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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

Also don't worry about turning secureboot off. It makes it a lot less annoying and gets rid of a lot of issues. Also also steam doesn't like running on linux and having it's library on windows filesystem you gotta format them both, if your games are on a separate drive.

There you go, the two hurdles i had with linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours 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)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I have four pieces of advice

  1. btrfs file system for easy backup and recovery
  2. Encrypt your drive
  3. use an ad blocker everywhere
  4. 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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

What's wrong with EXT4 ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours 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!