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Windflier- make a CD of the linux mint ISO- you can try it without making any changes to your computer- everything you reboot- whatever changes you made using the disk are discarded- you’ll be working in a kind of virtual operating scene and it won’t isntall anything until you’re ready if you decide to- It’s a great way to try out the OS- it’ll be a little slower booting up because it’s working off the CD- but still- you can make changes, intall stuff, etc into the virtual environment, and again, it makes no changes to your actual main os-
It’s not too hard ot make the CD- just download the mint ISO (I recommend the cinnamon version) and use a program to burn the iso to a disk- I think windows has a program already isntalled that can do so- but i don’t remember-
Then just pop the disk in, reboot your system, and a menu will coem up to boot to the CD- choose that and off you go into the wild blue yonder of linux nirvana lol
Then just pop the disk in, reboot your system, and a menu will coem up to boot to the CD- choose that and off you go into the wild blue yonder of linux nirvana lol
Okay, I'm trying it now. I (hopefully) have it burned to disk. I'll restart my computer now and see if there's a prompt that lets me boot up from the disk.
I'll let you know what happens in a minute or two.