Laptop setup. It has 11. Keep & Dual Boot Mint, or kill the giant.

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It appears that the Gates family, avowed eugenicists, and well on their way to culling the g**s, and that giant advertisement with a sidecar operating system accessory has a death grip on much of the world's computers. Because of the endogenous ignorance that their kin have created, it is a futile act of resistance...I know that.
But, should I keep the WIN 11 just in case...of what?...or will it be straight arrow to kill it and vow to never use another MS product?
 


should I keep the WIN 11 just in case...of what?
this is your choice, think are there any windows programs/games you have that you need and cant run successfully on linux? then the answer is clear
 
But, should I keep the WIN 11 j
I am not a gamer, I do not curtail to using windows specific programs [we call them apps], so I have had no specific need of Windows for around 20yrs
[I have a full set of DVD's for XP sp2 Win 7, win8.1, win 10 professional, and win 11, these are not for my use but to fix other peoples machines when they go wrong which compared to Linux is quite often for some people ]
 
Kill it with extreme malice!

And prejudice!

Vektor
 
Is that supposed to be

Mind

or

Mint

in the title?

Wiz
 
To keep windoze or not...the choice is...wait for it...yours.
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Honestly, I don't understand: OS is just a tool. Not an ideology. I heard similar arguments 40yrs ago. It is time to grow up. Just carefully read the posy @bob466
Whatever suits your particular needs.
 
If you're not playing games, find alternatives for your software for Linux and give up Windows completely. I came to Linux as soon as I quit gaming

Did you knew? DaVinci Resolve runs now natively on Linux (I just found out) More to come
 
Honestly, I don't understand: OS is just a tool. Not an ideology. I heard similar arguments 40yrs ago. It is time to grow up. Just carefully read the posy @bob466
Whatever suits your particular needs.
@Aristarchus :-

Well, absolutely. It's all intertwined, anyway.

Without an OS, software is pointless. And without software to run on top of it, an OS is about as much use as the proverbial "chocolate teapot"; lovely to look at, but a total waste of time to try and use. Why develop an OS if you don't actually want to DO anything with it..?

The OS permits you, the user, to run whatever apps/software you choose. Without OSs to run on computer hardware - and applications/programs on top of THAT - an entire industry (comprising countless millions of people) would be scrapping around and re-training for other means of employment.

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There's a kind of "mysticism" that has grown up around the entire computing ecosystem. Different OSs have come & gone.....there will always be someone out there who's not happy with the "status quo", and will want to try and develop something that works differently. Perhaps in an entirely new way. (Take a look at Google's FuschiaOS, for instance.)

There's no "right" way - OR "wrong" way - to enable a computing experience that works for the individual use-case. Some stuff will ONLY run on either Windows or MacOS (more often than not, this will now include Android and iOS, too. Linux users will be left out.....but then, this frequently provides the spur for development of Linux-only apps that improve upon & blow the established players out of the water.)

For other stuff, Linux and/or the BSDs, etc, will run rings around the established players due to far greater flexibility. Apple, in particular, have long since shot themselves in the foot by insisting on such rigid controls regarding development of apps exclusively for their "walled garden" approach. This is the ONLY tech firm in existence that feels free to thumb its nose even at the NSA; Tim Cook seems to think that all that stockholder faith & investment has rendered his company untouchable.

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Each and every system will always have its adherents and/or fanbois, for whom their chosen environment can do no wrong. I take this view; for ultimate flexibility, use whatever works for your use-case.

  • Everything runs on Windows, but often financial considerations come into it.

  • Apple is seen as exclusive.....if you can live with that "walled garden", of course.

  • And Linux will run almost anywhere.......but there will always be a certain amount of 'hands-on' stuff involved.


Whatever 'floats your boat' - and lets you do what YOU want - is fine. It's YOUR life, after all.....not somebody else's.


Mike. :p
 
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Buy another HDD / SSD and install Linux on to it and place the Windows HDD / SSD in a plastic bag and store it away safely.

If for whatever reason things did not work out for yo than reinstall the Windows HDD / SSD and you're back to the start.
 
I do not normally respond so harshly about dealing with M$ Windows but the choice was presented in the OP so I did it.

But...

I think The Duck hit the nail directly on the head. Good advice if one can afford it.

Vektor
 
Buy another HDD / SSD and install Linux on to it and place the Windows HDD / SSD in a plastic bag and store it away safely.

If for whatever reason things did not work out for yo than reinstall the Windows HDD / SSD and you're back to the start.
Excellent. Made me grin too.
 
Buy another HDD / SSD and install Linux on to it and place the Windows HDD / SSD in a plastic bag and store it away safely.

If for whatever reason things did not work out for yo than reinstall the Windows HDD / SSD and you're back to the start.
That's a good idea, but I would let the disk pluggged in and just add the second disk to a free slot (if available).

Starting with dual boot is a safe way to check if the hardware works with a Linux distro, I had issues with 1 of 4 devices starting linux.

Current games from Steam work well with Proton and Wine Emulation and of course all SaaS Cloud and Web Apps, what is not supported can be run on the VM. So when something does not run I would additioanlly install Windows on a VM.

When all works fine, after a month, one could just delete the windows partitions and reuse it as data storage.
I have a lot of Client Machines with remaining former OSs (even Linuxs). In times of net storage and big disks there is less need (or less time) to fix this.

For Windows changers this is a smooth and safe way.
 
I second the new SSD idea. At the very least I would make an image of the drive with windows on it before you wipe it, just in case you have a warranty issue.
When I bought my Dell I made an image of the SSD and stored it away on my NAS. Then I wiped the drive and install Linux, 3 years ago now so my warranty period has passed but I keep it around just in case I ever sell it.

Bob
 

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