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6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? (lemmy.world)

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[+] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm somewhat open to the idea, but the thought of messing up and not having any computer other than my phone until i figure it out is tough to get over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As long as you go with a mainstream distro you can’t really mess it up if you play games try bazzite it’s a atomic distro so it’s hard to break since the system files are read only and if an update breaks it has a duplicate file system to fall back on from before the update and is just as easy if not easier then windows to install

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That sounds pretty cool, actually, that it.s protected against me breaking it. I've always got that worry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You could always reinstall Windows if something does go wrong. Just create an installer USB as backup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you can install another driver onto the computer, you can put Linux on that and kept the windows OS still, in case you need it. This is dual booting. You chose which OS you want when booting up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this something that's relatively fool proof to do? I'm very good at imagining disasters. That's the big mental block I got when I thought about dual booting before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you install ventoy on a usb and put windows and bazzite on it, you can easily switch between things.

i have 15 years of experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot on matrix

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! The wall in my brain keeping me from doing it is a bit smaller now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

note that you should absolutely make a backup of all your important files before you muck about with installing different operating systems, it will wipe your drive, so, yeah.

if you do that and have both on a ventoy usb it is pretty much impossible to fuck something up