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Microsoft is doing its best to make Year of the Linux Desktop a reality
Can't thank them enough, honestly. The only thing holding me back is my fear of messing it up when I try to dual boot. I think I'm just hoping I will figure out a good alternative to the exactly one type of software that I need so I don't have to deal with that. I mean really, it's literally just a PDF editor so I know there's an alternative. It just makes me anxious.
Edit: also, it wouldn't let me select the language of my comment. It said this community doesn't allow posts in English. Is that something I messed up or do some communities just not allow it to be specified?
Edit 2: finally finishing up the install now! A few minor hiccups but it was all user error.
Just back up any important files. I've had to do many reinstallations because of accidentally breaking things.
For pdf software, using wine is an option. It also has been a concern of mine with switching, but it seems the software I've been using (PDFxchange) works fine with wine.
Sweet. Thanks! Hopefully I won't have to do too many reinstallations lol
Got on my laptop today and Microsoft had installed (or reinstalled?) Copilot. I was going to wait til the weekend, but that really motivated me to just do it tonight. Of course Microsoft's backup is not working properly so I have to backup everything folder by folder. Which is annoying. But Microsoft sure knows how to get me to get things done! Thinking of sending them a thank you card.
Hey, I just finished my own search for a good Linux-compatible PDF editor. I wound up choosing Master PDF, which works on both Linux and Windows and has a demo available. It's about $100 for a license which I've very much found worth paying.
... I'm sure that there are also methods out there for getting it to work if you find yourself unable to pay the license cost.
As for dual booting, it's a bit of a learning curve but the software has gotten so much better over the years that I think you'd be easily able to do it. Find some YouTube videos if you feel anxious or if you have specific or unusual needs in your setup and just go for it!
Edit: but back up your files, just to be safe!
Sweet! I appreciate it. Going to try the demo and if I'm feeling confident enough with it I'm just gonna get rid of Windows all together.
Soon^tm^