I dunno if this is the best approach to compeletely cut off your windows access? what if you need it for some unexpected critical reason? Would be a ball ache installing it again. I main Linux but I've kept my old windows install on it's own drive. I barely use it but very very occasionally I have (and it has just been for gaming but I got the game working in Linux in the end). It's Win 10 and I have no intention of "up"grading it to Win11.

I do actually have Win 11 set up to run in a KVM virtual machine from within Linux (I bought a Win11 key cheaply just for convenience with the activation nonsense tbh). I made the VM partly because I wanted to see how well it'd work as I like tinkering (it works fine, little bit laggy but does the job) and also to give me some easy access to the full MS Office suite in-case I want them and can't be arsed to go to my work device. I barely ever use it (2 times so far, both just to use full Powerpoint of web powerpoint). If you have your Win 10 license you could potentially do the something similar to avoid a total block should you ever need to access windows for something and wine doesn't cut it?

Linux gaming and selecting a non wayland distro seems an unusual choice. If gaming is your main usage, something with wayland and especially gamescope would be better. Beside that, welcome to the other side!

I'm addicted to .net, I need it to breathe

You can pay $30/year to continue using Windows 10, you know.

But honestly, give 11 a chance. It has really good HDR support (so much better than 10's, and Linux's HDR support can't even compare, it's so bad). Furthermore, the taskbar issues can be fixed by installing StartAllBack. Lastly, Microsoft is considering recalling Recall after all the backlash it got. So you still don't have to worry about that anytime soon.

Point I'm making is that if you have an HDR display, there's still plenty of good reasons to dual boot.

Y'all really choose hard mode for switching over. Having Windows on a partition sure is nice when a software requires it and wine doesn't support it.

Hey Congratulations! I just started my linux journey a couple years ago too, just the same way you did without any duelbooting! I'll share one thing I found out recently: apparently neofetch was abandoned by it's developer, and now is no longer maintained. instead, a lot of people suggest using fastfetch! it works the same except its faster and still maintained! otherwise I hope you continue to enjoy your linux journey, welcome to team penguin!

Yay, welcome to freedom! Glad it's working for you and feel free to ask for help here. Of course Linux Mint has its own forums where I've almost always found an answer already there whenever anything has come up for me, and it feels pretty friendly.

Enjoy!

Welcome and good luck. The community is large and we generally like to help each other.

GNU/Linux thank you very much

Welcome aboard! I did same like a year before, and it's been a blast!

If you were me from the past, I would've definitely recommended you to try out tiling WMs (Guess AwesomeWM is a good start) ASAP! I can't stress enough how good they're, especially if you prefer using keyboard shorcuts over mouse navigation.

Also, if you'll find linux mint problematic, I want to suggest you to try out EndeavourOS (i wish i would've done it sooner myself). It's installation is as simple, but it's based on arch, and arch has one of the most comprehensive wikis, which allows you to troubleshoot basically any problem. Also. newer software versions get there faster, and finally AURs, that will allow you to forget about manual software installation at all.

If you want to game on Linux check out protondb.com/ you can find what games work and even fixes. Also proton-ge works well, MangoHud for stats but it requires some config but you can use Goverlay to configure it a lot easier. Also of course read documentationarch wiki is the best but keep in mind it's for a different distro so paths might be different

One of us

omg you chose the wrong distro aaahahhhh~~~

Seriously, though, I'm glad you're enjoying the switch, hope you also enjoy the mandatory thigh-highs!

Your striped thigh-highs will be delivered in the mail within a month.

Hey I just wanted to share how I was able to get Marvel Rivals running, although I'm on a different distro it should work for you:

In the Launch options (right click game > properties > general tab) enter this:

SteamDeck=1 %command%

Then, it tricks the game into believing you are on steam deck, and it should run. If you want to disable the performance metrics, just press right shift+f12.

I'm a recent lifetime windows user to Linux but loving it! I've dual booted so I can still play stuff like fortnite/call of duty but surely those will come around as the user count climbs :)

Edit to add: I found this fix on protondb.com - you can usually find others posting helpful stuff there relating to any Linux game!