Same I run the flatpak app on fedora workstation 42 with zero issues.

Has that ever happened across drives? Without user error?

Every Linux distro I’ve ever used has been pretty damn specific about where it installs boot, and respectful of all other drives and boot loaders.

I’ll concede defeat, but I find your claim hard to believe.

Lots of good advice here. I’ll add a bit about dual booting.

1. the problem with dual booting is when you use the same physical hard drive. Windows doesn’t play nice sometimes on the same drive. Just do yourself a favor and buy a second ssd. Then you can break linux six ways to Sunday and always have a windows backup. (And if you want to be extra safe - you can just unplug your windows drive during Linux install and you can’t f up and pick the wrong drive by accident)

2. dual booting is nice just in case something doesn’t work - you can easily switch back to windows.

3. dual booting sucks because there’s very few things that don’t work in Linux - it just requires a little elbow grease to figure out. But having a windows partition right there leads to many people giving up way too early with fixing their issues.

My recommendation is always to have more than one drive in your computer. It’s YOUR computer. Regardless of what you pick as your “main” OS, you always have another spot to screw around in. Distro hop, extra storage, set up a hiveos miner, whatever. Its flexibility and screwing around with other things helps you understand what’s YOUR computer vs what is Microsoft’s OS.

LOL

I’ve been using it that long too, and I suppose you’re right.

• Reads this on his iOS phone
• While playing modern games on fedora workstation 42
• While all my backups and containers run on a synology nas
• with a literal blank 2nd hard drive that used to have windows 10 on it but now has nothing
• while his computer illiterate wife uses her hp laptop just fine with linux

Ya… Go f yourself Microsoft. You used to be the cool kid in town. Now you’re trash.

I bought a psvr2 for my ps5. It’s really impressive but has three major flaws.

1. it’s too hot. It seals against your face with a rubber gasket and turns into a sweat machine.
2. vr in general causes motion/simulation sickness. Takes all the fun right out of the game.
3. there’s no games for it. Even the “good” games suck. Beat saber being the exception to the rule.

+1 this is the answer.

Ok this is interesting. I wasn’t aware flatpaks could update on their own. I thought it was either “flatpak update” OR the package manager gui helper kicked off flatpak updates. I’ll have to dig into this on fedora. I’ve been running arch/endeavor for so long, it never occurred to me fedora may be auto updating flatpaks.

I agree. I’ll check and report back tonight once I get home from work. It happens often enough, I might even be able to catch it in the act.

I agree that’s what it sounds like. Except I haven’t updated anything - or if something did update - it happened on its own.

Third for fedora. IMO the new “it just works” distro in place of Ubuntu - but a little more current than Debian.

Obligatory “learn to use your computer and install another OS” post. You’ll probably find that your computer becomes MORE useful, not less.