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I still recommend getting a new SSD to install Linux on if you want to keep the ability to run your old Windows on that same machine. It is cheap, safe for both your Windows and Linux installs, usually allows you to take advantage of advancements in SSD speeds, lets you have access to your old files so you can transfer them over and makes the whole process far less terrifying.
At some point you'll realize you haven't used your Windows drive in a year and it will be a lot easier to make the decision to finally erase it all and repurpose the drive for something else.
It hasn't been a year yet but so far it's been the other way around for me (except for the VM I run my piracy stuff on and my media server, that's going great). I have been running into constant issues and annoyances trying to use Linux as my daily driver. Maybe if all I cared about was streaming content and gaming it would be fine but I couldn't even get through my taxes without having to switch back.
Do you have any use cases in particular that have been pain points? I'm a 20+ year user who helps folks make the switch as a hobby, I may have some advice for you.
@ArsonButCute @lightnsfw at this point the only thing stopping me from moving ahead of October is a 20 year photo collection which is all indexed and star rated in Photoshop elements organiser. Any hints how I would move this to Linux? I'm happy to buy software if required but don't want to use SAS.
Whe I'm not personally familiar with adobe's elements organizer, I believe you may want a metadata editor to maintain your sorting and ratings. I use Tiny Media Manager for managing my metadata but it looks like it can't handle photos, I've looked into it a tiny bit and "ExifTool" (exiftool.org) seems to be the same but for image metadata.
I'd recommend copying some of those files already sorted by the adobe suite and check in the windows version of exiftool if it can edit or modify your tags and ratings you've applied. If so, the tool is also available Linux and MacOS.
@ArsonButCute thanks, I'll give it a shot. Last time I tried the hard part was getting the tags out of Adobe, especially if you don't want the modified metadata date changed.