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…
“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.
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.
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…
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.
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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.