>>107087629
>instead of dual booting (which is painful and crappy)
Even if it's on the separate drives? Also: yeah, a lot of stuff you mentioned I already started, but definitely thanks for all the tips and advice, I really appreciate it!
>>107087753
>you'll probably hit the DE wall at some point so know you're not limited to a prepackaged DE and can always join the tinker crowd and use a WM instead
That's the long term goal. For now I'll try to limit myself to just basic stuff and focus more about setting all the functionalities and the apps up and running. That's also why I'm afraid of Arch. Plus, I feel like that the faster I get it running and the more time I end up spending with any Linux distro, the greater chances are that I'm just gonna ditch Windows completely, instead of sticking to dual boot.
>>107087747
>3 months without Windows
X amount of time without Windows... I see posts like this a lot these days, cause I'm watching basic Linux videos, and it always looks so amusing to me. Like a drunkard being sober for some time or junkie being clean and rediscovering life. I understand that not all of the videos showing people happily transitioning are not true, some of them do go back for various reasons, but a lot of times it's for the reason that for me, personally, are not a problem. Usually it's gaming (I'm not gonna game much with integrated GPU kek) or Windows-only software. For the second problem there usually is a open source alternative, Wine, or if nothing else running Windows in VM.
Thanks for the recommendation, I appreciate it!