Appreciate you taking the time to break it down and explain it like this. I might convert an extra ssd into Mint and start there. Another user mentioned Proton, if I don’t like Linux, do I just use Disk Management in Windows to “delete” the Linux partition and then re-allocate it and install proton?
It seems like I can get borderlands games and tanks up and running on Mint, I’m ok with LibreOffice over Office 2010, but how does one begin to move any of this to a new OS? do I need to like take an entire day re-installing everything? Can I open it, as other have said, on an external hard drive, move stuff to the new OS, and then let it have most of the rest of the PC? (keeping maybe 500gb for windows in case I can’t find something working) how does dual boot work then? Can I just have it boot Mint all the time and then “switch user” over to windows?
How is mint day to day? This is my big concern. Something going wrong and not having the time to go digging across a dozen pages to figure it out. (I’m savvy enough to know how to work Google and get answers, but I’d rather things just work you know?) Do Nvidia drivers work the same as windows as far as manually searching for them? Who do I turn to if I have a question noone has asked before? Is there like a catalog of commands and how do I learn how to use them?
I like the idea of switching to Linux to break the strangle of windows on my hardware but I don’t know if all my games on Steam, Wargamings launcher and Automatic1111 will work properly if I made that switch. I installed Mint for a friend because I’m semi-literate and feel like messing with that…cmd window “terminal” to do…literally anything installation wise would get irritating.
I want a Linux that is as easy to use out of the box as windows. Will Mint be that way or will I have to spend 5 hours figuring out special words for commands any time I want to install something?
Talking like this? Fucking irritating in public. Speaker so loud everyone can hear, not even trying to lower their voice Like the area is loud so they gotta turn up and talk loud. You know what else solves this? Taking it off speaker and holding it to your ear like a phone.
Their phone flat out in front makes their profile larger, and I know that seems silly but that’s another foot and a half in an already cramped bus.
It’s not a nerve, in the March of progress there’s always someone at the front of the line youre not wrong., But these aren’t just in front, they’re racing the March like they want to set a new quarter mile record. Mw3 is 240gb (if you dont already have the launcher hub)
For most people who buy a console and forget about it, that’s ONE game with half the hard drive space already eaten, with 8 years left in the ps5s life, not counting support during “next gen”. It’s a lack of respect for consumers time updating it, because cod has to unpack its entire friggin size to update. Cold War demanded 180gb of “free space” to update. The game was ~160 before, and then ~165 after. It took 180gb to download 5gb. Thats half my hard drive.
Consumers will happily buy a hard drive “when it’s about that time” but consumers are not flush with cash to buy 5 externals for games each year, at the rate game sizes have gone. People also do not want to juggle what games are installed because thats a PITA too. At this stage cod should just come on an external hard drive, cartridge style.
Developers follow industry leaders. If call of duty can sell a 240gb game (mw3 on ps5 without their launcher) other publishers look and will decide to get lazy optimizing. “We’re not call of duty, our game is ONLY 70gb!” You already see this.