I like Mint mire but what has drawn me to PCLOS is that it is the only Linux I have tried in that the backlight on my keyboard works. I think both PCLOS and Mint are two versions of that I like best. Having come from Windows originally I am most comfortable with a “Windows like” environment. They are all good distros and there are many articles on why one or the other is good or better for you but for me, it came down to PCLinuxOS or Mint. I tried them all ‘live’ from USB drives and a couple of them using VirtualBox. ![]() So, for me it came down to PCLOS, Mint, SUSE or Ubuntu to install to my laptop. The good thing now is that I have paid it off so it’s all mine to do whatever I want with. And the idea of messing with a bone stock laptop using Linux sounded fun. I didn’t want to change the machine any while I owed money on it. A financed $550 laptop takes a little while to pay off. I know some of you are wondering why go through all of this when I could just install a Linux distro along side of windows and be done with it? One reason was I had to pay it off. That was actually my intention, but I wound up going a different way. So one option would have been to put a bigger drive in and then go the normal route. Since the laptop came with a 512 GB NVMe drive, I wanted to upgrade the drive anyway. Sure, you can always repartition the drive, but the laptop has a relatively small drive and is set up very specifically to work with the BIOS diagnostics and recovery so it is always a pain to redo the drive without upsetting the factory tools. ![]() If you ever wanted a proper dual-booting laptop, you’ll be interested in how this setup works. I recently bought a new Dell Inspiron and the process of dual booting it turned out to be unusually effective but did bring up a few challenges. I still usually dual boot them, but I often leave Windows on them for one reason or another. In particular, I have had several laptops that are finicky with Linux. ![]() But for many reasons, it is occasionally necessary. I must confess, that I try not to run Windows any more than absolutely necessary.
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