I'm going to give it a shot I think, will make backups of everything including Windows and I'm not going to try and force myself into Linux. However I will set myself some goals. I really like the look of Nobara because it was developed by Glorious Egg Roll and seems to be developed purpose built for gaming rather than some neckbeards slapping together various bits and claiming it's supported as is often the case unfortunately when it comes to open source then bitching at people who have the audacity to use it for gaming as advertised.
What sold me completely on Nobara was how easy the driver setup process was because that's something that completely drove me mad. Inevitably if you're just a simple end user very easy to cock up and you won't know if it's been done correctly or not. You've installed the wrong version of Nvidia driver desktop such and such 0.0551.4123.1313 now go back again. Yes I'm exaggerating but that's still very much what it's like sometimes.
Don't get any of that with Nobara, it detects your hardware plonks you into the update and lets you download what you need which is an absolute joy. Got my USB sticks now will be giving it a shot and if there are any special steps I have to do it I'll post them. The joke is my work related stuff should work fine out of the box but we'll see what happens.
Checklist tasks when installation done
. Remove password protection ( Never liked that feature, not relevant for me )
. Get brave running with previous bookmarks and passwords
. Install DeadBeef
. Install Nvidia drivers
. Play one very common mainstream game
. Render a backed up scene in Blender cycles
. Run Godot By The Gods project and playtest
. Record by the gods gameplay in OBS
. Sail the high seas and run a game
. See if Morrowind/New Vegas will run?
SIGH
'common interrupt no irq handler for vector'
Linux mint it is because I know that worked for me last time and quite comfortably for the desktop environment at least. Guess I'm fucking with the nvidia drivers manually and running through tutorials. I may scout around for other gaming distros though before I resort to that.
I used two different USB flash whatever software by the way, I did the recommended BalenaEtcher and then I tried Rufus out of curiosity.
If it's not actually causing any issues, you can probably just ignore that one. It's a reasonably common error message with a dozen different causes, but rarely an issue in itself. I swear half the point of Linux is to expose issues that every OS has, just to give hyper autists something to spend their time on.
Nobara broke completely I managed to get Kubuntu up and running but it was corrupted somehow so I think this is to do with how I've set up my USB. Running theory is it is write protected and not using the correct format or something as a result because it couldn't be changed by the flash software or it couldn't simply write certain files.
Edit: Nope, looks like the corruption is happening somewhere else potentially, will experiment.
Edit 2: Also worth noting on Kubuntu I had an installation error that definitely broke things.
Sorry to hear it caused issues for you. You can btw validate any ISO you download and you probably should. Etcher will not help you on that, it just writes it on the USB. Also be sure to not use an old USB, I learned this the hard way myself before.
Thanks, at least I know it's not just me that runs into issues with Linux every time I seem to have the most ridiculous luck while everyone else does fine. I just spent the better part of a few hours trying to rid myself of the damned grub boot manager that comes with Linux.
That thing is so fucking bizarre it almost acted like it was rootkit and just wouldn't fuck off until I started rage deleting all the volumes on my SSD properly. I think it's gone now but holy fuck that was annoying. I did not appreciate how much it borked Windows and interfered with the boot process because of course Windows itself didn't appreciate grub's existence either.