I tried messing with my boot settings since it was required for playing the new battlefield open beta or whatever. After changing the settings, my computer could no longer find the boot drive and I was stuck in BIOS. Managed to revert and everything was ok, but with all that will be involved in transitioning to Linux, I don't feel like risking my PC for that when everything works now, as much as I would love to be on Linux.
I know dual boot exists, I'm not interested - have to cut my storage volume to do that and I'd rather it be all or nothing.
I know I can test drive Linux by booting from a USB drive, not interested cause I've already done it in the past and it was fine, but it doesn't fix the issues with transitioning.
I know I can back up all my data and proceed from that point - so what, all my data is backed up, my drives are formatted, and then what do I do if I run into the issue of not being able to boot from that drive again? Or even another issue I don't know about yet that bricks my shit?
Beyond all of that, transitioning will involve a lot of work and investigating to set everything as I like it and fix any problems I run into. I only have so much time in the day and so much attention to give things and with the risk consideration added on, it's just not worth the time and effort and attention it would take.
That said, I'm considering once I get a lot of free time to commit to it somehow or I replace my current pc
I tried messing with my boot settings since it was required for playing the new battlefield open beta or whatever. After changing the settings, my computer could no longer find the boot drive and I was stuck in BIOS. Managed to revert and everything was ok, but with all that will be involved in transitioning to Linux, I don't feel like risking my PC for that when everything works now, as much as I would love to be on Linux.
I know dual boot exists, I'm not interested - have to cut my storage volume to do that and I'd rather it be all or nothing.
I know I can test drive Linux by booting from a USB drive, not interested cause I've already done it in the past and it was fine, but it doesn't fix the issues with transitioning.
I know I can back up all my data and proceed from that point - so what, all my data is backed up, my drives are formatted, and then what do I do if I run into the issue of not being able to boot from that drive again? Or even another issue I don't know about yet that bricks my shit?
Beyond all of that, transitioning will involve a lot of work and investigating to set everything as I like it and fix any problems I run into. I only have so much time in the day and so much attention to give things and with the risk consideration added on, it's just not worth the time and effort and attention it would take.
That said, I'm considering once I get a lot of free time to commit to it somehow or I replace my current pc