mangotek | Liberating My Microsoft Laptop with Linux Mint
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I finally got around to giving my old Surface Laptop 2 a second life with Linux. I went with Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition, and I’m really glad I did.

  • eutampieri@feddit.it
    11·
    4 months ago

    Cool! Next time, use Balena Etcher instead of Rufus

    Edit: I remember for sure that there was a wiki page that said not to use these tools because they modify the image (I think Rufus extracts the image to a FAT FS?).

    However, the Ubuntu wiki now reads:

    Rufus

    Rufus is the tool in Windows that is recommended officially by Ubuntu. A tutorial is available from here.

    • HouseWolf@pawb.social
      1·
      4 months ago

      Belena Etcher has some issues with “telemetry” that’s turned on by default. Which is why I don’t recommend it.

      I used Rufus quite a bit back on Windows and never had issues burning Windows or Linux ISOs to flash drives with it.