Resources to test, install, and run your first instances of Linux and open source software.
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I ran dual boot for years with zero issues. Just partition the drive or use two different ones.
Mint and pop are basically ubuntu
Which makes Ubuntu basically Debian right? So just install that!
For a user coming from Windows I recommend Mint Cinnamon as it will give them the best, most familiar experience. Yes a newbie could find and install Ubuntu Cinnamon but the default ISO on the downloads page will saddle them with Gnome.
For the end user, especially a beginner, there’s 0 difference between them.
Shouldn’t be the other way around? Beginners usually won’t want to install DE’s or other stuff by hand:
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Linux Mint offers a Windows-like experience with cinnamon out of the box, and has several stuff setup by default like system snapshots and media codecs.
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Pop!_OS is really appealing visually and very comfortable to use and setup.
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Ubuntu, well, is Ubuntu. I’m not diving into it.
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If you have to dual boot, give Windows a separate disk.
Dual booting is fine if you are using 2 Linux OSes.
If one partition has windows installed an update can hijack the Linux partition or remove the grub.
Old news. I updated Winblows and nothing happened to systemd-boot.
It will depend on the update.
Either way, If I want to have a windows install, it’s either
- in a vm
- on a different physical disk that is kept physically unplugged from the motherboard until it is needed and then I’ll plug it in while unseating the Linux drives and any other drives windows does not need access to
- a different computer
This is nice but there are already tons of “how/why to start using Linux” websites. Not sure if we need another one.
