How to replace Windows with Garuda OS

digdilem, 9 months ago

You know one of the easiest and safest ways of switching base os? Replace the ssd (or m.2).

They’re ridiculously cheap now and, after copying the installer files to a usb stick, unplug your old ssd and plug in the new one. Then you can go back fully if it doesn’t work out.

CafecitoHippo, 9 months ago

And you can get a cheap enclosure for the old m.2 or SSD to copy files you need off the old one.

nottheengineer, 9 months ago

Make absolutely sure that you’re not touching the ubuntu partition while getting rid of windows.

A backup of at least your home directory is recommended.

Then just remove the windows partition from ubuntu and install garuda to it as usual. You’ll probably need to use grub-mkconfig after installation to make sure grub shows both ubuntu and garuda. The arch wiki has a good guide on that.

TeddE, 9 months ago

I recommend using Transwiz to zip up your user profile, you can move the .trans.zip file to a neutral location (external drive, network storage, etc). Of course if you have valuable information stored outside the C:\Users folder, back it up as well. Now you should have a system you can safely mangle, destroy and rebuild without worrying about user data. Once you’ve built your new setup, extract the zip folder into /home/[your_name] or ~ and you’re all set.

mvirts, 9 months ago

Don’t turn on overclocking or do anything that pops up a warning and you should be okay doing pretty much anything to the bios. Yes, you can make you machine fail to start (fail to post) but it’s a reset jumper or button away from being back to default settings again.

madthumbs, 9 months ago

How to replace Windows with Garuda OS

I use Windows for Photoshop, Topaz AI, Office, and some games. -It’s not replacing Windows.

257m, 9 months ago

It’s my machine?

jimmydoreisalefty, 9 months ago

They meant it as a literal replacement of the OS, as in to run everything you could on win on linix os .

In your case it is possible, due to not using said programs, just using something else, or just going without them.

madthumbs, 9 months ago

Then why are we reading about it?

Jumuta, 9 months ago

don’t bother with this guy, they’re just a troll. have a look at his profile

s20, 9 months ago

It’s best practice to actually read the posy before commenting rather than commenting on the post title and ignoring its text.

Xartle, 9 months ago

If you’re going to start playing around with multiple OS’s. Is really in your best interest to start using a data partition. Or better yet, start keeping your files somewhere else entirely and then backing that place up…

You can’t really brick a PC by doing anything to the boot drive though. You may screw up the OS, but the bios is there to make sure you can boot off something else if need be…

Shady_Shiroe, 9 months ago

I am unsure of what or how many files you need but ever think about using something like a flash drive to save your files to it and then wiping drive? I know sometimes you get so caught up with complex problems that you forget about the simple solutions.

257m, 9 months ago

I need basically just my config files since projects are on gitlab. I will probably just zip them all up and store in cloud storage on dropbox and then redownload or try to access the ubuntu home paritition from Garuda if that is possible.

bob_wiley, 9 months ago

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oo1, 9 months ago

yeah good advice
i'd copy/rsync /home folder to a usb. regularly.
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if you have a lot of symlinks, then make a simple bash script that'll recreate them.

also worth having a bash script that installs all your packages , and makes any config changes (copies edited files ) should you need to start again for any reason.(fire / theft / disk failure).

cloud is ok as a 3rd backup - but i regard it more for portability and remote access than as a primary backup. whoever owns it can go bust, or have downtime, or get hacked etc.