I can confirm M.2 to PCIe adapters work for booting Windows. Had both my Linux drive and Windows drive each in a separate one when I used to dual boot. Then I would swap out which adapter was in the computer to switch OS.
I haven’t plugged the Windows one in in a loooong time, but wanted to mention the option since it would do what you want.
I had a look at the support page for the mobo, and there is a BIOS update from Mar 11th. It contains a zip with a .F52q file inside. You should be able to use that file directly from a USB in the BIOS.
Which motherboard do you have? There is almost always a way to load from a flash drive via the BIOS. Many motherboards even have a way to do it from a flashdrive without the UI working at all via a button on the back (BIOS Flashback).
Unfortunately so is Visual Studio and VS Code, yet we don’t say anything made with them is ‘vibe coded’. The text, big and bold, right the top of the screen for VS Code is literally:
Visual Studio and VS Code have an AI assistant as well, yet we don’t decree all programs written with them as ‘vibe coding’. The presence of an AI assistant in the IDE isn’t evidence of vibe coding.
Proton’s repo here is open source. What portion of it presents issues? Any?
That seems perfectly fine to me.
If you measure it in minutes, it would be pretty easy. And measuring in miles also is pretty straightforward. Break out the measuring tool on your map of choice and write down how long your standard route is, any deviations you can guestimate quickly.
The nagging popups, ads, the dubious ad-riddled webpages I have to visit to download apps.
I still have to use Windows at work, and it advertising apps in the start menu and specific games to me with a notification popup in pro versions of the OS just blows my mind. This is a piece of software my company paid extra for, and it has ads all throughout…in a completely ‘clean’ install.
It’s even worse since I end up using VMs at work, so I get to experience this over and over on each machine.
Always nice to see more AMD laptops. Personally a fan of them as they work well for moderate gaming without a dedicated card.
Really wish Intel would get their chips up to snuff, simply because we really don’t want to just swap from one monopoly to another.
“Gaming Distro” just means some various gaming softwares are preinstalled, like Steam and Heroic (for GOG, Amazon, and Epic games). I mention this just to keep you from overly worrying about picking the “wrong” distro.
Bazzite is basically SteamOS.
Mint Cinnamon was my choice as it feels very familiar to a Windows user, and comes with a bunch of desktop productivity stuff pre-installed. It tends to remain on more time-tested, stable versions of software.
Fedora Plasma is also very popular, and will feel familiar coming from Windows. It tends to have the latest and greatest version of softwares.
and maybe a guide on removing windows entirely once its all said and done
If you plan to switch over all at once, during the install, tell Linux to use the entire drive (ie, do a full format). That will completely remove Windows during the install.
If you are going to dual boot, you can format the Windows drive at some later time.
do’s and dont’s
If you are going to dual boot, don’t dual boot on a single drive. Windows likes to fuck with other things on the same drive as it, including other Windows installs.
If you get a prompt about codecs during the Linux install, install them.
Yeah, it’s very unlikely it survived.
If you have your encryption key backed up, you have a chance to decrypt it still. It’s also possible, but unlikely, the key somehow survived the ISO write and it was written elsewhere on the drive, allowing the key to be recovered. I would only trust such with a professional. (There is basically a smaller encrypted section that your typed-in password decrypts, that section contains the encryption key the rest of the drive uses.)
Honestly though, if you have your stuff backed up (you do have your stuff backed up elsewhere?!?), just restore from your backup and call this a loss.
If you don’t have a backup, this was your wakeup call. Always have a backup going forward.
How to run something you don’t trust without performance lost?
A virtual machine is generally your best choice. You build a little box around it and tell it to have fun inside that box.
It doesn’t work well for games (you can do it with games, but it’s generally not worth it), but for smaller programs, it is a very reliable choice with minimal performance impact.
Things with admin privilege have access to everything. If it is only user-privileged, it only has access to what that user was granted access to.
Well, that is fair. Those anti-cheats are in user-land on not-windows. Don’t think I have given admin permissions to any game, including those with Easy Anti-Cheat, etc.
I’m still surprised Microsoft allows those to exist. Particularly for something as mundane as games.
steam games for example are nearly impossible to run without admin
What steam game requires admin permissions? I’m not aware of any games that require admin permissions.
I’m confused, OBS works well. What is missing you are desiring?
My suggestion: Raspberry Pi (or any other computer) connected via an HDMI port. Use any photo program of your choosing. Many, many available for linux.
Fucking around with TV OSes is a PITA and is best to just be avoided.
For the money angle, something like a Digital Ocean droplet would be appropriate here. They are $4/mo and you don’t even need to run the thing all the time, just when you need an app version approved.
Option 1: When you go to their website for the flathub link, it takes you to a download for a .flatpakref file. Dowload that and run it. It will open the Software Manager to the gopher64 entry. If it isn’t opening with the software manager for some reason, tell it to open .flatpakref files with the Software Manager.
Option 2: Search for gopher64 in the Software Manager.