Finally, after some time I made the switch to #Linux !
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Here is my experience and the hiccups I found :
- It was hell to find how to boot on the USB drive. You needed to disable secure boot and it didn't tell you that anywhere, as far as I can tell
- It was easy enough to set up, connect to wifi etc
- Strangely Firefox has a bigger top app bar, instead of all the icons and tabs being on a single row, there are 2 rows (one with the tab name, and another one with the actual tabs
- The fingerprint reader could be set up, but when trying to log in it always says fingerprint not recognized
- Keyboard shortcuts changed, for example screenshots can't be done using Win Shift S, the clipboard history doesn't work by default etc
- The key to mute my mic doesn't work, and is not recognized as a key. The other keys like disabling the trackpad work fine.
- I like how typing the name of software from windows like paint and notepad gives the linux equivalent
@linux
I am thinking I might try Linux Mint on the laptop but I'm kind of terrified of blowing it up or wiping data. My laptop is getting old and I will likely be building a replacement desktop soon.
But it is a gaming laptop and has strange interactions with heat and fan speed and glowy keyboard lights and I'm afraid I'll disable some safety feature or accidentally break wifi compatibility irreversibily if I tinker too much.
@EtnaAtsume Mint install or not, you should regularly back up your data in an external drive!
Yes, installing mint on the Windows partition deletes Windows and all your files so make a backup or put them on another partition!
But without deleting your data, you can always boot from an USB stick and try thingd around in this environnement!
You don't have to install anything on your laptop if you just want to try Linux and see if it would work for you. You can just prepare a Linux Mint USB (or any other distribution really) plug it to your laptop and boot from it. This will boot into the live desktop from the USB and will not touch your drives. There you can try Linux and get a feel for it before you commit.
Backup everything you need to keep and do a fresh install