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• @Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2026-11-15 11:52

  I don’t actually get it why is OS a different story - they don’t sound like advanced users so all they use the OS is for UI to click on icons to run apps? 15-20 years ago in my parents distro-hopping days (I never really gave them much choice, but due to hardware & distro changes over time they used a new distro every few years, then after that Debian for the longest time, now Tumbleweed for maybe 5~7 years) they didn’t actually much notice changes in OS or DE. I do get (rare) questions if a very specific function changes, but that’s usually within an app (eg in Firefox). (About the same experience with grandparents & non-gaming friends.) That said I ofc recommend buying an additional (new/used) SSD, installing Linux on it, copying the relevant data from the Windows hard drive to it, & then disconnecting the power to the old drive (before all that you gotta have a backup of all the important things as standard practice, after installing Linux too).

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