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Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As someone who switched to Linux, and found reasons not to for literal decades, this has helped me:

Have a second ssd in your PC that is untarnished by the windows bootloader.

This way one can easily switch via BIOS / UEFI and no other annoying software.

Dual booting is also less annoying, if you switch via boot menu. It lets you test drive and configure Linux anytime you're in the headspace for it and reduces pressure on yourself.

Install linux on it. My current favorite for your situation would be Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Spin (what a mouthful). Have another exfat partitioned usb disk ready for file exchange with windows. Again, this makes handling windows easier, has nothing to do with linux.

Nvidia on fedora works good enough. third party repos also help a lot.

streamdeck is wonderful hardware, I know a friend who uses it daily with streamdeck_ui

same with GoXLR Configuration Utility. Software is there, the only question is does it work for you.

This is to my knowledge as close to "official" as you can get. Good luck on your journey!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

I'm starting to set up a dual boot and this helps me. I have a 1TB SSD with Windows, and later bought a 2TB SSD for games. I've shrunk the latter's partition so I can set up Linux, and I may reconfigure bios to make that the default boot device.