I finally nuked windows

I have been daily driving a dual booted laptop for the past two years. After a year of distro hopping I settled with fedora + kde and never looked back. I really liked the auto nvidia driver config and it made everything so pleasant to work. Since the last 8 or 9 months I decided to do gaming using bottles and proton ge. I cannot afford to buy games and bottles is a God send at that. Now I realized that I had not logged into my windows partition in over 6 months. 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( I have a 512 gb ssd so it was a lot) and today after everything was setup, the os took only around 20gb minus the games. Never felt happier.

JoeKrogan,
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

Welcome to the party pal

IsoSpandy,

Thank you. Drinks on me!!!

atzanteol,

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”.

IsoSpandy,

I actually did everything on Ext4 and had a separate home partition which was only 30gigs. So that was the main gripe in the previous install I had I thought to rectify it.

Alas I didn’t use btrfs this time also and did Ext4. Maybe I should have enabled snapshots. Who knows. I may just be an adventurous dude.

atzanteol,

Are you using LVM? It’s a layer that sits under ext4 that allows for partition management similar to btrfs. You can find out if you’re using it by running sudo lvdisplay and you would see some logical volumes listed.

TwinTusks,
@TwinTusks@bitforged.space avatar

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.

MrOzwaldMan,

8 gigs of update after leaving for 6 months is a sensible thing to occur. I don’t know why it is a thing to be enraged by.

I mean, if you don’t update an OS and you come back to check go updates, it will pile on to become a huge update like the 8 gigs.

Lastly, don’t distrohop because it is not there, there is always something that exists that can give you what you want.

powermaker450,
@powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

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

IsoSpandy,

Basically the windows partition was taking up around 250 gb. And wasn’t even booting into it. Sure I could access it from Linux, but it was literally useless.

powermaker450,
@powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

ah I see. at first I interpreted it as you couldn’t reclaim the space from windows

Jayb151,

Man, I had fresh imaged windows 11, and windows update nuked my bios. Never again.

I installed endeavor, but the lack of a GUI for installations bothered me. Installed kubuntu last night.

Mereo,

I’m curious, how did it nuke your bios?

Jayb151,

I mean…I Said windows did it lol.

But for real, I selected to update my firmware from within Windows update. I tried for a couple days, but was not able to recover it. Since I had an HP pre built, I used it as an opportunity to upgrade. I got a new motherboard and a couple parts and I’m back on my feet.

Valmond,

One of us!

IsoSpandy,

One of us!!!

Disgruntled,

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

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