A Half-Noob Guide to Rocky Linux

Introduction

Maybe you’re a bit like me. You have set up several systems in your life, have somewhat advanced knowledge of your OS of choice and are not afraid to stick your hand under the hood and get your fingernails dirty. Yet you are not really an expert either and constantly look things up or ask AI for help, feeling a little guilty about it.

Maybe you’re a bit like me and have had enough of Windows or MacOS or maybe even Adobe and want to break free from them.

If you are, cool :)! I have wanted to make the swtich to Linux for a fairly long time, but never had the guts to do it. At the time of writing this, I have been using Rocky Linux 10 for about 3 months, worked on 3 real life projects in that time and I have to say I am incredibly happy that I did. I’m still in my “new car” period where I just blissfully sit at my workstation, doing nothing in particular.

I am happy to announce that the switch is totally friction-less… sort of. Almost. Depends on your system. It wasn’t with mine, but it also wasn’t totally awful either.

To GNOME or KDE

No text yet. Give me some time, please.

My Specs

You’re in luck. I have a bit of an exotic setup in some places, meaning if I can get everything to work properly, chances are you will as well. Here is my workstation specs:

Hardware:

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X on an Asus ProArt X870E-Creator WiFi board
4x Kingston Fury DDR5 32Gb 6400 (clocked at 4800)
NVidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (GUI)
NVidia GeForce RTX 4070 (Rendering)
Samsung 990 Pro 2Tb M.2 for both OS
Keychron H10 Keyboard (we’ll get back to the headaches this one caused me)
Wacom Intuos 5 L Touch tablet (and this one as well)
Logitech M705 mouse
2x Acer B287K work monitors (not for much longer)
LG C2 for video playout
Tascam Model 16 for audio playout

Software:

Overview

Create backups if you need to
Write down or somehow remember which drive will hold your OS partitions
Install Windows
Install Rocky Linux KDE
Test everything
Work happily for a few days
Start fiddling with the system
Break something to the point where you can’t fix it
GOTO 1

Installing Windows

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Installing Rocky

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