I want to make the switch but I want to test run first before fully committing. My PC has an M.2 SSD. I was thinking I could buy another one, swap them out and put Linux on that. In an emergency, I can swap the SSD back. Does this seem like a viable/sensible path toward Linux? I don’t really have too many files on my PC that I care about. I don’t want to dual boot. I did that on a laptop back in the day and it was annoying.

  • jutty@blendit.bsd.cafe
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    6 months ago

    That’s the best, safest way. By the way, you can do the same thing from a flash drive too, if it has enough space to hold the system. I don’t mean as a live temporary system, I mean you can just point the installer to a second flash drive as the install disk and it won’t care.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      But keep in mind slower read performance will make the system slower. The SSD will fly by comparison. Don’t let a flash drive fool you into thinking Linux is slow.