Literally yesterday I had windows 10 shit out its own asshole and corrupt itself. Nothing I could do would recover the windows install. Wouldn’t even download a new replacement in the recovery menu.
Ripped the drive out and checked the files. All my personal stuff is there. Just windows that decided it had enough.
Took this opportunity to install Linux mint. Been using it on my old desktop in the living room and it’s been phenomenal.
Fuck you windows and thanks for making the decision easy for me.
This is basically how I got started too, but worse lol. Mine was just w10 wouldn’t make it past the “pin” screen, just blackness, tried to let it load for 24hr and it never did, so instead of even trying recovery I just rescued my files with a live usb of fedora (mounted that drive and bypassed the pin no less, who knew) and once I was done just installed fedora. Never looked back, it physically pains me when I have to use windows at work.
Heeey, another Windows to Mint convert! I did the same thing a couple of months back and have been having a great time, hope it goes smoothly for you too!
I had the same happen to my Win 11 install. Best ad for Linux i‘ve ever gotten. I installed Bazzite OS on that machine a day later and over the next few days my other machines got Fedora.
Literally yesterday I had windows 10 shit out its own asshole and corrupt itself. Nothing I could do would recover the windows install. Wouldn’t even download a new replacement in the recovery menu.
Ripped the drive out and checked the files. All my personal stuff is there. Just windows that decided it had enough.
Took this opportunity to install Linux mint. Been using it on my old desktop in the living room and it’s been phenomenal.
Fuck you windows and thanks for making the decision easy for me.
This is basically how I got started too, but worse lol. Mine was just w10 wouldn’t make it past the “pin” screen, just blackness, tried to let it load for 24hr and it never did, so instead of even trying recovery I just rescued my files with a live usb of fedora (mounted that drive and bypassed the pin no less, who knew) and once I was done just installed fedora. Never looked back, it physically pains me when I have to use windows at work.
Heeey, another Windows to Mint convert! I did the same thing a couple of months back and have been having a great time, hope it goes smoothly for you too!
Currently dealing with getting DaVinci resolve running and getting more to grips with Linux as a daily driver.
Any issues that you have encountered?
I had the same happen to my Win 11 install. Best ad for Linux i‘ve ever gotten. I installed Bazzite OS on that machine a day later and over the next few days my other machines got Fedora.