I just want to write stories again and haven’t been able to at all since 2025 due to…2025 and all that has entailed. I no longer feel safe or secure using any of my current devices. I feel surveyed and watched 24/7. I’m absolutely not okay with things as they are currently. (.-.) For more context, I have pre-existing mental disorders and this year has just done me in.
I’m striving toward switching out at least one device with something that I can install linux on. I was thinking either a lenovo or a dell, and will start probably with linux mint, they say it’s a good beginner distro.
Not being able to write is killing me. I love writing so much even though it’s not anything special. It just felt good.
I’ve never used linux but want to learn and I will learn, because you have to if you want to use it. You can’t just hop in a car and hope it will work without knowing how to drive it. I will learn the commands. I’ll fail at it a couple times but learn. It’ll be great. Bring it.
I appreciate you taking time to reply.
Edit: You guys are amazing. My hope for the future is restored. Thank you!
Whatever you decide to do, make sure to keep backups. You don’t want to lose years of work because of a hard drive failure.
Oh yes, absolutely. Already covered. I have two beautiful sandisk external hard drives. I got two, because the first one did in fact stop working in 2023 when one day I accidentally knocked it over. The replacements have silicone armour on them…might be safer but I’m also handling them like crystal. Losing everything on the first hard drive was devastating.
I’m sure you’ll hear this elsewhere, but hard drives degrade over time no matter how nice you are to them. Make sure you rotate your backups and potentially keep some up in the cloud as a tertiary measure.
(Or also print them out to something that’ll last)
Yes, definitely. I’ve heard of disc rot. There’s some cloud alternatives mentioned here that I will check out.