First I have two extra hardrives that I mainly use for storage, my main question is can I just unplug them. Install Mint on the drive that currently holding Windows 10. Then replug the two drives and keep all the data store on them?

Or will I need to transfer all that data to an external hard-drive? Guess really want to know how to keep all my data store on those drives. . I heve thousands of songs, some movies and shows. Not to mention thousands of documents and other stuff.

Just want to know best way to keep all that?

Also it has a Nvidia game card. Will Mint recognize that? Will I still be able to play my Steam games on Mint?

Also I like to continue getting the free games on Epic, how do I go about playing them?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

  • Blaster MEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    1: Yes, you can Replace Windows 10 with Linux Mint. This will format the drive Windows is on. 2: Optionally, yes. This guarantees you don’t oops the drives if you start trying to minmax install drive options instead of choosing the “Erase Windows and Install Mint” option. Plug them back in after install and you should be able to open them right up.

    3: There’s a couple launchers that can hekp you get all your game launchers going. Heroic Launcher, Lutris, Bottles. Search around, I personally haven’t tried this.

    4: If you have Steam, install it via the deb file or “sudo apt install steam” in Terminal. The flatpak version is good, but lacks some functionality due to sandboxing.

    • FredselfishOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      Thank you that gives me some peace of mind. I have Linux Mint installed on a old laptop and install Steam just see how it would work. So far okay. Unfortunately can’t use this laptop to play any of the games I usually play. But believe they will work once I upgrade my gaming computer to Linux.

      I been using Linux on my laptop and so far not bad. Going be a change not having access to Windows and many programs I have and use unfortunately won’t wotk on Linux so will need to get use to just not having access. At least until I find similar products.

      I heard people mention Proton for Epic but I will look at these other choices as well. Thank you again for the information.

      • Blaster MEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Enabling Experimental Proton support in Steam Linux lets you try to run any Windows game via Proton instead of just the ones guaranteed compatible.