If I were in that situation, one thing I’d consider trying… get 2 USB pendrives, one to put a Live/Installer distro on (Devuan, or AntiX being the two friendliest of my likely candidate distros (or VoidLinux, Artix or Gentoo if feeling a little more bold)), and a bigger one to install the distro to, just like it’s a HD or SSD, to see if “everything works”. Then can decide from there if wanting to just carry on from there living like that, or, move to the main SSD.
M$ Windoze gets slower by the day, by design. Just one of many anti-features abusing the user used. Planned obsolescence, actively engaged, to encourage you that you need to buy the new version, and new hardware. Stick a GNU+Linux or a BSD on it, and then surprisingly the hardware’s nippy again, for over a decade more, sparing your kindeys.
Ooh, I’ve never seen installing on a pendrive being suggested before, I think. I certainly do have a couple pendrives. I’ll give that a shot, since I also have a gaming wheel I’d like to test.
When I first set up my current gaming PC, I had Kubuntu running from a 1Gb external SSD, just to check all the hardware was good before wiping the main internal SSD.
Used it that way for weeks before figuring that I needed to get around to setting it up on the internal drive. At no point did it feel like a problem. Games were running from a 2Tb HDD, and were playing just fine.
Also had it installed on a 64Gb thumb drive, so I could boot some of the Windows machines at work into Kubuntu for hardware testing.
It really is extraordinary how flexible Linux can be.
If I were in that situation, one thing I’d consider trying… get 2 USB pendrives, one to put a Live/Installer distro on (Devuan, or AntiX being the two friendliest of my likely candidate distros (or VoidLinux, Artix or Gentoo if feeling a little more bold)), and a bigger one to install the distro to, just like it’s a HD or SSD, to see if “everything works”. Then can decide from there if wanting to just carry on from there living like that, or, move to the main SSD.
M$ Windoze gets slower by the day, by design. Just one of many anti-features abusing the
userused. Planned obsolescence, actively engaged, to encourage you that you need to buy the new version, and new hardware. Stick a GNU+Linux or a BSD on it, and then surprisingly the hardware’s nippy again, for over a decade more, sparing your kindeys.Ooh, I’ve never seen installing on a pendrive being suggested before, I think. I certainly do have a couple pendrives. I’ll give that a shot, since I also have a gaming wheel I’d like to test.
When I first set up my current gaming PC, I had Kubuntu running from a 1Gb external SSD, just to check all the hardware was good before wiping the main internal SSD.
Used it that way for weeks before figuring that I needed to get around to setting it up on the internal drive. At no point did it feel like a problem. Games were running from a 2Tb HDD, and were playing just fine.
Also had it installed on a 64Gb thumb drive, so I could boot some of the Windows machines at work into Kubuntu for hardware testing.
It really is extraordinary how flexible Linux can be.