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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (8 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] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 month ago

My only two issues were also steam on ntfs and secureboot, which are easy fixes. I'd like to add "flatpack apps not having access to another drive" as a very common beginner problem I had. Solution was easy: Add the drive in flatpack settings/flatseal or just don't flatpak.

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