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Felix Urbasik

I'm so happy. When I introduced my wife to Linux Mint a couple weeks ago I thought she might take a good look at it and then keep using Windows. Which would've been fine.

But to my surprise, she's actually giving it a fair change to use it daily! I created a little penguin icon on her Windows desktop labelled "Reboot to Linux", using a handy tool called Bootnext¹. This way, she doesn't have to mess with boot managers.

There has been surprinsingly little issues. If you're curios, I will list them briefly in the next post.

¹https://github.com/TensorWorks/bootnext

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fell@ma.fellr.net

Felix Urbasik

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So, here's the issues she ran into in no particular order:

- Heavy tearing in games (resolved by setting "Force Composition Pipeline" in NVIDIA settings)
- Discord screen sharing doesn't support audio on Linux (worked around by using Vesktop)
- Slightly degraded performance in VRChat desktop mode
- Initial confusions about the directory structure

That's about it.

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fell@ma.fellr.net

Felix Urbasik

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@bdiederik I personally think a "Reboot to ..." shortcut is better than a boot menu with a timeout.

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pavel

Pavel Machek

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@fell @bdiederik "Reboot to..." is great when it works. Working boot menu is still useful when things go wrong.
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