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Oh I’m sorry C: you’ve only got 6GB free? Only six fucking gig? We used to boot the OS off fucking floppy drives but I’m so so sorry that six entire gigabytes of free space isn’t enough for you you poor starving thing. You’ve been experiencing worse and worse memory issues for months and now you’re freezing and crashing every few minutes because why, you just can’t make 6 gig work? Grow the fuck up.

On the plus side having to hard reboot my computer every 5 minutes is finally convincing me to (very very slowly through multiple reboots) back up my files and switch this machine over to Linux like I’ve been meaning to do for a good couple of years now

I’ll just move some of this junk onto an old external and –

OH COME ON

Computer’s on Ubuntu now with plenty of space on its nice clean hard drives. If this doesn’t solve the freezing and crashing issues then I’m going to have to peel him open and start replacing his organs.

Downside: now I have to go hunting for all the add-ons and stuff to make my computer experience how I like it again. This is a horrible use of screen space and I forgot that every website has stupid fucking popups and stuff in the corners.

Computer of theseus

Every home computer should be a Computer of Theseus. Right to repair, fuck yeah.

When I was dealing with a similar issue I saw a lot of people reporting issues with windows filling up their hard drives by creating log files and temp files and whatnot that just keep bloating in size forever when they absolutely should not be doing that. It’s apparently a pretty common problem.

I managed to find a fix for myself, but I’m definitely coming closer and closer to following in your footsteps and doing the work to get Linux set up.

Common distributions of Linux aren’t all that much work; if you’re a casual user like me then Ubuntu’s not any harder to install and work with than Windows is. You install it and you go, same as Windows. But installing any operating system on a computer is mildly annoying because you’ve got to download your programs and install your ad blockers and sign into all your “keep me signed in” stuff again. I use like four programs and four websites so my main problem is reinstalling all my favourite Steam games.

That’s really good to know!

Gives a solid starting point of making sure I have a list of all the programs that will need re-installing/replacing. (and various backups made) That’s a project I can slowly chip away at until I’ve got a weekend where my brain feels like doing fiddly busy-work, and I’ve got plenty of reading to catch up on while stuff installs.

The problem with Linux is that people who give advice on Linux are Linux nerds who make everything sound way more complicated than it is. It’s like of you go to a Spider-Man fan and say “where should I get started with Spider-Man media?” and they give you a complex timeline of several decades’ worth of comics and how they interrelate to each other and warn you about all the crossover events in other heroes’ stories and give you advice on tracking down digital versions of the particularly rare comics when really like. You can just watch a random Spider-Man cartoon and it’s fine.

If you want to develop software in a hyperoptimised workflow then choosing a really specific Linux distribution and carefully choosing what to install and jury rigging some stuff is probably important. If, like me, you just want to fuck around on the internet, play computer games, and use basic word processing and image editing programs, Ubuntu or Mint or any of the other big distros will work fine for you right out of the box and it won’t matter all that much which one you pick.

My mother uses a Linux desktop just fine and she doesn’t use computers.

The problem with Linux is that people who give advice on Linux are Linux nerds who make everything sound way more complicated than it is.

Please, if you are new to Linux, please stick to the beginner friendly distros like Ubuntu (I dont like the current version), Fedora (I dont know shit about Fedora) and Mint (FAVORITE). If someone says Arch, Kali, or something else, don’t listen to them. Don’t try to prove that you’re such a cool nerd with computers that you could compile your own kernel. Please, if you are NEW to Linux, please take a distribution that is MEANT for you.

Another advantage of the really popular distros like Ubuntu and Mint is that thousands and thousands of other regular people are also using them, so if you do run into a weird problem, someone else has already run into it and had it explained to them in very simple words on the forums where you can very easily find it. If you pick some cool fringe super-efficient distro that only nine people are using and six of them built it, any problem you have is not getting solved.

Ubuntu and Mint are incredibly casual friendly (I’ve got Mint on one of my laptops and from memory I don’t remember ever having to use the command line on it even once). If you can use Windows or Mac, then you can use Mint, they run exactly the same for a casual user.

Can confirm as a new Mint user it’s been exactly as easy as if not easier than windows to deal with

I don’t think I needed to do any terminal based bullshit to get basic web browsing/media/etc stuff working.

The straw that broke the camel’s back in my case was that I could change the audio balance after a windows update unless I went into the registry and did some regedit stuff and added values there.

In linux it’s just a goddamn slider on the audio settings page.

Also, with any major mainstream Linux distro (like Mint), you will get 99% of your software for free by opening the software manager, clicking a couple of buttons, and waiting a minute or three while it downloads and installs it for you.

i dont know how to do anything, how do you trade mint for windows in the first place

You can download it from the website!

https://linuxmint.com/

You will need to put it on something external (a CD drive or a flash drive or something) in order to install it. Assuming you have a modern computer (and probably don’t have a CD drive), then the easiest way is to boot it from a flash drive. Most people have a billion flash drives lying around but if you’ve moved on from flash drives, you can pick them up cheap at any electronics store or even the supermarket. (Once you’re done installing Mint, you can use the flash drive for other things. If you’re too young to have used flash drives, they are very small external hard drives that you can put files on and plug into your computer to read the files. You might use your phone or a cloud service to do this; we used to do it with flash drives).

If you’re a millennial who used to pirate games and stuff, you’re already familiar with image booting. If it’s new to you, do not panic.

After you have downloaded the iso from the website, Make the bootable USB with these instructions.

Boot Linux with these instructions.

Don’t panic. You’re going to see some new words and do some unfamiliar things but remember: it is impossible to fuck this up. If you somehow mess up making the USB, you can format the USB and try again. If you somehow fuck up the installation, you can reinstall without breaking anything. So long as you don’t go randomly fucking around in the BIOS (DO NOT go randomly fucking around in the BIOS), you cannot break anything.

This will destroy everything you have on Windows (unless you keep both OSs which is a bit more complicated). Replacing your operating system is like getting a totally new computer. All of your Windows stuff will be gone. Save all of your files somewhere else first the same way you would if you were going to throw out your computer.

#huh#that changes my opinion on#everything#related to Linux#yeah def gonna do this at some point#I do have a question tho#does installing Linux kill any viruses on the computer?#thats the last anxiety I have about this

Replacing your operating system will replace all of the data on your computer, including any viruses. Depending on the virus, your files (which you should save elsewhere before installing because they will be destroyed on the computer) might be infected.

Traditionally, Linux isn’t vulnerable to Windows viruses and vice versa. But I don’t know enough about computer viruses to know if that’s still true; my information is like ten or fifteen years out of date. People come up with new ways to exploit vulnerabilities in systems all the time and I have no idea whether it’s possible to create a single virus that can infect both systems. Traditionally, Linux has also been considered to have less viruses than Windows simply because it’s always been much less popular and therefore less worth anybody’s time to make viruses for; I’d be very surprised if that one is still true.

But yes, replacing your operating system with Linux or reinstalling Windows on it would both destroy any viruses that are currently on your computer.

the odds of a virus that was on windows still working on Linux are like….if it happens go buy a lottery ticket. It’s TECHNICALLY possible, if a bunch of weird conditions are all true, but no one who’s creating a general use virus is going to bother to make it so that all of those conditions would be true. It would have to be a situation where someone is out to get you specifically. And also for viruses to work on Linux you pretty much have to run them on purpose.