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I guess, you don’t see this comment: https://lemmy.ca/comment/13390925

Tiny bit of context: LilyPond is basically LaTeX for sheet music.

Really good for transcribing and if you enjoy working with text.
But it does have somewhat of a learning curve, which might not be worth it for occasional use…

Yeah, I started on Mint, too, back in 2015. I do think, it’s a good place to start, when you don’t yet know what the different choices.
I especially appreciated that its keyboard shortcuts are very similar to Windows out of the box, so that’s at least some amount of muscle memory you can retain while you’re learning lots of other new things.

I would’ve wished for a rough step list when I migrated, so here you go:

• Download an ISO for a distribution of your choice.
• Flash this ISO to a USB stick. You’ll find tutorials, if you search for “Live USB”.
• Turn off your laptop and get into the BIOS or boot menu. Typically, you will need to press the power button and then repeatedly press one of these keys: Esc, F1, F2, F10, F12
  In there, you should be able to select the USB drive to boot from it, or you might need to set it as the first item in the boot priority list. If it doesn’t boot, you might need to enable USB Boot or disable Secure Boot.
• When it does boot off the USB stick, you should be presented with the Linux desktop. You can take a look around before committing to the installation. (This live mode is also great, if you ever need to recover something from a hard drive in a laptop which’s OS is broken.)
• Start the installation and go through the wizard. Typically, there’s a shortcut on the desktop to start it.