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Additionally, what changes are necessary for you to be able to use Linux full time?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wanted to dual boot linux and windows but installed linux on the wrong drive partition and wrote over all of my data. Decided i was too stupid for linux. To be fair that was 3 years ago, maybe ill try again soon

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If you try again, follow a dual-boot guide for your distro. Also, make your root and home partitions separate, so if you run into issues, you can reset safely.

[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try again and learn from your mistakes. Installing linux is nothing compared to much more difficult tasks

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I spent three days installing Arch from scratch. After I got it working, I wiped everything and did it again and again, I wrote 2 simple script to automate the process, and after I was done, I wiped everything and installed Manjaro lol.

It's a good learning experience, I recommend every new Linux user do it in a sandbox at least once.