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Could libraries be able to get grants to pay someone (like me, lol) to help people leave Windows for Linux? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 months ago by Dymonika@beehaw.org to c/libraries@literature.cafe

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Could this be a thing? I'd love to get paid to help people leave Windows and move to Linux Mint, but I'm not sure of where a funding source could come from. I wonder if anyone would know if libraries could possibly be open to such a program.

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[–] ReptilianCleric@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What format is your HDD? If you recently switched from windows, it's possible the HDD is using the NTFS filesystem, which is not well supported so many distros will not auto mount NTFS partitions to avoid file corruption. Good news, though, better NTFS support is coming with kernel version 7. Anyway, for starters you want to check if /dev/hda exists; if it doesn't, that's a whole other problem...

Edit: I hesitate to recommend this distro to someone new to Linux, but it occurred to me CachyOS has a decent chance of solving every one of the issues you mentioned. It's gaming focused, has the latest kernel already, good hardware support, and includes an environment for running windows apps. Unfortunately, troubleshooting or installing new apps will likely involve a much steeper learning curve. But again, it might have ready to go support for everything you need, so...