Question: Is It Safe to Install Linux?
Contents Originally Answered: Is Installing Linux Dangerous? in General, No. There Is a Possibility That, If Done Wrong, You Could Lose Any Existing Data on...
Originally Answered: Is installing Linux dangerous? In general, no. There is a possibility that, if done wrong, you could lose any existing data on your hard drive (assuming you want to dual boot with another operating systems). As for being a danger to your computer hardware, no Linux is not dangerous to install.
Is installing Linux safe?
Theoretically it’s not safe. The installer will organise place for the new OS and this will mean moving files on Windows partitions in order to resize them. … Always there is a risk, however most of the Linux distributions (including Linux Mint) minimize that risk by a more user-friendly installation process.
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Is installing Linux worth it?
Linux can actually be very easy to use, as much so or even more so than Windows. It is much less expensive. So if a person is willing to go to the effort of learning something new then I would say that it is absolutely worth while. I’m typing this on an old Dell 14z 5423 with Ubuntu 16.04 Linux installed.
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