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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Mint is pretty close to “for dummies”.

Put it on a flash drive. Boot it. When asked “do you want to install mint or do you want to try it out”, click “try it out”. You’ll end up in a live environment of Mint (a copy that doesn’t save any changes/downloaded files) that you can explore all you want. Unless you start messing with the hard drive from there, you can change most settings without any risk of breaking anything. If you mess something up, turn it off and boot it again.

If Mint doesn’t run to your liking, grab another Linux distro and try that from your flash drive. Find out which one feels best to you and install that to the laptop.

Just be aware that Linux running from a flash drive will probably be quite slow compared to real Linux.

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