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I grew up with mac, but I was always so frustrated that I couldn't play the games and run the programs my friends could on their computers. I finally bought my own PC in high school, and was so happy to have the control I always wanted. I haven't switched to Linux yet, but at this point it's inevitable; I'm just dragging my feet on figuring it out.
I installed Linux mint last night and honestly it was a lot easier than I thought. I work on Mac and game on windows usually.
It took a couple of hours (mainly rebooting my machine over and over because it's so beat up) but the install and documentation held my hand most of the way, and a YouTube video covered the rest.
Now I get to see how smooth it is to use before I put it on my main machine.
A lot of people suggest a dual-boot (more technical, but it will run faster than virtualbox) as then you can just reboot the computer and use the windows "half" whenever you need to do something Linux can't handle.
Just be aware that clicking the wrong button may write over the windows part of your machine. There was a lot of "are you SURE?" confirms first though. If that makes you too nervous, then maybe try virtualbox instead first (as the others suggest).
Download VirtualBox, its free and open source. Download a few Linux isos, actual Linux isos, and fire them up in a VM to see what sticks out to you. People usually recommend Mint As a bridge from Windows, personally I'm liking PopOS a lot more than I thought I would. Both are based on Ubuntu which is ubiquitous. I hear a lot about immutable distros, but I haven't ventured there yet. Point is you can figure it out for free and completely without hassle.
Thanks for the tips! I'll have to check that out.
VMs are a good way to dip your toes, but honestly, doesn't hurt to boot from a USB and try that way too. That's how I checked of Fedora, which I stuck with and now dual boot with. I rarely go to my Windows partition unless there's something I have to do that can't be done on Linux.
I don't touch terminal often, and I use Fedora Silverblue, which is immutable, making it harder for me to fuck up my system somehow. I have used the rollback feature due to updates with the kernel breaking bluetooth, so there's the bright side of rollback distros.
like shitpost OSes?
My daily driver is Hannah Montana Linux, keeping amongOS running in my server
as God intended o7
Sometimes the term 'linux ISOs" are used to describe other less innocent files
like porn? how would you setup porn in a vm? still confused 😭
Lol maybe sometimes porn but usually just pirated digital media. As in 'I have 32TB of Linux ISOs.'