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Any good step by step explainers nowadays? Been over a decade sinceI set my last Linux machine up for a friend, and have been thinking about trying one for a Jellyfish server.

Knowing that my gaming PC could get a few extra frames might intrruige me into performing the upgrade there too if the jellyfish machine goes well.

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odelik@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Most distros have a great getting started guide.

If you have an Nvidia card, make sure you’re looking at distros with Nvidia support and are using the correct installer version for Nvidia support. Some have both supported in the distro and require Grub modifications and I’d recommend avoiding those if you’re not comfortable doing that.

Some great distros to look into with above in mind:

PopOS Ubuntu Mint Fedora

As much as I thing it’s a great distro, and abstracts away a lot of the difficulties, Garuda Linux, should probabaly be avoid until you’re more comfortable with Linux due to its Arch roots (even if the docs are robust, they dive deep on tech concepts and require tons of requisite knowledge).

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- deeferg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Awesome, that’s some great leads especially with a Nvidia card.
  
  I’ll try and pick the easiest one without any grub work, I faintly remember my old school courses and have a faint reminder of hearing about grub. Didn’t sound like something to touch without the knowhow, Ill be careful.
  
  Thanks!
  
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pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I can help you through a fedora install, I just did it for the first two times myself. If you want to dual boot, it’s easiest to have windows set up first too, so you’re in good shape for that

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- deeferg@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Might take you up on that in a couple of months if I don’t feel like destroying the old gaming PC hahaha
  
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  - pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s what’s nice about dual booting! You can add a hard drive and use both! Easy to set up so you can choose to launch windows or Linux when it boots up! Gives you the opportunity to play around and get a feel for it without giving up your tried and tested setup!
    
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