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Firefox is ending support for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1, and users are urged to switch to Linux (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Most distro’s have a live bootable install. You download a .iso and burn it to a flash drive. Plug it in and boot from it, doesn’t touch or change anything with your current Windows install.

This lets you try out the OS before fully installing it. Give it a whirl.

I personally recommend Fedora KDE. https://fedoraproject.org/kde/

[–] epicshepich@programming.dev 4 points 2 hours ago

Instead of burning the ISO to the flash drive, I recommend burning Ventoy to your flashdrive. Then you can drag and drop ISOs for every distro you want to try without having to burn them every time.