Hi, not OP. May i ask, can you briefly expand a little bit about windows trying to sabotage a dual boot? Since when is this happening? I remember having a dual boot some 7 years ago, but can’t remember any sabotage issues. Is this because of the now enforced bios updates and such?
With windows 10/11 after most updates you will get your boot partition overwritten… At least that’s what I read on different forums. I haven’t used windows on my personal PC for over 15 years.
There are all kinds of issues that are being reported after Windows updates. In my opinion it just isn’t worth the hassle. I tried dual booting for a while but I quickly got fed up. I absolutely would not recommend it for a beginner.
I recently replaced my laptop and would like to try mint on the old one. How would i go about wiping windows and installing Linux? I’m not super the savvy, but i am a quick study…
Underneath it was said that Mint will “deal with deleting windows”. What it really does is ask “do you want to use the whole hard drive?”
If you say “yes”, it will erase windows and whatever else was on the hard drive, including any photos and documents and such. Which you can of course copy on a USB stick beforehand.
“Explaining Computers” is a great YouTube channel that covers Linux quite a lot. I think he recently did a video about installing Linux Mint. There’s plenty of this stuff around. Just search "installing your-distro-of-choice"and you’ll get plenty of content. I’d suggest watching a few of those before getting started.
Hi, not OP. May i ask, can you briefly expand a little bit about windows trying to sabotage a dual boot? Since when is this happening? I remember having a dual boot some 7 years ago, but can’t remember any sabotage issues. Is this because of the now enforced bios updates and such?
With windows 10/11 after most updates you will get your boot partition overwritten… At least that’s what I read on different forums. I haven’t used windows on my personal PC for over 15 years.
There are all kinds of issues that are being reported after Windows updates. In my opinion it just isn’t worth the hassle. I tried dual booting for a while but I quickly got fed up. I absolutely would not recommend it for a beginner.
I recently replaced my laptop and would like to try mint on the old one. How would i go about wiping windows and installing Linux? I’m not super the savvy, but i am a quick study…
Underneath it was said that Mint will “deal with deleting windows”. What it really does is ask “do you want to use the whole hard drive?”
If you say “yes”, it will erase windows and whatever else was on the hard drive, including any photos and documents and such. Which you can of course copy on a USB stick beforehand.
When you install Mint, it’ll deal with deleting windows on its own.
Installing it will be broken down mostly into:
A much better guide (with pictures!) is https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Thanks!
“Explaining Computers” is a great YouTube channel that covers Linux quite a lot. I think he recently did a video about installing Linux Mint. There’s plenty of this stuff around. Just search "installing your-distro-of-choice"and you’ll get plenty of content. I’d suggest watching a few of those before getting started.
Appreciate it