Especially curious about the initial step of getting rid of all the built-up crud

burger king will never love me like that

On phones

It’s kinda like Japanese keyboards

Huh. I was going to have an external HD for games with two partitions: a larger one for PC, formatted in ntfs, and a smaller one for Linux, for if I want to try gaming with it, and formatted in ext4. You’re suggesting that both should be in exfat, instead?

I appreciate the input, thank you. When you say live USB, is it one that contains the original data used to create the distro — like, e.g. what I’d download from Mint? Or do you mean to just copy the whole LInux partition (given that it’s small enough) onto a USB?

Yeah, it’s sad and part of what makes me happy seeing this post. Knowing her daughter is a celebrity means Minnie will be remembered that much longer

I looked into this little bit.

So on a 512gb hd an e.g. breakdown:

Windows 150gb
Linux / 30gb
Linux /home ? 70gb
Data (nfts format, shared with both os) 262gb (or whatever is actually left over)

(I’ll have an external HD for games)

I appreciate the tips, thank you. When you mention making a separate home partition in Linux: my understanding is that we unallocate hard drive space from Windows and, when we first install Linux, it will use that free space to make its own partition. Are you referring to another step, beyond that?

Thank you!

I think that’s where I’m at, too, where I don’t mind have to re-do certain things down the road if I switch approaches or commit to a certain direction

I plan to look into this ofc, but if the games are on an external hd, would Linux use the same files as Windows? I.e. you don’t need two copies of the game so long as it’s on a format like NTFS that both can read? Was wondering whether to partition the external HD to have a Windows side and then a Linux side, with the latter formatted to ext4

All my games are off steam currently lol. I’m hearing the collective message of how feasible Linux is for gaming, tho

Keeping windows is also an “in case” measure because I’m ignorant with both OS, at this point: in case some use case comes up where having Windows is easiest to get something done. My goal is to keep to Linux as much as possible. Purely because I want to become familiar with it

I was going to put games on an external hard drive, at least for Windows side. Maybe I should also partition the external HD and have an ext4 formatted partition for when I decide to game on the Linux side?

Main game rn is BG3. And ofc want to get back into playing modded Skyrim. There are definitely other, pc only games that are on my list, coming from a Mac. But nothing like LoL or CS:2

Nice,. thank you. And ntfs for the data format is what I’ve understood to use

This is with a laptop. So one would have to be on an external drive. That wouldn’t slow it down?

Just out of curiosity, if the games are on an external hard drive with a different format does that skirt the issue between Linux steam and ntfs?

I’m aware of being the exception, but I liked it and view it as the real sequel to the first movie. It’s an appropriately tongue in cheek satire. The director knew what she was doing

No love for 4?