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SSD crapped itself finally, so good excuse as any to do the switch.

  1. Linux Mint? Is that recommended? Is this the one "you wish you started with"?

  2. I have some files on my HDD, I would rather not lose any of them, can they still run on Linux?

  3. Gaming. Any suggestions on running Steam and such?

I don't want "if this doesn't work out, I can stick with Windows." Fuck, I'm sick of Windows, when/where do you learn to love Linux? Thanks for your help.

Edit: Holy shit you guys respond fast. Thank you, you all deserve a beer. I won't know everything at the start, I was only hoping for some training wheels (tutorial vids) on how to do the basics.

I lied a bit, I still have an old gaming laptop (where I'm posting now). It runs Minecraft on medium (and I still love her). I'm already transferring files to it just in case.

SSD crapped itself finally, so good excuse as any to do the switch. 1. Linux Mint? Is that recommended? Is this the one "you wish you started with"? 2. I have some files on my HDD, I would rather not lose any of them, can they still run on Linux? 3. Gaming. Any suggestions on running Steam and such? I don't want "if this doesn't work out, I can stick with Windows." Fuck, I'm sick of Windows, when/where do you learn to love Linux? Thanks for your help. Edit: Holy shit you guys respond fast. Thank you, you all deserve a beer. I won't know everything at the start, I was only hoping for some training wheels (tutorial vids) on how to do the basics. I lied a bit, I still have an old gaming laptop (where I'm posting now). It runs Minecraft on medium (and I still love her). I'm already transferring files to it just in case.

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  1. If by "run" you mean "execute," then you can use emulators or compatibility layers to do that, but not everything is supported. Other than that, NTFS is supported by Linux distros, so you'll be able to browse and work with the files, assuming they're in some format other programs recognize. Images, music, text, office-like files, etc. are all widely supported.

  2. No experience here, so can't advise you. I'm sure someone else can.

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Nice. At least I have those.

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Dont try to use NTFS as a primary drive in linux, mount it, get the stuff off of it, and then reformat into ext4 or something else. Youw ould be surprised by the misc problems that come up attempting to use an NTFS volume.

When i first swapped out of winblows, I left the games on the NTFS volume they were on. Lots of games failed to run properly, even reinstalling them to the NTFS volume.

Once I eliminated that last vestige of winblows from my machine, all the things worked.