• Psythik@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      I’m trying but the girlfriend refuses. She watches YouTube on the TV and does everything else on her phone; literally only uses the laptop to play The Sims 4 (which her 1080ti can handle just fine), yet she’s convinced that she will need a brand new gaming machine with a 4090/5090 as soon as Microsoft dumps WIn10. She’s afraid that she’ll completely break the OS if she switches to Linux. (Which is plausible, though unlikely.

      I’m hoping she’ll change her mind as soon as she realizes just how much more GPUs cost these days, especially mobile ones.

      • vii@programming.dev
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        15 minutes ago

        Create a live USB stick and demonstrate it to her, without deleting Windows. Bonus points if you rice the fuck out of it with some kawaii shit for your GF and make Sims 4 work with Wine.

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      4 hours ago

      I have Linux on a jumpdrive can I install it on my main drive without it effecting my other drives?

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        4 hours ago

        Only the drive you install it on will be affected, but the other drives likely won’t be formatted to work with Linux.

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            4 hours ago

            Actually, Linux does support NTFS, although you won’t be able to run executables from it. I suggest getting an external HD/SSD to make a backup of all of your drives, then proceed with the switch to Linux.

          • LoveSausage@discuss.tchncs.de
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            2 hours ago

            I always had a fat32 partion available for sharing stuff when i did dualbooting. Just for saving some stuff, but limited to 4 gb files then. Ntfs works as well so either partion or separate drive

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            3 hours ago

            Are you just wanting to back up save files? I agree with the other person here, just backup the files that matter to you onto an external drive and then install Linux