Got an old laptop from a friend I’d like to rejuvenate, the plan is to set up a light distro so it wouldn’t be as slow as it is right now with windows 10.

Now, I’m aware windows updates can fuck up a dual boot system, so i have a few questions about how to minimize the threat of that happening.

What i think of doing is running a few scans to check the disk, then setting up Linux Mint, because it is beginner friendly, and (relatively) light weight.

What I’d need help with is trusted guides and also tips for setting up dual booting, I’m sure I’ll need to do disk partitioning and I’ve done that before but I’d still want to make sure I’m doing it correctly.

Any help would be welcome.

    • BlackRoseAmongThorns@slrpnk.netOP
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      6 hours ago

      Swimmingly :)

      The laptop is way faster and apparently installing clang is super simple, so developing on linux is expected to go smooth.

      I’m going to go with what one of the commenters said and disable the windows booting option and install an NTFS reading program to reach the files in that partition.

      I’m very glad i did this, it was planned for months and now I’m very excited :D