Clickbaited by a Lemmy post title... How far have I fallen...
Good for you, tho!
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That was my experience as well. 2 hard drives, so I thought, why not dual boot? Surely, I'd need windows for some reason or another.
6 months later, I realized the same thing - I have a 1 TB drive doing nothing. I nuked it and never looked back.
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NGL I also have a depression sub in my feed and between this title and “Does it get better?”, this sub has a habit of throwing me for a loop. 0_0;
Straight from Windows to Hyperland? That’s wild!
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I switched my last windows device to cachy os, and chose the plasma desktop. Not only does it look pretty, but all my games work great! Windows is no longer needed, suffice it to say.
That feeling when you realize windows hasn't booted fo half a year and has kinda just there for no reason with like 20 updates in queue.
I did almost the exact same thing, on the same timeline! Installed Bazzite on a second NVMe sometime in the spring, and it's been my daily driver for months now. For the first couple months I was swapping back and forth due to some graphics driver instability, but that's because I got a 9070XT at launch and it took a bit for the Linux drivers to get to where they needed to be. That's pretty much sorted now though, and I can't remember the last time I booted into Windows.
Guess who just gained a 1TB drive to install more games?
I might use mine to try other distros. Bazzite has been great so far, but I'm not sure I'm sold on immutability and I might try a non-Fedora based distro.
I've kinda been putting off switching to Linux until the steam OS goes to desktops more officially, since it's pretty close to just being used as a gaming rig, but I'm running out of patience. I had Ubuntu for a while like 15 years ago.
How are the drivers for a 1060 GPU?
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That's basically what happened to me when I switched after W7 went EOL. I set it up to dual boot, but I realized I never actually booted into Windows, so I deleted everything on that drive except files I wanted to keep, and just use it for storage.
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I would prefer to have it removed now but as an alternative you can just install games and stuff on it while windows still lives on it.
Theoretically you can boot proton games from both sides. I just have never needed to do so.
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I think I had my last windows install (Win98) on bare metal in somewhere between 1999-2002.
I tried to cope with Macs until 2004 or 2006. After that Gentoo... Damn it felt good. It was a rough start, but I kinda knew it back then.
I just gave my Linux partition 60Gb and I still have 53% free space.
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The problem for me is that there's nothing that properly replaces Rufus on Linux. That's the last reason I keep Windows.
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I'm unfortunately chained to my Windows install - a handful of Windows-only games I play with friends, and solidworks (I use a VM for it here and there but it's usually easier to just use Windows). When I first jumped to Linux, though, I accidentally broke my Windows install, so I was forced to get used to it for the first month or so.
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