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I’m going to be migrating to Linux and using Mint. I’m just paranoid about doing something wrong and accidentally walking into a security vulnerability. So I want to set aside time to properly learn things and understand what I’m doing but I’m just busy AF these days…

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misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Take it slow and do it the right way, don’t let Lemmy pressure you if you’re making slow but steady progress. It’s a learning curve for sure

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endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
This is a very valid and smart concern to have. But the scary commands all start with “sudo”, which gives everything you type in root access. Other than that linux is very secure and idiot proof as long as you read what the commands do.

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spicehoarder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I have four pieces of advice

btrfs file system for easy backup and recovery

Encrypt your drive

use an ad blocker everywhere

use virus total to scan anything you might be wary of, and if you really feel like you need an AV, they do exist for Linux.

I usually prefer Debian based systems, but when I finally ditched windows 3 weeks ago, I switched to Manjaro, and I’m loving it. You got this!
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- MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  What’s wrong with EXT4 ?
  
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- tomjuggler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  If you are worried about disk space don’t use backup on btrfs though it fills up yr drive I never encrypt my drive but maybe you should Manjaro is great though!
  
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endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Basically don’t run random sudo(superuser do, root access) commands you find on the internet without reading what the command does from docs or asking ai.

Leaving windows makes you more secure.

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- smokeymcpott@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Agreed.
  
  Had the same problem with the Steam library on a Windows filesystem and some annoyances with NTFS drives.
  
  Other than that, pretty easy overall (you have to tinker around with some games and wineversions though)
  
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  - endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    My only two issues were also steam on ntfs and secureboot, which are easy fixes. I’d like to add “flatpack apps not having access to another drive” as a very common beginner problem I had. Solution was easy: Add the drive in flatpack settings/flatseal or just don’t flatpak.
    
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