That makes sense. Thanks for the detailed reply.

Though you could ask this to OP, they might try it. Personally I don’t use NTFS even on my external HDDs.

Huh, interesting. Didn’t know about mklink. So with this, can Steam games be used from NTFS directory?

Well, technically Steam expects a file system to act as a Linux file system. Since some features that Linux file systems support do not exist on NTFS, it doesn’t work correctly.

By the way, if you’re gonna use Proton for a game, you can backup and reinstall it by using that backup on Linux. You don’t have to download it again.

NTFS doesn’t support symlinks, so it doesn’t work correctly from NTFS partition. Also it is possible that you can corrupt those files on NTFS partition by doing that.

Basically don’t mix Windows stuff with Linux stuff when running programs. It’s okay for media.

The license isn’t the best? That license sucks. Probably one of the worst on Github.

Wait, Pop_OS switched to rolling release?

First of all, welcome.

Don’t try to install many different distros in a short span unless you are a distro-hopper. Just pick one and do everything on that. Manjaro would cause problems especially if you enable AUR. If you want cutting-edge and still want to use GUI for management, I suggest OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

For hard disk read-only situation, that happens with NTFS partitions for safety reasons. You can change that with Gnome Disks by setting auto mount and user options. Know that NTFS is a Windows file system and runs on a compatibility system on Linux.

It’s better to start with beginner friendly distros. Some people even settle with one distro and use it without changing ever. Unless you want to discover under-the-hood features, most distros will look the same.

Also, things work differently on Linux. Once you get used to them, you’ll find them more straightforward comparing to Windows. However, getting used to them might be a challenge for some people. Get ready to read Wikis.

Don’t be hasty. Continue to use Windows until you feel ready while creating your ideal workspace.

Go for functionality before starting customization anything, you can do that anytime.

I think that’s nice as long as people can jailbreak them.

While this is true for my another older netbook (40 W), my netbook’s power consumption for running Pi-hole is ~15 W. I think it’s acceptable for such operation. 5 W is tempting though.

I’m using my old netbook as Pi-hole and some home server stuff. Does its job.

Depends on what you need actually. I was doing fine with urxvt on Xorg, so foot is a perfect alternative for me on Wayland.

It doesn’t use Visual Basic for its macros so I wouldn’t expect a complex compatibility. To be fair Excel macros is usually a problem outside of MS Office.

It’s not open source but probably has the best compatibility. You can give it a shot.

https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

Needs an account after one week though.

Not Linux but Haiku would run on it I think.

As a calligrapher, this is not pleasing to look at. Far from it.

I assume you’ve never used Linux long enough to get a grip. You would get there if you use it long enough.

However, operating systems are just tools. Use which one is easy for you. If you have no spare time to learn a new OS, just use what you know. Though Microsoft’s latest shenanigans really force some people to switch to other OSes.

I think I used to do that with wicd.

I’m kinda lazy so when I need one, I just use Gnome Boxes and it’s pretty easy to setup.

Well, it changes after you start to use them. With enough experience, you’ll start to think that, “I don’t like this feature that much, how would it be this way?”, and there is probably already a WM that does it.

I started using WMs long ago but my first tiling WM was i3 as well. However configuring it to the way I like was taking a lot of time, so I was in a search for a WM that does what I like out of the box. After searching I have found bspwm. It is still my go-to WM if I use Xorg, but I moved to Wayland recently and Hyprland was the easy choice. Though currently I’m reading river’s documentation and I’m thinking to switching to it when I feel ready. From what I read, it can do what I want, with enough configuring. And it seems really flexible.

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