On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 01:35:38AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch via talk wrote: > Hi all. > > This topic is one I hope will be on many peoples' minds as they encounter > frustration (and in some cases a dead end) moving their Windows 10 systems > to Windows 11. This may soon become the source of a multi-stakeholder > public campaign, but that's just in the planning stages. > > Now for the personal angle. > > Some ago I installed Windows on a desktop I use a lot. It replaced Linux > because that was incapable of running the one game I like playing. I even > gave a talk to GTALUG about that move, about Windows Subsystem for Linux > and the things I thought were better about the Windows desktop. > > Turns out I was wrong. So very, very wrong. And now I can't wait to go back > to my Linux desktop, especially since there's a recent LTS release of > Kubuntu, my traditional distro of choice. Plus, according to ProtonDB, my > game might just run well natively on Linux > <https://www.protondb.com/app/255710>! > > But it's been a long time since I've done this so I have some remedial > questions to ask from this group's wisdom ... to help me change from a > Windows install to a dual boot, priority Kubuntu: > > 1. My motherboard takes a single M.2 SSD for my one and only drive. I > have a larger M.2 card that I'd like to replace it with, cloning my > existing setup to the new drive (in a temporary USB enclosure) then > installing and shrinking the Windows partition in anticipation of the Linux > dual-boot install. Can anyone recommend a good tool for doing the disk > clone? Or am I better off to just fresh-install Windows on the new drive, > and restore my data from the old one? > > 2. I want to have one partition for data that is visible regardless if I > boot Linux or Windows. Previously the most reliable filesystem readable by > bothwas FAT32. Should I still do that? Is Linux support for NTFS good > enough now? Even better, can Windows be taught to read ext4? > > 3. I've never used snap or flatpack before. Others have told me to > install as much native (ie, .deb packages) as possible, use flatpack when > it's the only option and uninstall snap. Any comments or caveats here? And > why did app installation sources become needlessly complex?
I have avoided them so far by not using a distribution with such silly additions. :) I think even Mint Linux based on Ubuntu has removed it. As for cloning and resizing, clonezilla should do the job well. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk