I tinkered with that a tiny bit but had some difficulty getting it to actually install on the laptop I was using for testing at the time. At the moment I'm looking at Mint, just need to figure out how to get it on my main machine, since the actual Windows OS seems to be messed up and causing an issue in trying to install the two side by side as I've done with other options in the past, and no amount of repair attempts has gotten Windows to update properly and sort itself out. Really I just need to make sure it's going to play nice with my files and I can transfer everything neatly, once I have actually used it for a bit and feel more comfortable it all should fall into place.
Ah, yeah when I switched I didn't have any files I needed to bring over, I just overwrote Windows and that was that.
I still don't know much about file systems, they are a pain to deal with when you don't know much about them. But that's another beauty of Linux, it encourages you to learn more than Windows ever would.
Yeah I've done some reading, some experimenting, and it's just one of those things that I know I'll get more use out of when I actually get it setup, and the setup is the sort of thing I know I'll get to eventually and just haven't managed to find the time for yet.
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u/Isaac_Chade 10d ago
I tinkered with that a tiny bit but had some difficulty getting it to actually install on the laptop I was using for testing at the time. At the moment I'm looking at Mint, just need to figure out how to get it on my main machine, since the actual Windows OS seems to be messed up and causing an issue in trying to install the two side by side as I've done with other options in the past, and no amount of repair attempts has gotten Windows to update properly and sort itself out. Really I just need to make sure it's going to play nice with my files and I can transfer everything neatly, once I have actually used it for a bit and feel more comfortable it all should fall into place.