I thought about creating a dual boot system on my laptop because I know that I can't simply go "cold turkey" to linux and still do my job. So there will be a transition period. But the more I thought about dual boot, the more I realized it would keep me from adopting linux as my default OS. If I were working in linux and needed to fire up windows to perform a particular task, restarting the computer would force me to close all of my linux tasks, reboot to windows, perform whatever task I needed, then shutdown and reboot to linux again. So I decided on a different strategy.
First step will be to have an external solid state drive for linux and simply leave my laptop as is. I'll use linux as home in the evenings, and windows during the day at work. I'll leave my laptop hard drive configured as is, and just plug in the external drive and boot from it when I need to accomplish something on my computer at home.
Longer term approach will be to set up either Wine or VirtualBox to run Windows from within linux. Once I get that working on my "evening" drive, I'll simply dump windows from my laptop and be able to pop back and forth without rebooting. At least it's a plan. I expect it will take a few months before I get to that point. But today, I feel like I'm in this for the long game.
First step will be to have an external solid state drive for linux and simply leave my laptop as is. I'll use linux as home in the evenings, and windows during the day at work. I'll leave my laptop hard drive configured as is, and just plug in the external drive and boot from it when I need to accomplish something on my computer at home.
Longer term approach will be to set up either Wine or VirtualBox to run Windows from within linux. Once I get that working on my "evening" drive, I'll simply dump windows from my laptop and be able to pop back and forth without rebooting. At least it's a plan. I expect it will take a few months before I get to that point. But today, I feel like I'm in this for the long game.