Welcome!

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Please reach out if you have trouble. Make a buddy if you don't have one!

If I could I would upvote this twice 😄

"my friend recommended I use Ubuntu"

me (screaming internally, about canonical, about snaps, about bloat): "That... that's good. Good choice."

Out of curiosity, why in 14 days?

You have to share what this is now.

I see no issues here…

Windows is the worst setup you could imagine and they're ditching that. Sounds like a win to me.

This laptop came with an onboard intel graphics card AND an NVIDIA graphics card!

Oh fuck

A laptop 😣

As another person had suggested, test with a live image first before installing it to an SSD/HDD, however Linux is very well maintained by the community and even if there aren’t native drivers from your hardwares manufacturer, for example Corsair Keyboard Drivers, there usually is Open Sourced alternatives for these things like CKB-Next.

I say this to everyone, once you get a grasp on BASH (Bourne Again Shell) and package managers & repositories (edit: and the filesystem structure) you’ll essentially be able to use any Linux distro, it just comes down to the nitty gritty of things.

Yes. In general - it's called live cd. Some distros ship with that in their installed image. {K,X,}ubuntu come to mind. Mint might do as well. You can boot into it and look around, see if basic stuff - network, audio, etc - works.

Btw you can check your laptop model in https://linux-hardware.org/

Its just fun man. Before I tried linux seriously, I thought it was ridiculous. Why would you care so much about doing extra random bull shit? Except thats literally like 99% of the fun. You dont have to do any of it these days. Most stuff runs out of box pretty well. People just do it because its fun to experiment. You learn so much about computers its addicting. I even learned some powershell for windows and zsh for mac because now I understand how they work better after reading books about the linux kernel. I used to be weirdly judgemental about mac and linux users, now I just want people to have a computer that fits their needs.

Its not for everyone, but my wife got so jealous of watching me try Mint/Ubuntu/Debian that she joined linux over a year ago. Her homepage is now the Fedora newsletter. She is a normal person who was only mildly interested in computers before and now we talk about Debian/Fedora all the time. If you like computers, its worth giving it a shot. Just dont blame yourself if it isnt your cup of tea.

It's penguins all the way down

Congrats on dating Elizabeth Olsen!

I like it when people talk about how shitty microsoft is.