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@Xdqwerty, hm, I'm not familiar with that software, however, a lot of distributions offer a live test environment that they themselves build. No changes will be permanent though so any software you install on it is temporary, and would need to be reinstalled next time you boot the live image. https://www.debian.org/CD/live/+1 -
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@K3Nv3,
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Sicklyboy:
Alternatively, if you have two flash drives, you could boot an installer on one flash drive, and install it onto the second flash drive. Then you can make permanent changes to the Linux install, but still remove the flash drive to "undo" any changes to the PC
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@Sicklyboy, well for some reason I never asked this before but what if someone sees i'm using another OS? -
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@Sicklyboy, and well I have a USB that I mostly use to transfer PS3 games so maybe I could use that
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@Xdqwerty, true, I suppose that is a different concern. Depends on if you think you could explain your way out of it (lie), explain that it doesn't change anything on the computer and is only a program that runs from the USB drive (sort of lie). Not that lying is a good idea lol. Also, depends on if you think others would notice it is different. Using KDE Plasma desktop environment (default in Debian) looks not too different from WIndows 10. The file explorer looks very different, but if you're just using other programs like web browsers, it looks similar
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K3Nv3:
Yeah os won't really give a huge boost in performance if that's what you're specifically after
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Sicklyboy:
Close enough to Windows that my parents wouldn't notice, for example (although my parents are probably a little older than yours, I would imagine)
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in Linux you first look for software for your version of the OS, then you look for how to install this software, then you look for how to install all the dependencies, and after 4 hours of compilation and installation it turns out that one of the smallest dependencies is not supported by your version of the OS and the program cannot be installed
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lapot2:
And you get an uninstalled program and 146 GB of hard drive space filled with God knows what and where.
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Xdqwerty:
@lapot2, yeah something that Windows is better than Linux is that you don't have to compile every single software you download+1
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@Xdqwerty, you'll have your own system someday I didn't even know what a performance boost was when I was your age
