Anyone that wants to test this can and boot your PC to it. You'll probably have to screw around in the BIOS to turn on Legacy boot and turn off TPM. On some machines you can call up a boot menu by hitting the Esc or F9 keys. Every brand of PC is different, which sucks. Remember to undo any changes, in BIOS/UEFI, after testing Linux Mint live. Make sure that you run it live and don't install it by mistake, unless you really love the change. That's okay to do if you have a recent drive image that can be restored should you find out you can't live without the crusty code that is Windows 10.
I do this in our computer shop when pulling the drive is more work than booting to Linux to back up files or run a Windows virus scanner offline.
Anyone that wants to test this can [download the live Mint distro](https://linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=261) and boot your PC to it. You'll probably have to screw around in the BIOS to turn on Legacy boot and turn off TPM. On some machines you can call up a boot menu by hitting the Esc or F9 keys. Every brand of PC is different, which sucks. Remember to undo any changes, in BIOS/UEFI, after testing Linux Mint live. Make sure that you run it live and don't install it by mistake, unless you really love the change. That's okay to do if you have a recent drive image that can be restored should you find out you can't live without the crusty code that is Windows 10.
I do this in our computer shop when pulling the drive is more work than booting to Linux to back up files or run a Windows virus scanner offline.
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