Hi all. This topic is one I hope will be on many peoples' minds as they encounter frustration (and in some cases a dead end) moving their Windows 10 systems to Windows 11. This may soon become the source of a multi-stakeholder public campaign, but that's just in the planning stages. Now for the personal angle. Some ago I installed Windows on a desktop I use a lot. It replaced Linux because that was incapable of running the one game I like playing. I even gave a talk to GTALUG about that move, about Windows Subsystem for Linux and the things I thought were better about the Windows desktop. Turns out I was wrong. So very, very wrong. And now I can't wait to go back to my Linux desktop, especially since there's a recent LTS release of Kubuntu, my traditional distro of choice. Plus, according to ProtonDB, my game might just run well natively on Linux <https://www.protondb.com/app/255710>! But it's been a long time since I've done this so I have some remedial questions to ask from this group's wisdom ... to help me change from a Windows install to a dual boot, priority Kubuntu: 1. My motherboard takes a single M.2 SSD for my one and only drive. I have a larger M.2 card that I'd like to replace it with, cloning my existing setup to the new drive (in a temporary USB enclosure) then installing and shrinking the Windows partition in anticipation of the Linux dual-boot install. Can anyone recommend a good tool for doing the disk clone? Or am I better off to just fresh-install Windows on the new drive, and restore my data from the old one? 2. I want to have one partition for data that is visible regardless if I boot Linux or Windows. Previously the most reliable filesystem readable by bothwas FAT32. Should I still do that? Is Linux support for NTFS good enough now? Even better, can Windows be taught to read ext4? 3. I've never used snap or flatpack before. Others have told me to install as much native (ie, .deb packages) as possible, use flatpack when it's the only option and uninstall snap. Any comments or caveats here? And why did app installation sources become needlessly complex? Thanks for any advice. - Evan