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My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore (www.howtogeek.com)

submitted 4 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If you've got an external USB drive bigger than the laptop's, and are willing to take the time, you could back it up by making a disk image with Clonezilla so you're sure you have a backout option if you run into too much trouble getting Linux working

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I tried a live USB image of Ubuntu and couldn't get the touchscreen to work. I didn't try out everything, but that was the first major issue.