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Let me talk about one thing, installation: Installing and deinstalling programs is actually easier and cleaner then under Windows. Your Linux knows about literally many thousands of programs, how to install them, how to deinstall them and what dependecies they got. Under Windows, you usually download an installer for each and every program, let it run, it installs lots of DLLs you likely already have a dozen times on you PC elsewhere, ...
Under Linux, you do an [myinstallerprogram] install firefox or the like, and it does everything for you. Downloading, downloading all needed dependencies as well, installing. The same with say [myinstallerprogram] remove firefox. (The latter might or might not automatically remove uneeded dependencies.)
Now, wait, you don't want to use the command line. You can avoid it for many tasks, and that's fine. You won't be able to avoid it for all tasks, but as you seem to be using the command line under Windows as well from time to time, that should be fine as well.
But when you don't need the command line for most tasks, why is everybody throwing command lines at you? That's easy to answer: I can give you the installation line for Firefox on Debian (my system) without even thinking (it's "apt install firefox"). You can hardly do anything wrong with the line. If somethign goes wrong or seems strange, you can just copy and paste the reaction to me. On the other hand, telling someone how to do something with a GUI is hard, so much can go wrong, and a surprising amount of peopls is absolutely unable to tell you what went wrong if something goes wrong. (I heard "there was an error" from software developers(!) so many times...!) Additionally, as Linux is also about choice, there's not the one installation program, but as many as people felt they needed.
So, go use say Discover, it should be able to do all the installing you want. And for deinstallation, it shows you what it wants to deinstall with regards to all dependencies, so if you do basic reading, it can hardly go wrong.
Ah... Have fun with Linux!
Can't speak for Nobara, which I read is some kind of Fedora fork, while I never heard about before.
But I can give some hint about moving to Linux in common. Take your time. You do not have to switch from one day to the other a 100%. You could keep your Windows installation as a fail-safe in a dual-boot installation until you figure out how to use your (!) Linux system. Not one Linux installation is exactly like the other. A lot of tinkering and choosing your preferred methods and most liked programs to get that system the way you like it and it feels comfortable.
My own migration took me a few years, while I still keep my ole Windows 7 for games I really am not able to make them run with Linux. But with the great help of Steam and others I actually didn't start Windows for over a year now and so I could say that migration is finished. Although I still keep some other Linux distributions as a fail-safe if my own system doesn't cooperate...or I do not know how to fix it.
Best thing ever is to lean on your distributions community with your questions. Take a look on forums and discussions to learn how-to make best use of your OS and how you could fix things. It's a process to see your OS other way than kind of a 'delivered pizza' like Windows shows up like in comparison.
Lean on your #6, restore points. If anything does go wrong you are able to save a lot ot time with it. If Nobara doesn't have a similar system you could certainly install it.
If it comes to Steam install, I would not take the flatpak version, but take the Steam runtime or if thats not working the Steam native (which is the version adopted to your distribution but might have other incompatibilities). Flatpak is using different methods and we registered a lot of gaming issues with that.
ext(4) or btrfs
btrfs has cool features like subvolumes which can have different mount options, while being slower than ext4. If you plan on doing snapshots to restore your system more easily, btrfs is nice as timeshift will merely take a second for a snapshot, while ext4 will take some time, due to its limitations.
install/uninstall. It's always good to get comfortable with the terminal. However, if you use KDE Plasma, discover (the software center), it should do it just fine
For which version to install.
In most cases, you will install either flatpaks, or your distros native format. Flatpaks are more modern as they are distro independent and isolated/sandboxed. However, they're a bit slower than native formats and sandboxing CAN get you in troubles. However, this shouldn't be noticable if the package maintainer sets proper permissions out of the box.
Android on desktop. Waydroid is cool. However, make sure you desktop environment uses Wayland. This limits your possible Desktop environments to GNOME and KDE Plasma.
msi afterburner. If you want an overlay for your apps. use Mangohud.
Have fun
It does easier to pinpoint where stuff goes wrong with terminal methods since there's log. I guess I'm way to comfortable with how windows work with GUI.
Noted, thanks.
I heard some mixed things about dual-boot. I might consider doing that.
Noted, I'll search around for this. Thanks
Ahh, it's good for restore point. I'll consider that option. And Timeshift is the program to do that? I'll look it up, thanks.
So it depends, alright thanks for clarifying.
so there's, thanks, I'll check it out.
I don't really use overlay but nice addition, I saw in video that Nobara already include it in the install.
Well, maybe do, but before that think about getting rid of some old habbits, some having to do with Windows, and some which I wouldn't do on Windows either.
Don't try to solve problems you haven't got.
* I'm never monitoring my network speed. It's fine.
* I'm not resetting the networks stack. Ok, you seem to have some problems there, but I'd first wait if they also occur on Linux. Mind that Linux is used on many, many routers and such - it should be able to cope with shaky network on its own!
* I don't use a firewall. Services should be either not provided at all (a closed port is a safe port), or be safe. Linux helps you with this by keeping all your programs which you installed with your package manager up-to-date at once.
* I never ever needed a restore point in 24 years of Linux. I'm not saying you shouldn't care for backup (you should!) or even restore points, but don't be too afraid.
* I never ever used anti virus on Linux. Don't download and execute strange stuff, keep your system up-to-date, that's safe enough.
* I didn't defrag anything for... dunno, decades. Wikipedia says ext file systems are made so fragmentation will be minimal. Again: If you don't have a problem, don't try to solve it. There is a defragmentation program for ext4, but I recommend not to use it and play games in the time instead.
Sadly, I experience somewhat frequent internet outage. More often than not, access to website breaks. Which happens just several days ago, as soon as Internet back up, some Steam page is broken. With netsh and ipconfig command I can load the page just fine. As for the other method is just to reinstall network driver, I don't know whether or not it will bricked Nobara completely.
That might not happen in Linux. But I'd rather know the command beforehand, so when it actually happen, I know which command to use.
That's true, but with custom firewall rule, I can block some apps that tends to run in the background eating limited bandwidth I have. Which ties to network monitor that way I can find the problematic program, set a rule and forget about it.
While yes, some apps have option to turn off background usage. But other don't. This others that I try to block with firewall.
In the past 3 years, I've experience at least 5 BSoD, maybe it's because the programs I use, maybe because my outdated hardware, or maybe other factor I don't know about. But in that BSoD, I lost some data, using restore point help to recover some, although some still lost.
Yeah, common sense is the most powerful anti-virus. But at the same time, I often forgot. AV or AM could at least minimize the chance of infection.
This is a habit that I might be able to stop. Just some placebo effect, in my mind defrag will help with HDD life span.
I've been daily driving Arch Linux for a bit over a year now. I've only switched to tumbleweed and Fedora Silverblue 2 times as an experiment, but i didn't like it.
But still, even Arch Linux, which is often called very intensive to maintain, falling apart every month and whatnot. Is very damn stable. As long as you don't try to go for stupid experiments which might break something, it's rock solid.
Even the GRUB incedent was technically speaking never GRUB's problem, as this was caused by a version missmatch between the bootloader in place and it's config.
sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
sudo systemctl restart network
While I'm not doing that stuff, just light gaming and document related, stuff might break. Be it my own fault/lack of knowledge/hardware related/incompatible stuff or any other factor.
I don't expect it to be working right of the get go. Since live mode might work flawlessly but post-install might break.
There's documentation on how to in Fedora (since Nobara based on it) and KDE (DE I'm using) which cover some basic, but using so many word I don't understand, term I don't know about. And some stuff I listed have to be done using some third-party methods/apps, some not built-in by default.
Ahh, it might be something I'll see once I install Nobara, since Live Mode only show, Start Nobara or Test the media, in the Grub Menu thing.
Thanks!!! I'll note it down!
You don't need NOBARA for that, it's available on ANY linux distro that supports Steam, very easily. There is even an app called ProtonUP-QT that automates the process of fetching GE-Proton and placing it in the correct folder, and updating it for you later too.
"I want NOBARA because I'm a total noob"
maybe try Linux Mint too, it's been regarded as an awesome distro for noobs for quite a while
https://linuxmint.com/
Check the install guide (sometimes useful even if you end up opting for other distros):
https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
8- "antivirus"
you really don't need it, just install apps from the official repos as much as possible instead of random websites, keep the OS updated (which will keep apps updated too for you, all at once and is totally painless unlike on windows where it's a PITA)
9- "monitor CPU and GPU stuff and tweak fan curves"
13- for fonts:
install and run "ttf-mscorefonts-installer" from the terminal... not sure if this is the exact package name on NOBARA though
afaik linux can handle windows font formats like ".ttf" reasonably, if you need them to be the same copy them over manually
finding free and opensource fonts online is not a big issue if you need a wide variety and there is no hard requirement for them being the same as on windows, but professional typography might be a little bit trickier, not sure
for app replacement suggestions check https://alternativeto.net/
12- defrag
it's for Ubuntu, but you can check if you have the same app on NOBARA:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/221079/how-to-defrag-an-ext4-filesystem
ps: you might not have have e4defrag from the most accepted answer, but you'll most certainly have Gparted from another answer
14- If you want to use Steam without issues, better stick to EXT4
14c- yes, you can set a root ("/") partition in one place and the user home ("/home/" where there will be a subfolder for each username) in a separate place (disk/partition) when setting things up... you can even change this later but it's tricky
not sure about NOBARA, but for Linux Mint I don't usually see the disk space used outside the user "home" folder getting over 60GB... I would give it a comfortable 120GB if possible without sacrificing much of the user partition, just so it doesn't unexpectedly becomes an issue a long time from now
do keep in mind, reinstalling Linux from scratch is waaaaay easier than windows:
a) you can have a liveboot usb always at hand so you can comfortably move files around, test your hardware from a clean setup and fix things even after something goes caput on the main system, restore backups and system images, defrag, recover deleted data, etc... you can even surf the web to look up your issue on the spot, inspect system logs for error messages and a bunch of other cool tricks
windows gives you that useless windows recovery which honestly I never saw being successful at recovering anything, instead of a full secondary OS, so it might be hard to wrap your mind around how much better of a safety net this is until you use it
b) your software configs (and even a lot of OS configs) are stored in files in your user home folder, so you can reinstall the OS, then reinstall the apps and copy the home folder back in place... and then the next time you open an app it should already be configured exactly as on the previous system!
ps: This also allows you to quickly clone configs for your apps from system A to system B, or point two linux systems at the same user folder.
A virus works by writing it's code into other programs.
System programs on Linux can't be written to as easily as on Windows. This means that any virus will be isolated to your user directory and easily wiped. The word processors for Linux have better limitations on macro functions to prevent macro-viruses. Macros cannot code macros into other documents without user permission, nor can they write to disk other than through the proper open/save dialogues.
Your main sources of programs (distro repositories) are seen.
There is ClamAV for anti-virus for Linux, but it is more for scanning things that would allow a Linux computer to be a relay station to infect a Windows computer, for instance a Linux Email server or file server to scan incoming files. Hence 99% of the viruses in it's database are Windows viruses.
Even anti-cheat software on Linux is installed on a user level, preventing it from being used as an exploit base (like it so often is.)
Additionally, Linux distros are much faster at patching major security vulnerabilities viruses use. The average patch time from discovery to patching is under 2 weeks for Linux applications, while it is over 3 months for Windows applications.
Given my spec, I take every single chance to have more performance improvement.
Yep I consider that, if I still can't get Nobara to work, especially with network monitor. Mint is will be the go to.
Alright I'll try to stick to official repo, thanks.
Didn't realize there's already thread for it. Thanks!
Thanks! This will save my docs!
I don't need advanced font. Just standard one, that I learnt some only available for Microsoft.
Noted, thanks for the link!
Thanks! whenever I search, the result usually say Linux don't need defrag tool.
Ahh, Steam have some issue with btrfs? I'll consider ext thanks.
Noted, I'll roughly set to that.
Didn't know that, I thought live usb only meant to test compatibility out. Good to know, thanks.
Really? This will be handy if there's hard crashes. Thanks!
I only understand some of it, but thanks now I somewhat understand the reason.
So there's one thanks! This will be useful scanning infected docs, pdf and images just to be safe.
After installing Linux, I won't be playing online game with anti-cheat (especially kernel type) knowing they often don't work, or need some tinkering to get it working.
The KDE system monitor can be customized to contain any number of things by adding additional pages. This includes network timing and a bunch of other stuff.
I have mine set to have dedicated pages view detailed CPU/GPU thermals and usage.
Unfortunately it does feed CPU clocks off of the CPU Frequency management so it doesn't show the boost clock, only the clock speed set by the kernel.
It can also support a massive amount of network information if you wanted it.
Just remember, the sensors listing doesn't distinguish working from non-working sensors. For instance, a good number of my sensors read -1 degrees because they aren't hooked to anything on my motherboard.
So I don't need 3rd-party apps to see like address, net speed and latency? Noted thanks.
Ahh false flag? this would be troublesome for paranoid people like me lol.