Mastodawn

I desperately want to switch to Linux but I'm terrified of breaking my computer still. I'm sitting on a GTX 980 and Windows 10 (computer is old and I'm very poor).

EDIT: To clarify, I have used a bootable USB stick before to test Linux Mint. It gave me a good impression but was kinda laggy (10 year old USB ports aren't very fast).

Anyone out there willing to poke me in the right direction?

I am dependent on Discord for friends and Microsoft Teams (no matter how much I hate it) for many job search reasons. #linux #windows

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Infoseepage

@jaeder Most desktop computers support selecting the boot device at startup. If you have an old spare hard drive or SSD, you could install Linux to that and trial it without blowing away your existing Windows installation. If you want to play around with it casually, there are also many bootable Linux distros which can run from off a bootable CD-ROM or flash drive.