Interesting take. I definitely agree that the ease of “just do it in Windows” that comes with dual booting was a thing for me, in the years when I was dabbling and thinking about switching for good.
What finally motivated me was getting fed up enough with Windows and M$ to not care about possible collateral damage from switching full time to Linux. My switch was helped by the fact that I left a job with a lot of overtime work that needed to be done in Windows for corporate compatibility. Once I was free of that, my dependency on one or two critical Windows apps was gone, so it was easier to switch as well.
What I really enjoy is the freedom to keep exploring/learning/changing. I set up Home on a separate partition, so if I can distro-hop without too much downside,if and when I get bored.
I’ve toyed around with switching full time on my desktop and ended up buying an orange pi 5 plus and a raspberry pi 3. The pi 3 runs pihole and homebridge while I just use the orange pi to play around and daily drive as much as I can. Currently run Armbian off an m.2 and have it set to boot to batocera off an sd card if I want to retro game.
Half the time I just SSH in from my iPad and the other half of the time I use the desktop environment for Armbian.
Side note: I run some local AI projects on my PC and it was really fun getting some basic models running on the NPU in the orange pi 5. That’s why I ended up going with a specific version (can’t remember which off the top of my head) of armbian so I can run small local AI models.
Interesting take. I definitely agree that the ease of “just do it in Windows” that comes with dual booting was a thing for me, in the years when I was dabbling and thinking about switching for good.
What finally motivated me was getting fed up enough with Windows and M$ to not care about possible collateral damage from switching full time to Linux. My switch was helped by the fact that I left a job with a lot of overtime work that needed to be done in Windows for corporate compatibility. Once I was free of that, my dependency on one or two critical Windows apps was gone, so it was easier to switch as well.
What I really enjoy is the freedom to keep exploring/learning/changing. I set up Home on a separate partition, so if I can distro-hop without too much downside,if and when I get bored.
I’ve toyed around with switching full time on my desktop and ended up buying an orange pi 5 plus and a raspberry pi 3. The pi 3 runs pihole and homebridge while I just use the orange pi to play around and daily drive as much as I can. Currently run Armbian off an m.2 and have it set to boot to batocera off an sd card if I want to retro game.
Half the time I just SSH in from my iPad and the other half of the time I use the desktop environment for Armbian.
Side note: I run some local AI projects on my PC and it was really fun getting some basic models running on the NPU in the orange pi 5. That’s why I ended up going with a specific version (can’t remember which off the top of my head) of armbian so I can run small local AI models.