re already running hyper-v, you may as well just use hyper-v VMs unless you have a specific need for virtual box.
That "malware" got into our household last year. 7 hardware devices, just two still have Windows on them. It's proving to be a struggle removing the bloatware from the other half's NUC but, on the bright side, she's been showing a lot of interest in my Linux Mint lately...
This does that but with nixos over an existing Linux distro, I'd imagine it'd be a bit more difficult to do that with windows but probably not impossible
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If you come up with a better solution that is feature-compatible I’m willing to listen. 😀
It's a positive feedback loop: the more devs make Linux versions, the more people are willing to switch to Linux, which convinces more devs to make Linux versions
For now Parallels+Win11 is the solution.
But the major DAW developers usually won't specify their product to work on Linux, but some do I believe, but that's just pot luck.
Plug In apps would be more picky. Unless they see a driver they won't open.
But: heavily customised. You can't just log in and install your favourite apps.
There's a way to go before you can run a live gig off mainstream Linux and be sure you won't hear underruns etc.
Then you could remove the quotes from the word malware.
People will hate Linux even more. But they couldn't complain, because they have no internet. Sounds typical for a Linux install.
You can't tell people it's all rainbows and butterflies, and at the same time tell people to use vim without teaching them how to properly exit it. Who thought that's a good idea?
Linux isn't perfect.
But so isn't Windows.
Or OSX.
They all suck in one way or another.
The amount of times I needed to re-download them on some other PC that had internet, because I forgot it was a thing is embarrassing.
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Bonus points if it installs a skin to make it look like a new version of windows. "Welcome to windows 12"
.....aaaand once that Holy War ends it's bound to be the year of Linux on the Desktop.
Where can I get it?
Proton
Apparently my devices can't cope with windows 11 so I should have bought a whole bunch of new hardware, fuck that, Zorin to the rescue.
https://antixlinux.com/download/
If it's the opposite I'll definitely study malware with the intent of messing with you in particular.
Make two accounts. One with admin level and the other common person no special abilities.
Windows is the only OS with a half life. I don't even remember the last time I had to format a drive and reinstall my OS... But I run Linux. 😏
This does that but with nixos over an existing Linux distro, I'd imagine it'd be a bit more difficult to do that with windows but probably not impossible