Dual Boot Diaries

By Adam Patrick Murray, Will Smith

Dual Boot Diaries follows two long-time Windows users as they see if they can switch to Linux full time. Each week hosts Adam Patrick Murray and Will Smith go through their experiences daily-driving L... more

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How many episodes does Dual Boot Diaries have?

The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.

Dual Boot Diaries episodes:

October 25, 2025 Episode 9: Hardest Part Of Linux? Why Not WSL? Screen Recording When? All Q&A
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam and Will take some time to get through a bunch of questions we've recieved on The Full Nerd Discord channel. Thanks to everyone who submitted a question, head over to the DBD_questions channel if you have something specific you'd like to know in the future!

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/jCzHZwVd

Follow the crew on X or Bluesky: @AdamPMurray @WillSmith

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1h 3min
October 20, 2025 Episode 8: Dead Laptop, ARU Down, Wild Framework Idea & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will talks about his dead Asus laptop, how he broke Cachy, what he did when ARU was down; and Adam also sets up a new laptop with Bazzite and floats a wild idea to use multiple Framework devices.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/jCzHZwVd

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1h 9min
October 10, 2025 Episode 7: Games Partitioning, Tiling WM, HannaMontanaOS & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam dives into Wendell's fixes, using Audacity in Linux, and exploring the dark world of celebrity distros, while Will updates everyone on how he set up partitions for gaming, his love for tiling desktops, and Battlefield 6 testing.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/jCzHZwVd

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October 08, 2025 Special: Framework CEO Talks Linux Support, Personal Distro & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will is joined by Nirav Patel, CEO and Founder of Framework, to talk about why Linux support is so important to him and the company.

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October 03, 2025 Episode 6: Level1Techs Helps With Our Homework & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam and Will are joined by Wendell from Level1Techs (aka The Final Boss) in a remote location to talk about his first experiences with Linux, why he loves tiling window managers, and helps the guys with their homework.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

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1h 16min
September 26, 2025 Episode 5: Linux Jank, Lenovo Laptop Config & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Will shares his efforts to get his custom desktop PC set up for gaming/streaming and Adam walks through the steps he's taken to get Ubuntu all set up on his Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen7.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

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1h 27min
September 19, 2025 Episode 4: Settling On A Distro, DE Switching & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam has returned from his trip to talk about using Ubuntu and trying out Fedora, while Will recounts his experiences using gnome on his laptop and installing Cachy on his desktop.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

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1h 18min
September 12, 2025 Episode 3: Distro Hopping, Wi-Fi Issues, Travel Prep & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam talks about his love of distro hopping and the preperation for his travels, while Will fixes his Wi-Fi and time clock issues.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

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1h 5min
September 05, 2025 Episode 2: Hardware Issues, KDE vs Gnome, & More
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In this episode Adam and Will talk about dealing with hardware issues, what they are liking and not liking about the different distros and desktop environments, and Will's issues using the company printer.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

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1h 23min
August 29, 2025 Episode 1: Installation, Set Up, & First Reactions
Join the Dual Boot Diaries as long-time Windows users chronicle their experinces trying to use Linux daily. In the first (real) episode Adam and Will go over how installing and configuring their respective distros went, including Adam's first thoughts on Pop_OS!.

Join the PC & Linux related discussions and ask us questions on Discord: https://discord.gg/SGPRSy7

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1h 8min

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How many episodes does Dual Boot Diaries have?

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