Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:02:00 -0700, T wrote:
 

On 6/25/25 5:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Another daily-diary article, this time trying out a few Linux distros
that might offer a less painful transition for Windows users
<https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/before-windows-10-goes-eol-im-

testing-three-alternative-linux-distros-to-save-my-6-year-old-laptop-from-
the-landfill>.

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A lot of the time, it seems to me, the hardest step for a Windows user
is copying a bootable Linux image (either live OS or installer) onto a
USB stick. What would be a quick, easy job on Linux itself requires a
fair bit of faffing about with third-party tools on Windows.

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https://fedoraproject.org/spins KDE, MATE, and Xfce are all great.
gnome is too weird to be usable.
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There are two easy ways to burn a flash drive with a Linux ISO from
Windows:
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Rufus Web Site:
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      https://rufus.ie/ https://rufus.akeo.ie/
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Fedora Media Write for Linux and Windows:
     https://fedoraproject.org/en/workstation/download
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Fedora is less complicated.   You will notice when running that it calls
some libraries from Rufus

 I don't remember the details but Fedora Media Write didn't work for me and
I wound up using rufus. I would not call it 'a fair bit of farfing
around'.