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For real. I recently had to swap my window manager to xmonad just to feel something again.

Install Gentoo and let the fun begin!

Yeah it just works now. Sometimes I miss the days where we had to troubleshoot sound drivers, because it made us learn so much. Even if we didn't manage to fix the problem, we learned about how sound works in Linux.

Time to do LFS

I have a Mac with multiple monitors. It handles them a hell of a lot better than my PC at work.

I mean, yeah, don’t ever buy a Mac, but what’s up with the multiple monitors? Do they struggle with it?

Probably the reason as to why you aren't rich in the first place

That's fantastic, man! Congratulations, really!

You don't need god, pacman is our god!

It feels like it needs training sessions to make better use of it, and also it is wacky as hell

Seems the description of MS Office.

At first I thought this was cursed

No! PonyOS uses its own kernel, built from scratch

Now I think it’s very cursed

EDIT:

Ok after investigating the kernel is forked from https://github.com/klange/toaruos so it’s slightly less cursed

Yes, first you need to resize the partition to accommodate the new OS. Usually 40-60 GB is good enough for minimal linux installation if you didn't do any gaming or other massive applications. The resizing can be done in windows using disk management utility baked into windows, or some other partition manager (easeus, magic tools, etc). After that, linux can be safely installed in the free space as a single partition.

Now, sometimes the bootloader is fucked, but it is quite easy to fix. In fact, if you use grub, it usually runs os-probe for you to check for any other OS. So sometimes, fixing it is as simple as rerunning grubmkconfig. But there are other times where it is not as simple. It will vary depending on what happened and too long to list here. Arch Wiki usually covers a lot of the topic so you could try searching there, especially on the topic of boot sequence.

Lastly, if you need to move the partition, the data already inside will need to be moved too. This can take time depending on the size. But it is doable and safe.

If, later down the road you want to remove either OS, you can simply remove the partition after moving the data first. Linux can mount ntfs natively so no problem there. On windows, there is a program called ext4 explorer or something along the line to browse and copy from linux filesystem (which is usually ext4). Don't forget to remove the boot information too after you're done removing the partition.

Now there is also the other suggestion to use a live environment but I didn't suggest it since the experience can be lacking and more hassle in and of itself.

I'll add that id highly recommend making a backup before doing anything. You can more safely try out linux in a virtual machine as well

Buying a Mac didn't help.

It's the storage prices. Any more than 1tb and you gotta sell a kidney.