There is an alternative for dual booting. Use 2 separate disks. Install linux on one, remove that disk. Install windows on the remaining disk. Reinstall the first disk. Start the computer. In the bios select the standard start up drive (the linux one in this case), and select the windows disk as the second drive. Save bios. now for starting linux start the PC normally. For windows go to bios and select the windows disk as the start up disk. This method is more work but it eliminates a number of the risks of working with a dual boot system
Ehhhh just got a Thinkpad X1 Yoga Gen 8 for my college studies this Fall. Underrated device. I like the idea of a built-in pen you can draw on and a flip option for closer viewing and other utilities. It really adds to the laptop. Got the last X1 Yoga off Lenovo's website just the day they replaced it with the new Gen 9, luckily I went with the 4K OLED option. i5 intel since it was U series anyways, and the 16GB RAM since it is good enough (not a power-user device anyways). Sadly Gen 9 is a downgrade in many aspects, notably the downgrade to a 2.8K OLED option. I am picky when it comes to screen quality since I will stare at it a lot. Anyways. I am gonna upgrade the SSD to 2 TB once it arrives. Saving myself like $1500 replacing the SSD myself lol Hopefully it will last a long time, and that the fans will be silent for most uses.
Bloody hell… just checked ProtonDB to see if all my games would run and sure enough they all have high ratings (Gold+). When I finally half to update my OS (still currently on Windows 10) I might just move on over to Linux… I am willing to learn how to work this OS if it means I don’t half to deal with the recent BS Microsoft is doing.
In my experience, both the trackpad and the speaker's volume issues are fixable. For the trackpad you have to update the firmware, and for the volume you have to adjust in alsamixer.
how come no one mentions that the gamma default setting is 1.0 on linux and 2.20 on windows? it significantly makes the screen darker. I couldn't understand why linux looked so different until I finally found out this on my own.
Microsoft is the worst company on earth... Even windows 10 is practically spyware and its supposed to get even worse. Wish I could go back in time and tell my 10 year old self not to create a hotmail account, now my whole life is bound to it ugh
here is a thing to know before switching to linux... DONT you dont need to, just debloat windows or find a script that runs while installing windows to delete all of the unnecessary shit if you neded production just us auto unattend from github it will make windows 11 run better if you are a code monkey guess what you can make code to fix windows and make it better, if ur a gamer linux will cuck you because it only runs like 30% of the games that windows has all that and it has no anti virus man, so there it is, that is what you need to know before installing linux
I'm just starting with Mint and nothing works. Can't change my screen resolution, no audio, no wi-fi, will not restart properly, will not shut down properly. I have watched hours of videos, and read a bunch of guides. Nothing has helped.
Correction at 4:00 official U-Boot bootloader as firmware does support EFI generic riscv64 targets (Alpine, Arch, Debian, OpenWrt, SuSE, Ubuntu, ...); the custom-modified U-Boot preloaded by StarFive however just doesn't seem to work with anything normal. Updating to offficial U-Boot is simple using an UART serial cable but you will need to build for yourself or locate a build of U-Boot 2024.07 or newer.
The scariest thingls was when I switched to Linux the filesystem and the bootloader (on that time LILO) 25 years ago. It was not an easy switch but it absolutely worth it
What new users need to know about Linux is abandon all hope ye who enter here. Running Linux will melt your mind and curve your spine! But enough about the positives. Oh and everything this GNU guy said is a lie.
Not a mobile chip, but the SG2380 will bring desktop class performance. 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores and a NPU. Milk-V Oasis with this chip is expected to be released by the end of this year.
You don't need a wayland version of gnome to install sway at all... You can just install sway, it is completely separate. Also, you don't need to guess whether a GPU driver is in use, just check it using glxgears or glmark or other tools.
What I meant was I figured sway would work well because it was using the Wayland version of GNOME by default, maybe I worded something wrong, but I wasn't trying to infer that GNOME and sway were related. Thanks for mentioning glxgears and glmark though, I honestly feel quite stupid for overlooking that haha.
@@gnulectures sorry if it was a bit sour, I thought you were another youtuber that reviews "tech stuff" without even rudimentary background (but you clearly are not one of those)
You bring up a good point. Maybe I misworded something, but my intention wasn't to say RISC-V is a competitor to Intel/AMD or that RISC-V isn't a competitor to ARM, it was to simply distinguish that RISC-V is more like ARM than Intel/AMD because it's RISC rather than CISC. Edit: I think you might be referring to the thumbnail. I've changed it now but it might take some time to update.
IDK, ARM is a competitor to Intel, with Snapdragon now making PC ARM CPUs. Intel, ARM, RiscV have competing ISAs and Snapdragon, AMD, Intel, & StarFive have competing CPUs.
i dual boot my computers singe a long time,and this is what i would recommend for every pc user. people just have to be carefull when partitioning their harddrive ;) the only thing, that can be remotely seen as a problem is, when people want to have a shared partition for personal data. windows likes to lock all harddrives, it can find. it took my a 5 minute google research to find out how to prevent this from happend. no real problem! dual boot your computers, and enjoy your new freedom :)
Store information out of your drive. Some (in my experience almost all) are problematic to recover data, problematic to read data (due to different ext3 ext4 ntfs xfr partition) So made proper backup And keep updating it
Yeah …. Linux is great and pretty, until you spend days trying to get shit to work….for complex machines with biometrics and hybrid graphics, it is a large pain in the butt. Zorin for example doesn’t know how to switch between integrated and dedicated graphics…
