u/CestleFromage

For context, I am mostly leaning towards a minimalist setup using niri + noctalia but I figured in the niri docs that its easier to wire up stuff with the gnome desktop portal and so I was planning to lean more towards gnome apps for easier integration but I also see a lot of people saying that kde is good especially with dolphin and plm, idk I’m kind of conflicted right now and was hoping some of you would convince me why gnome hehaha

I’m trying to copy my files from my internal storage onto an external hard drive as backup but I noticed that the transfer speed is notably slow as the average speed is just around 12 MiB/s and sometimes it drops to <1 MiB/s. I am doing so via Dolphin but I also tried the terminal which just had the same performance. From time to time Dolphin also stops responding and freezes. Is this a common occurrence with the difference in the file systems or am I missing something else?

Hear me out on this one first before the "just don't dual boot" comments roll in.

As my circumstances have it, I only have one storage slot on my laptop so I don't really have much of a choice. But my plan is to shrink the Windows partition, install Fedora, and use Linux as my daily driver for basically everything I can. I only intend to keep Windows as a fallback for apps like safe exam browsers or specific work related software that has absolutely zero workarounds on Linux.

I've already read up on the common issues like fast startup and secure boot, and the occasional Windows updates breaking the Linux bootloader. But the main question is: given that setup, how bad is the risk really? Is there anything I'm missing that I should sort out before committing?