Eugenia LLiterally me. 11 successful installations of Linux in my area so far, with zero complaints, and I will be doing a 12th soon.
Alessio 
@eugenialoli @janvlug impossible
@dottorblaster @janvlug not at all in Greece. People don't have money to upgrade.
@eugenialoli @janvlug neither in Italy but you wouldn’t guess the level of self-harm people can reach sometimes
@dottorblaster @janvlug linux mint is harm-free. Works perfectly and easily on 95% of computers out there. Which is a high bar, since none of these computers were made for Linux .
Helgi Crookehorne@eugenialoli @dottorblaster @janvlug you don't realize it can't be harm free to write something to NTFS partitions from under Linux, it makes the filesystem a huge mess.
@Helgi @dottorblaster @janvlug Then don't, use a fat32 partition to exchange files. NTFS is not a native Linux filesystem, it's an add-on filesystem, and as such, it can never be as well tested as a native one. Plus, it's not like the Linux devs have the specs for NTFS, they just do the best they can. I personally use xfat partitions or LocalSend to exchange files between platforms.
@eugenialoli @dottorblaster @janvlug that's in case anyone goes try booting flash drives with Linux on a Win10 machines, they need to be careful, reading files looks fine. I admit I once deleted the old Win 7 remains that way but I didn't write anything. Maybe the disk check utility fixed all inconveniences.