Okay, gonna give #Linux another shot today.
Last time I tried a couple weeks ago, it ended in unmitigated disaster after hours of trying. Let's hope this week goes better. I need to at least get a basic distro working so I can start testing Linux builds of game, even if I can't get it working well enough for day-to-day development.
I'm making a couple changes from last time I tried:
1) I'm simplifying my monitors. I normally have 5 monitors, operating from both the ports on the PCI GPU as well as the built-into-the-motherboard GPU ports. Windows was able to handle that with no problem, but I think it's an uncommon enough setup that it's making Linux choke. I think I can make it work with 4 monitors on just the dedicated GPU.
2) I'm trying more distros. Before I shut down Windows, I'll have 7 different labelled thumb drives: Linux #Mint, #ubuntu, #xubuntu, #PopOS, #Fedora, #EndeavorOS, and #OpenSUSE
Unfortunately, I can't currently switch from NVIDIA graphics cards because of a vendor requirement of one of my clients, so that's just a limitation I'll need to live with.
Here's hoping I can get it to work this time.
@LouisIngenthron Fedora is a great choice. And for the nvidia thing: Nvidia recently released a new beta driver which fixes pretty much all the problems there were with wayland. You might want to look into that. Good luck!
@neuroexception That's the one I'm trying first. I didn't even make it to installation with Fedora last time because of an (apparently Windows-caused) checksum error on the official ISO.
I had some trouble figuring out the interface for installation (it seems designed for wiping a disk, not carefully ordered partitions like I have), but now the installation is humming along... we'll see what we get.
