not an answer to your question, but I personally never felt dual-booting or VM’s were a good way to get into Linux. If your experience is the same, you might enjoy just getting a different computer for Linux. E.g. you could get a raspberry pi to use as a Syncthing-server, or an old laptop if you have a stationary computer-
As for the aesthetic - if you’re new to Linux, you should not prioritize aesthetics when picking a distro. Find something reasonably stable and well supported, like Mint or Kubuntu, and play around with themes and such in stead.
I went through the apps I was using and found the Linux versions or an equivalent. Installed Linux as the primary and put windows in a VM to handle the residual. For a lot of things I have found that Wine runs most of the residual windows apps ok.
same - although I’ve never used a VM to run photoshop or other tools for making stuff, just games. Having to use software from inside a VM in a creative workflow seems like a pain, but maybe there are possibilities I haven’t thought of for file syncing and such.
not an answer to your question, but I personally never felt dual-booting or VM’s were a good way to get into Linux. If your experience is the same, you might enjoy just getting a different computer for Linux. E.g. you could get a raspberry pi to use as a Syncthing-server, or an old laptop if you have a stationary computer-
As for the aesthetic - if you’re new to Linux, you should not prioritize aesthetics when picking a distro. Find something reasonably stable and well supported, like Mint or Kubuntu, and play around with themes and such in stead.
VM’s are fine - the world runs on VM’s.
Dual booting is asking for a failure.
VMs are definitely better than dual booting.
I went through the apps I was using and found the Linux versions or an equivalent. Installed Linux as the primary and put windows in a VM to handle the residual. For a lot of things I have found that Wine runs most of the residual windows apps ok.
same - although I’ve never used a VM to run photoshop or other tools for making stuff, just games. Having to use software from inside a VM in a creative workflow seems like a pain, but maybe there are possibilities I haven’t thought of for file syncing and such.