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Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops (www.ifixit.com)
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[–] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You're as prepared as anyone ever is. Getting good with a search engine is the best preparation.

Also, if that fails? Most distros have a forum where you can ask for help and actually get it.

Document interoperability? LibreOffice works well, and you can save in all the same formats as MS Office and more.

The learning curve is mostly what the new tools and programs are called. But so much stuff actually works better over there in Linux land - VLC, Krita, Blender, Audacity, much more.

Try things in a Virtual Machine! If you really can't give up some of your windows tools, you can try dual-booting, but Windows Update doesn't always play nice with another OS on the machine.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    Also, don't forget creating a bootable USB stick with the distros you think you'd like. Rufus or balena etcher should get you there, just figure out what distros you think you'd like to try out, as sometimes it can be easier to set those up than create a vm, plus you might be able to notice any obvious issues running natively.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I'm my family's "computer guy" despite not being overly tech savvy, and I always tell them it's just cause I can use google. Being good at something is literally just a matter of how quickly can you pick up on how something is done, and how well can you retain that for the future through whatever means work for you.

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