Hello everyone,
In a previous post I was praising alot the distro Fedora, and I said “after many tries I find peace with the perfect distro for me” and go on..
I want to say the perfect setup does not exists, we need to find the find the perfect compromise, the one fit best our needings.
For my experience mostly of times I was with virtual machines, mixing Windows and Linux.
Well, last month I changed again my workflow: I ended up with a dual boot between Windows 11 and Debian 13 Trixie stable.
I am not huge fan of dual boot, mostly because you need to reboot computer for change OS, and this it might be a bit uncomfortable.
Other side by the way you have the real hardware power dedicated to the physical machine, and this is very important.
On my virtual machines I also ever had issues configuring usb ports or letting the VM going full screen.
So, as no dual boot super fan, I have to admit is more convinient having Windows and Linux on bare metal, the only little issue is the setup a bit uncomfortable. But considering pros and contro I would say I can accept rebooting the PC just for switch OS.
Last time I tried go with Debian I had some difficulties installing Nvidia drivers for my RTX 5070, but after some months now things are alot better. I followed a tutorial that explain how to enable extra repositories in Debian and install Nvidia open driver, downloaded directly from the Nvidia server. Maybe in a second post I’ll share what I discovered so far.
Now I can enjoy the best of both worlds, and for being honest Debian was for long time one of my favorite distros.
I decided to stuck on Liquorix kernels, and upgrading them each major release, more or less every 1 month and half or 2, no every week, as Fedora mainline is doing.
I consider weekly kernel updates a bit risky.
The main motive that let my considering to format everything again and go for dual boot setup was the following:
I found a videogame that was not perfect running on Fedora, sometimes it was getting freezes. So I switched to Windows 11, and the game was working properly.
After a week I was missing Linux (again!), so I give a look in Debian and I found the perfect guide for RTX 5000 drivers. It felt it was time for give it a try.
Notice that I have Windows 11 and Debian in two separate hard drives, each one with it’s own boot loader. I just configured Grub in Debian to read Microsoft EFI bootloader. Everything is now fine.
The Linux DE I choosed is my beloved XFCE 
If you arrived until here with you reading please accept my confession as distro-hopper, I’m just trying to find the best combination for my setup.
I want also to precise in this period I’m not working with my main PC, so I don’t have some deadlines. I was able to find the time for my distro hop 
