Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice
Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’m between living locations and can’t carry my desktop around.
So I grabbed an old laptop and put Linux mint on it. It’s been near perfect. Extremely smooth experience.
It detected my printer and auto installed. I installed steam and played Terraria without issue. Small performance problem but I don’t have a GPU. Even works good with my docking station.
My only complaint is the audio device doesn’t switch automatically when I dock/undock.
I’d recommend making a USB and boot into it for a test drive.
LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Awesome, thanks for the insight. I was actually looking at Linux Mint myself. I need around 4Gb on a USB to boot it, correct?
Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That might do it. I don’t own anything smaller than 16 GB sticks. I used Rufus on windows to make my stick.
Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Rufus is great and I still keep a copy around, but I haven’t gone back since I found Ventoy. You just run Ventoy on your stick, and then drag and drop any and all bootable ISOs into it. When you boot it, you get a list of all the ISOs to work with.
The only caveat is that you absolutely have to eject the USB, or else Ventoy probably will corrupt. That’s a small price to pay to have Arch, Mint, Fedora, NixOS, and Win11 all on one OS ISO toolkit drive, plus I always eject my drives as a rule of thumb. Then all I have to do is update them every couple months.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah I should switch to Ventoy.