The Post Ninja
It’s an “immutable” Fedora, that is, the system comes as a read only image, kind of like how android works. Anything you do is “layered” on top of that image. This means you have to actually try to break it, because you can undo anything you did to break it by simply not booting with the extra layer(s).
You’re encouraged to install in userspace flatpaks instead of system-wide rpms where possible, as system-wide rpms means adding a layer on top if the image as it is.
Your next step is to Arch
The great irony is, when I ran Windows native on those Intel Macbooks, I was getting better battery and performance than with macOS.
If they all support EFI, you’ll be out of disk space before you hit the limits of EFI partitioning.
Unless you’re one if those challenge accepted people who will try installing 10,000 floppy drive-sized microlinuxes on one system.
We’re assuming useful daily driver desktop as the benchmark here. Not boot to a console with nothing on it.
Hard to break, and Bazzite.
RX 6700 XT here… once I refreshed the thermal pads and the thermal paste, it works great in Windows and Linuxes… Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, Bazzite (Immutable Fedora but for gaming), it had no issues with the amdgpu driver builtin on any of them.
I’ve had sub 200s with Lubuntu before
It’s like the difference between going vegetarian (Linux) and vegan (completely FOSS only linux)
Xubuntu is still too heavy, you have to strip it further and go for Lubuntu. Nothing like a 400 MB idle memory load on the desktop
It never ends
The next step, you’re handwriting a fixit code because said ancient one off laptop won’t compile linux from scratch properly and some stupid piece of essential hardware is blocking your efforts to get to the shell first time.
If you’re going this route, a Galaxy Tab S7 Lite supports LineageOS
also dual boot first before going cold turkey
I daily Windows 11… though I use Ubuntu for servers and Mint for my linux desktops (older hardware that doesn’t W11).
This game runs on the Godot engine, so it has a common base to work with.
Depending on which Linux you go with, some Linuxes (Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, or Fedora) are able to utilize Secure Boot, which is a godsend if you’re dual booting with Windows 11. Before everyone in the linux community runs you over with “But Arch!”, I would suggest getting a USB Stick and making a Mint install stick first by downloading the preferred version of Mint Linux (I prefer XFCE because it’s super light and super fast, all the better for a laptop), download rufus (rufus.ie), make yourself a boot stick that is gpt/efi, booting on that, and from there, you can install Mint Alongside Windows (it has an option to do it automatically, or you can use the progran GParted, which should be on the “Live” desktop when you Try it) to resize Windows partition. Word of advice: Restart Windows, do not Shutdown, when you are going to boot on the stick, or it will not be able to do the resizing, and make sure to leave at least 20GB free with Windows if you manually resize, or you run the risk of breaking something by making the resized partition too small. Other than that, go full ham.
P.S. If there is a problem with Secure Boot after installing Mint, disable Secure Boot in your bios (uefi), and run the Updater in Mint. There was a bug in one of the versions where Secure Boot fails.
P.P.S. A lot of linux users are really salty and don’t like anything Microsoft and swear Secure Boot is pointless and a waste. Don’t listen to that, every Linux should support Secure Boot by now.
If you have a wifi adapter, run on that for now, and dc the ethernet. Probably a hardware problem.
flatpaks are designed for gui apps, and due to packaging dependencies, they are extra heavy in disk space. flatpaks are also most often installed on the user, not systemwide, so no root permissions needed to install.
apt installs systemwide exclusively, but can have a much smaller download size if the dependencies are already installed. Apps sharing dependencies means much less disk space. cli is supported.