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I've decided to run Linux as my main os next PC build... I said that two years ago and still haven't built my new rig.
I'm terrified of switching. There's just way too much information out there. So many options.
I'm used to being in a box with just one or two ways of doing things.
Does anyone know a good series to help windows users adapt?
Just need web surfing and gaming including steam vr
I made the dive into Linux mint last night. If you already have windows installed you can side load so you don't have to completely commit right out of the box. I play games that would require windows so this was necessary for me but so far outside of hating middle mouse click to paste and some troubleshooting for my headset (I could hear myself quietly through my headphones when speaking into mic) Linux has been preferable to win11
That is not what sideload means my friend.
You're right, but the point I was trying to get across to another layman is you can have windows already installed and not break anything with another install of Linux. Rather than get into partitioning and dual booting.
Sideloading an app on a phone doesn’t have the potential to wipe everything else off the phone. It’s bad advice to call dual booting that because you might cause someone to go into it without understanding the risks involved. In fact, the best facsimile, which doesn’t even require knowing how to get into the boot menu, would be to run a Virtual Machine instead. That way there actually isn’t any risk of erasing Windows. It’s also really simple these days, here’s some guides from ubuntu and fedora:
https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/how-to-run-ubuntu-desktop-on-a-virtual-machine-using-virtualbox
https://fedoramagazine.org/install-fedora-virtualbox-guest/
Or if you don’t want to go through the hassle of installing Linux inside the VM yourself, you can download pre-built VMs for most major distros from here:
https://www.osboxes.org/virtualbox-images/
Added benefit that you can try multiple different distros without even rebooting your computer.
Sure, I'll do that. But you've lost 99% of average people when you mention "virtual machine".
Also at least for mint which I was directly talking about you actually boot via live USB first and have to install from an icon on the desktop so there really is no risk for erasing windows until your well into making decisions. Which again you have to choose to erase windows.
Yeah, so don’t say Virtual Machine. Say “you can sideload linux on windows to test it”.