A few days in. The verdict is clear, for me: I don't see myself going back to Windows. For now Windows is asleep on its partition — there's a good chance I'll simply delete it in a few weeks.
The great move
A little change of address for Zorin. My install was running on a PCI Express 3.0 NVMe (~3.5 GB/s). The machine's main disk is a PCI Express 5.0 NVMe (~14 GB/s) — four times faster. If Linux is going to be my main system, it might as well live on the main disk.
The plan:
- Shrink the Windows partition on the fast disk to free up space.
- Move that Windows partition to the end of the disk (so there's a contiguous free block at the start, where Zorin will live).
- Copy the Zorin install from the old disk into the freshly freed space.
- Update GRUB so it points at the new Zorin (and still at Windows for dual boot).
It all went smoothly, well guided by Claude.
What now
The system is now on the fast NVMe. Everything is snappier at startup, games load faster, and Windows sleeps in the background — to be deleted as soon as I've got enough hindsight to be sure I won't need it.
For the curious
This blog isn't an ad for Claude or for Anthropic — nobody asked me to mention them. Claude is just the tool I happen to use day to day; swap it freely for whichever AI you prefer, the principle is the same.