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This is the key to a painless transition.

1. Dual boot should be ok. If and when you decide to fully switch, I'd say it's better to do a reinstall. Messing with partitions always comes with disclaimers. A bit advanced topic if you are interested: when you resize partition usually data needs to be moved, depending what you do with it, so it will wear your ssd; also you should be aware that you must install windows first, Linux second because windows doesn't really play well with others and be sure NOT to format EFI partition when installing Linux.

You have alternatives to dual boot: VMs. Run Linux on bare metal, then boot up a VM if you need something only windows can provide. Gnome has a new VM tool incoming.

2. No idea for audio, but Photoshop has alternative, gimp. Wether you like it or not, it's another story (people I know really really hate that one). For digital art there is a tool called Krita that runs on kde. People really enjoy using it.

3. NTFS has one thing that Linux doesn't really like - it is case insensitive. Linux normally works with case sensitive filesystems. There was recently a rant by the Linux overlord about case insensitive filesystems, so you might want to stay clear of it. It's ok to use it on a thumb drive though.

Edit: minor typing fixes

Imap based? Ok...

Wondering why jmap wasn't an option then...

Any effort in this area is too much since it is for sure wasted. Even Bugfixes. If people want to use it, they should have stuck with plasma lts or use an lts distro.

I know I'm not majority with this opinion, but plasma 6 should have dropped x11. Plasma 7 should drop xwayland.

Not only does this make sense effort wise, but it prioritizes future and not past development.

Valve can stay with older kwin version and/or support move to Wayland with SDL improvements and whatever else is needed. Not that they lack resources... Also Vulkan.

Why still use WordPress when KDE has its own blog?

Can you guys make a blog account to one of the most known KDE people that he can write his personal opinions there? This post really should be on kde.org.

Gonna be down voted to oblivion, but doesn't matter, here goes:

Rgarding x11, this is a shame that it hasn't been dropped already. Investing time and effort into a sad story instead of investing into improving Wayland session and apps. This kind of behavior is known in the corporate environment as sunk costs.

It's a shame that KDE is always a follower given a huge advantage in Qt toolkit.

Don't know how to help you with those vdi problems, but here is an out of the box thinking: tell him to ask a neighbor.

I have a similar situation so i got a hetzner VM and set up wireguard connections from both ends, so that vm serves as a hub/router. Then you can just ssh into the machine via vpn and do an update, upgrade or whatever.

If you stick with Ubuntu lts, it will require very little maintenance.

Just one: Bing wallpaper

Mozilla with 500M google funding spent it on bakers salary and buying shit companies that they layer write off.

They may not be evil, but sure are incompetent.

3 guys made basically a new engine in a couple of years with minimal funding while improving standards.

The only good thing that came out of mozilla in years was rust/servo.

Radical opinion: the sooner mozilla dies, the better. We will have alternatives. In fact, we have them already.

The question is if they will close that 15-20y gap in 3-5y

Not that I'm using them, but what about these two?

https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/

https://www.proxmox.com/en/

What's garbage about it?

Mandrake/Mandriva is from France