I’m finally back, apparently linux mint comes with ntfs handling out of the box, just opened the file explorer (nemo), and opened a picture successfully.

Only step left is disabling booting through windows.

Something kinda funny, installing clang is extremely simple, and gcc was preinstalled, so i already got a C development environment on vs code :)

Maybe I’ll try getting a different code editor, to simplify things even more, it’ll take a while though, for now vs code should be fine

It’s not for professional reasons, it’s all personal, plus studies, I’m not switching wholesale because i might need to access the old files (extremely unlikely, but I don’t want to make decisions based on that), and the laptop has enough stirage for me to be happy with the partition i made, which is ~200GB

Look i appreciate the help but you didn’t read the rest of the thread, i have a reason to keep it, it non negotiable.

I’ll try disabling the windows boot like someone said, and read the partition from linux, is enough to avoid the possibility.

I will check if mint does tomorrow, would be very nice if it does :)

Swimmingly :)

The laptop is way faster and apparently installing clang is super simple, so developing on linux is expected to go smooth.

I’m going to go with what one of the commenters said and disable the windows booting option and install an NTFS reading program to reach the files in that partition.

I’m very glad i did this, it was planned for months and now I’m very excited :D

If i understand correctly, i could leave the windows install as is, but disable it from appearing during boot, and install a program to read the files from the windows partition?

If so that’s actually a perfect solution :)

Following the guide as i write this :)

Hybrid sleep was luckily already disabled, and the laptop has 8GB ram so it should be fine.

Windows is the old OS i have a reason to keep, otherwise it would be all linux.

I’m going to use it for software development as im studying software engineering in uni, so probably not much else, and windows is the old OS of said device, so i just need to limit the windows partition and make a new linux one

Thanks, a few questions, what is a swap partition, and why is it needed?

Also i have a ton of free storage so the linux install will probably have over 200gb in its partition

Kinda need the old OS, it’s a close friend’s computer and it took too long to get just a few files out of it, i want to keep the rest just in case we missed something.

(Also I don’t want to just backup the whole ass hard drive)

nah i don’t care for giving tours to bad faith actor, especially to something that is a click away.

If you’re not arguing in bad faith i suggest instead catching up on reading comprehension, because your reply doesn’t logically follows from mine unless you’re trying your very best to misinterpret me.

Helps document this, does little to fight it.

Oh excuse me, i merely thought from your other comment that you actually cared about user participation, as opposed to passive content consumption, silly me.

As if finding the log takes more than a few seconds, took me like half a minute looking for it for the first time when i wanted to check a users deleted comment history.

As a user from @programming.dev you should know the importance of documentation, and the log being easy to read should help the users to fight it themselves. As in by making their own communities/instances as needed

Does it also cover reloading with different ads? (such that it would count impressions for different advertisers)

Barely any of the functions actually moved, I’d rather the control panel stay just in case regardless, because i still find old fixes to problems i have on old forums and such.

Which is also why my system language is set to english, so everything on the control panel will have a searchable name instead of a half assed translation that I’ll have to translate back.