yeah i can 100% imagine myself doing that, probably a good idea not to lmao

try not to get yourself in decision paralysis, if you mess something up it’ll be pretty easy to redo it anyway because you’ve learnt it already

if you have a preference just go with it imo, it’s easier to decide on a distro after you’ve tried a few

i disagree, ads are mostly harmful to platforms like this because anyone with a brain sees an ad and sees some exploitative corporate mess behind it

you could also make an alias for rm that just move things to the trash bin thingy

I had a problem once booting into linux with it enabled, this was quite a while ago and it works fine now but mint could be running on a kernel old enough to have problems with it?

seems like a secure boot issue, make sure in your bios settings:

• Windows fast boot is disabled
• Secure boot is disabled
• AVX512 is disabled (if you have an option for it in cpu settings)

you don’t need to settle on a distro straight away, try them out and switch off you don’t like them

i love it when people can just buy themselves out of bad publicity <3