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So I logged in to check and it told me it needs to download 8 gigs of updates. That sent me into rage and so clean installed everything to be fedora. I have 250 gb of storage locked in limbo because of windows

Sounds like you took your time, got comfortable, found a distro you liked, and generally did it all the right way. Now watch as with each new headline you see about Windows or MS you become happier and happier with your decision. There's no better advertisement for Linux than the behavior of MS and Windows. 😁

Congrats on dumping Windows. One of us! One of us!

Congrats, and welcome to the club!

I remember when I did the switch in 2008 and never looked back. I had a similar experience where across a few years I have been trying different distributions and finally settled on Lubuntu. Years have passed and different machines as well. Now my main driver is a Steam Deck with his Arch based OS and a secondary pure Arch on a sd card for more specific tasks.

Linux made my life more comfortable and relaxed, without even mentioning secure. My family uses Linux now, Windows is long dead.

We are free.

using bottles and proton ge

I don't think it'll make much of a difference, but according to the git repo, you should be using wine-ge instead. Also Lutris is another option that does the same thing, but has easy install scripts for GOG, Epic Games, Ubisoft Connect, and EA App.

Feels good to ditch Windows don't it?

Hell yeah! Welcome, from an admittedly also new full-time Linux user.

For anyone wondering what Proton GE is, it's Proton on steroids: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

For instance, even if you have an old Intel integrated GPU, chances are you can still benefit from AMD's FSR just by pushing a few flags to Proton GE, even if the game doesn't officially support it, and you'll literally get a free FPS boost (tested it for fun and can confirm on an Intel UHD Graphics 620).

My laptop is the same except, I keep a Windows partition because the RGB keyboard controller is only available in a Windows app. That Windows partition exists in a post apocalyptic dystopia where Windows belongs; it has never, nor will ever see the internet. It is blocked my my network firewall. Windows is like a less than useful bootloader options tab.

Congrats! Hope you keep having a great experience with linux 😁🐧

Not sure how Bottles and not buying games directly relate (other than Bottles also being able to play pirated games obviously), but anyway.

I switched to Linux on my main computer as a "New Year's Resolution" and so far I'm not missing much. I did cross-grade from an RTX 3080 to a Radeon 7800 XT because 95 % of the problems I experienced were related to Nvidia and their crappy drivers, but after that I had little issues in general.

I also use Fedora + KDE. KDE on Wayland seems to be the most reliable way to get VRR (FreeSync) working with multiple monitors. I installed it onto a new SSD I bought for this purpose, but I'll transition more and more SSDs over to the Linux install as time progresses. The only reason I booted into Windows again so far was to check out some application's configuration so I could replicate it on Fedora's side. I didn't even bother to install the Radeon GPU driver under Windows.

I could complain about smaller issues, but these are mostly related to third party software where the Linux version has some weird quirks (or where there's straight up no Linux version, mainly games).

Overall very solid and I assume it only gets better with time.

Also checkout Heroic Launcher, Epic gives free games every week, there's plenty of fun to have with those too.

so clean installed everything to be fedora.

It may not have been necessary to do a complete reinstall. If fedora uses LVM or BTRFS for your partitions (which it likely does) then you could have just formated the windows drive and added it to your "pool".

nice

i remember nuking my windows dual boot about 2 years ago

pretty similar story: i discovered almost all my games work with wine, so i didn't use windows for a few month. eventually i didn't see any point in keeping it around.

I got really close yesterday, I'm a gamer and it's just... ach... anyway... I'm so close. I clean installed Windows and Linux yesterday and designed my dual boot system around giving Windows as little space as was necessary (a small partition on the drive where I keep the OSs and a 500gb Nvme drive). That way I keep a little Windows and everything else is Linux. Other than Librewolf ('cause no flippin' way I'm using Edge) I'm only allowing games on there. No work, email, social media, just gaming.

Anyway, good on you for nuking Windows, I can see myself going full Linux in the not-too-distant future as so much is now working on Linux these days - and not just working, but working really well; some games I get a better experience than on Windows (Warframe, BG3 for example).

Welcome to the party pal

I nuked my Windows 11 and went with Fedora KDE, too.

what do you mean by your windows storage being "in limbo"?

I only use Windows for work nowadays, I have a mind to swap it with Linux too but afraid it'll mess up with some programs.