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Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How hard is it for laymen people to install and use it? Are there step by step instruction available?

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  • Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ironically, I think it is harder for tech savy people. I have three hard drives and Mint struggled to put ext4 on my m.2, solution was use bftrs as a file system. Other than that googling and copy pasting the solution into terminal.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Are there step by step instruction available?

    You may very well need specific instructions to convince your motherboard to boot to the Linux live USB media.

    Although, if you replace the Windows harddrive with a blank harddrive, many motherboards will then do the right thing and boot to the Linux live USB key.

    (Warning: Get your files off the Windows drive first. The windows drive is probably encrypted, and so won’t be useful for recovering files later.)

    Getting booted into the Linux live media is by far the hardest part.

    Once you’re booted into the Linux Mint Live USB key, make sure Linux Mint detected and is able to get on the Internet. You’ll need your wifi password.

    Once you’re happy with that, click “Install Linux Mint” and just follow the prompts. The hardest question for me was remembering what my time zone is.

    Linux Mint will tell you when to reboot, and will even remind you to remove the Live Media USB key.

    Reboot and enjoy Linux.

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    • themaninblack@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep most BIOSes will have a toggle for Secure Boot. Make off.

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  • ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is the official Linux Mint installation guide: linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io

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  • CaptKoala@lemmy.ml ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve had a techy mate have issues installing mint, but I had no issues and have dailied it as an OS only reverting to windows in extreme cases.

    If you’re not dual booting it’s simple as. My friend has had issues dual booting on the same drive, whereas I went one drive per OS and butter smooth. Nice to be able to recover one drive from another without external tools.

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  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Getting a modern motherboard to boot to a USB key is still a royal pain in the ass.

    Pro tip: if you have the luxury of a spare hard drive, use it. Pull the old windows drive out entirely and set it aside to pull backups from later.

    Once the Linux live USB is up, just click install and then “next” a bunch of times.

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  • mlg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Pretty straightforward actually, plenty of distros even ship their own USB flasher tool so that you don’t have to use rufus.

    Definitely step by step instructions available and even official videos now.

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• FinishingDutch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Which distro would you recommend for gaming? I usually hear people like Mint for that.

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  • Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I play old games and interestingly had better FPS with default Mint than default Bazzite. Old like the last golden age 90s 2000s.

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  • Iseja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Mint is good for gaming and simple for most people but there are other distros which run newer versions of software or/and has more access to software. I generally use distros based on arch, such as EndeavourOS with the caveat that they sometimes break.

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  • uienia@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bazzite or CachyOS (Bazzite for ease, CachyOS for performance).

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  • ilillilillilillililli@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Bazzite has been excellent on my older AM4 desktop with mid range AMD card. Steam came ready to roll and performance was so close to Win 10 LTSC, that I have yet to try a different distro.

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    • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I can’t recommend Bazzite. You can’t install new drivers if something doesn’t work right out of the box and that is just a complete no go for many people.

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      • IratePirate@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yes, Bazzite adds complexity due to its immutable nature.

        But then again, if you have driver issues on Linux (which has become reasonably rare these days), they’re hard to resolve either way, particularly as a beginner.

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