Why wait? Hell, you can test out a live distro in a virtual machine to start learning about it right now before taking the big leap. Unless you’re already familiar with Linux anyways. 🐧
Indeed I am. I already have a dual-boot setup on my laptop (not yet on my desktop) but need to finish testing Linux alternatives and/or running under WINE for some of my Windows-only software. I’ve been slowly chipping away at that over the past few months and expect to continue to do so over the next few as well, after which I hope to be ready to completely switch over.
Same boat! I’ve switched over two of my lesser used devices to Mint already (an old surface tablet and my work laptop), only hesitation is with my gaming machine. Everything has been set up just how I like it so I’m not eager to start from scratch there but once I’m confident and comfortable on my work laptop I’ll make the switch there too
I’m so mad that I’m going to call customer support, they’re going to look at my social security, phone number, password, whatever in recall, and I don’t have a choice except to not interact with other people on computers.
Doesn’t surprise me one iota. This is why I will be abandoning Windows next year and moving to Linux and doing the same for my parents.
Why wait? Hell, you can test out a live distro in a virtual machine to start learning about it right now before taking the big leap. Unless you’re already familiar with Linux anyways. 🐧
Indeed I am. I already have a dual-boot setup on my laptop (not yet on my desktop) but need to finish testing Linux alternatives and/or running under WINE for some of my Windows-only software. I’ve been slowly chipping away at that over the past few months and expect to continue to do so over the next few as well, after which I hope to be ready to completely switch over.
I’ve been trying to buy a new computer for years. I finally put the remaining pieces on my Christmas list lol.
Good news, Linux works well on old computers, and in many cases, you can just move the boot drive to the new hardware and you’re good.
If this is about SecureBoot stuff you’d have to get a new motherboard lol which basically means new everything sadly.
You don’t need secure boot or TPM for Linux. So you could switch today, and when you need upgraded hardware, just move the boot drive over.
I know you don’t need it for Linux, I was confused why you mentioned it.
That’s the entire context of this subthead.
I hope the transition goes smoothly for you!
Same boat! I’ve switched over two of my lesser used devices to Mint already (an old surface tablet and my work laptop), only hesitation is with my gaming machine. Everything has been set up just how I like it so I’m not eager to start from scratch there but once I’m confident and comfortable on my work laptop I’ll make the switch there too
While dual booting into Pop, I can see my Windows SSD and all of its contents. It might make testing a little easier for you!
Running games from the NTFS partition won’t work very well/at all, you’ll want to redownload those to a Linux filesystem.
I was speaking more of any of their applications they were wanting to run through Wine for testing purposes.
I’ve been running games from an NTFS drive through Lutris with no issues.
I’m so mad that I’m going to call customer support, they’re going to look at my social security, phone number, password, whatever in recall, and I don’t have a choice except to not interact with other people on computers.