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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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How to move from Windows to Linux? (lemmy.world)

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I want to move to Linux Mint without losing data, can someone help?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can find one for $100.

You can get them substantially cheaper than that! but your point holds. A USB stick is also rather cheap - you can get a 128GB SANDisk jobbie for £10 a pop on Amazon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

please do not put your actual installed system (read/write) on a flash drive. linux will let you. it will happily install to the flash drive and it will happily boot up. it will let you log in after just a few minutes. plus ten seconds every time you click something.

please don't use flash drives for anything other than installation media unless you're using a distro that's specifically designed to be installed portably and doesn't do a ton of disk I/O.