You definitely can put it to a cd or 📀, give it a try, I think you will like it. Linux has several. Tux games that are kinda a lot like Mario cart. Easy to I stay. And run. You c a n even try them out in the cd without installing mint yet, and see if they Wil, be what you like. There are a number of games to try out. All different genres
Probably your best bet is buy a really cheap laptop if you can afford one right now, format, throw jnux on it while keeping your old windows computer for now. You can also dual boot too, which is what I do. If you decide you don’t like Linux at all, no worries, just reclaim the space and expand you windows partition back to what it was for a single boot computer again.
You’ll have to look up how to do partitions though if you aren’t sure. It’s a little involved, but not too bad. Linux cd will have a utility you can install to do just that while in a virtual environmmet..
Another option, cheap one, if you are comfortable with switching out hard drives,, is buy an old used hard drive, format it, and install Linux to that. You’ll need a Linux cd to format it,or a windows cd. I have several old hard drives as backups with windows and Linux on them. My computer is set up for dual hard drives, so I simply unplug my main drive and plug another in. Works well
Thanks, I’m looking into this, already have a 2nd laptop, might need to pick ip a spare hard drive though. Not sure I have the right type.
Will look into the live cd option, would like a test drive.
Partitions - other builds have used Grub, I think it is, works well. Windows can do it, but only fat32 since linux can’t read ntfs. Not sure if I want a linux specific file system. ext or whatever. Can’t remember. ext2? Have to look it up.
Been thinking about dual boot too. Might go that route, but it’s been a while. Last one I put together was win 3.11, DOS 6.22, win98. Everything ran from a DOS boot. Switch to the right folder, type “win” and you’re off and rolling. Also had a GUI script but DOS was more fun. Initial boot had win98/DOS option from autoexec.bat. I’d usually just let it time out and boot DOS. Started to put together a win98/XP machine but decided what’s the point?