Windows 10 to a Linux Distro?

[KhakiHat]

Outside of the fact that I would have to work out a few different types of software incompatibilities and the lack of gaming support, would I experience any hardware issues?

I understand that some linux distros and MacOS have issues with certain motherboards, drivers, and GPU's.

 

My main machine has 8GB of RAM (2400MHz), 120GB SSD, 1TB HDD, an i5-9600K 6-core, and a GTX 1060 3GB.

Also the MOBO I have is an ASRock Z390M-ITX/ac LGA 1151 (300 Series).

[LukeNukem9]

6 minutes ago, KhakiHat said:

would I experience any hardware issues?

highly doubt it seeing how open-source linux can be.

[Nexxt]

There won't be any hardware issues with such common hardware, the drivers for the 1060 are on Nvidia's website. https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/147582/en-us

[KhakiHat]

Just now, LukeTheCoder05 said:

highly doubt it seeing how open-source linux can be.

That's good to know, I just want to avoid uninstalling windows just to find tons of hardware issues with a linux distro.

[LukeNukem9]

Just now, KhakiHat said:

That's good to know, I just want to avoid uninstalling windows just to find tons of hardware issues with a linux distro.

You can install linux beside windows and it makes a selection screen upon boot-up. Try it with 18.10 or 19.04 (i think)

[KhakiHat]

1 minute ago, Stru said:

There won't be any hardware issues with such common hardware, the drivers for the 1060 are on Nvidia's website. https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/147582/en-us

I honestly never even thought to check the Nvidia website for drivers XD

I haven't thought that far ahead XD

[KhakiHat]

Just now, LukeTheCoder05 said:

You can install linux beside windows and it makes a selection screen upon boot-up. Try it with 18.10 or 19.04 (i think)

I was planning on using the distro as my main driver

[jj9987]

I'd personally suggest going with 18.04 LTS release. LTS releases are more supported compared to traditional releases and have less software incompatibilities, tho you lose out on the newest features. A friend of mine had trouble getting even some basic tools to properly work on 19.04.

[KhakiHat]

1 minute ago, jj9987 said:

I'd personally suggest going with 18.04 LTS release. LTS releases are more supported compared to traditional releases and have less software incompatibilities, tho you lose out on the newest features. A friend of mine had trouble getting even some basic tools to properly work on 19.04.

Could you elaborate on the "basic tools"?

[jj9987]

22 minutes ago, KhakiHat said:

Could you elaborate on the "basic tools"?

Can't remember by heart, but I remember he had issues with git, not sure what the exact issue was.

[DeaconFrost]

Make a bootable flash drive of the distro you want to use.  Many offer a Live system.  Boot into that, and check your hardware.  Aside from graphics cards, you will likely have support right away for everything, most importantly, network devices.