SmokeyDopeHow it feels being a linux geek: (Why yes, I do run Mint, BTW.)
Cyrus Draeguri tried mint on an old laptop for a little while and it was nice. i’m thinking of adopting linux for daily-driving when windows 10 stops being supported entirely. But i’m considering going with Bazzite when that time comes, maybe…
GlenRamboWhy not make the move now while you have win10 to fall back on?
Obligatory: Mint was the best balanced distro I foind.
i appreciate the encouragement ^_^ you know, maybe. I’m haunted by this fear (I try to tell myself it’s an irrational one) that attempting to get into linux now would mess things up for me and that i’d end up stranded and unable to get back but … mint is admittedly VERY APPROACHABLE… hm. Maybe I can drop by staples and buy a spare thumbdrive, put a mint boot image on it, and try it on my battlestation today.
You always have the option of partitioning some free space on your hard drive and dual boot windows along side Linux Mint until you’re 100% confident in booting windows from the drive. When I first got started with it years ago I had similar fears that something would go wrong or I wouldn’t be able to start my favorite software. That ways. I dual booted windows on my laptop for about a year until I realized I hadnt needed to use windows at all.
Seconding the person saying not to dual boot on a new partition. That was how I started with Linux like 10 years ago, and even then Windows would fuck up grub every time it updated and it took me ages to learn how to get boot into Linux again. Plus if you ever decide to ditch windows entirely, wiping that partition and adding it to the Linux one can be a pain in the ass.
If all you have is a laptop and a dream, maybe that’s the way. But if there are any other options…