Oh, that was absolutely not my problem. The “crashing whenever it was put to sleep” part was my problem. The distro I tried was pretty good about wiping and repartitioning the drive I gave it without messing with anything else, actually. Gotta give it to Linux devs, at least at this point they fully acknowledge that “just checking this out to see if I like it” is a major use case.
Disk partioning has been around since the 60s, it’s not really a new feature to be able to install a distro without wiping the whole drive and has nothing to do with Linux.
I’m… not impressed with the concept of disk partitioning, what a weird way to read that.
I’m impressed with the interface smartly picking up on what you’re trying to do, shrinking and growing partitions and setting up things automatically to specifically support a non-destructive install to coexist with other OSs because the idea that you’d be just testing a distro alongside Windows or something else is a specifically supported use case.
You still have Windows? Well there’s your problem, you’re supposed to format the entire drive when installing Linux…
Oh, that was absolutely not my problem. The “crashing whenever it was put to sleep” part was my problem. The distro I tried was pretty good about wiping and repartitioning the drive I gave it without messing with anything else, actually. Gotta give it to Linux devs, at least at this point they fully acknowledge that “just checking this out to see if I like it” is a major use case.
Disk partioning has been around since the 60s, it’s not really a new feature to be able to install a distro without wiping the whole drive and has nothing to do with Linux.
I’m… not impressed with the concept of disk partitioning, what a weird way to read that.
I’m impressed with the interface smartly picking up on what you’re trying to do, shrinking and growing partitions and setting up things automatically to specifically support a non-destructive install to coexist with other OSs because the idea that you’d be just testing a distro alongside Windows or something else is a specifically supported use case.