Yeah, thereās slowness for demanding software, and some Microsoft products donāt work well or at all. Iād have to find new processes for a number of tasks.
Looks like the easiest way to to check out the environment is WSL - itās unstable, so not too much, keep things synced and backed-up.
My laptop came a week ago but I couldnāt pick it up until yesterday. Finally got it together and it is great! It runs great, was easy to put together, and works out of the box basically with linux mint edge. Havenāt really used it much, so donāt know how it performs with games yet.
So far the issues Iām coming across are:
The macropad is blindingly bright upon startup. Kind of wish they used diffusers, but thereās a lot of customization available for it, so not a big deal.
The touchpad is slightly raised compared to the spacers.
The ethernet expansion card is UGLY. Itās large and chunky. Itās also see through since itās covered with clearish plastic. Not really sure about the design choice for this one tbhā¦ Some people might find it cool?
Other than those things, the laptop has been everything that I expected. Now the only issue for me specifically is trying to learn how Linux works. Iām struggling hard, but I did want to learn this, so Iām going to try sticking with Linux for as long as I can bear.
Hi, sorry for the slow response, Iām actually a batch 20 person but was reading around. As someone that has dual booted Windows and Linux for around 5 years, I find the claims from that source somewhat surprising. Especially since itās coming from a computer science deparment!
Dual booting is far less scary than it often seems, the main issue is that Windows tends not to play nicely with other operating systems that share the disk with it. The main recommendation I would give is to have separate boot partitions for Windows and other OSes, then use your BIOS to choose which OS to boot. Iād guess most aforementioned issues with corruption of boot environments stems from trying to have Windows play nice on a shared boot partition.
The only other recommendation that hasnāt already been mentioned by others is to install Windows first, then Linux second. As Windows tends to just eat the other OS when installed (again it really doesnāt play nice with other OSes even if the other OSes are also Windows).
The only souvenir I have from dual booting (15 years ago mind you) is that indeed, sometimes after a windows update, linux wouldnāt boot anymore. That and I would often resolve to boot directly into Windows and so I wouldnāt really make the 100% switch. Rebooting to use a program on windows and then rebooting again to go back to the āmainā OS was time consumingā¦