Saved for late :^)

Had a linux moment yesterday, piped "clang --help" into grep to find something, it wasn't there but the piping itself was awesome.

Don't have anybody else to tell lol

I'm finally back, apparently linux mint comes with ntfs handling out of the box, just opened the file explorer (nemo), and opened a picture successfully.

Only step left is disabling booting through windows.

It's about the files, not the OS

Something kinda funny, installing clang is extremely simple, and gcc was preinstalled, so i already got a C development environment on vs code :)

Maybe I'll try getting a different code editor, to simplify things even more, it'll take a while though, for now vs code should be fine

It's not for professional reasons, it's all personal, plus studies, I'm not switching wholesale because i might need to access the old files (extremely unlikely, but I don't want to make decisions based on that), and the laptop has enough stirage for me to be happy with the partition i made, which is ~200GB

Swimmingly :)

The laptop is way faster and apparently installing clang is super simple, so developing on linux is expected to go smooth.

I'm going to go with what one of the commenters said and disable the windows booting option and install an NTFS reading program to reach the files in that partition.

I'm very glad i did this, it was planned for months and now I'm very excited :D

If i understand correctly, i could leave the windows install as is, but disable it from appearing during boot, and install a program to read the files from the windows partition?

If so that's actually a perfect solution :)

Following the guide as i write this :)

Hybrid sleep was luckily already disabled, and the laptop has 8GB ram so it should be fine.

Thanks, a few questions, what is a swap partition, and why is it needed?

Also i have a ton of free storage so the linux install will probably have over 200gb in its partition

Kinda need the old OS, it's a close friend's computer and it took too long to get just a few files out of it, i want to keep the rest just in case we missed something.

(Also I don't want to just backup the whole ass hard drive)