https://linuxmint.com/ is one of the easiest and straightforward ones to get into, comes with everything you need stock pretty much, pick the "XFCE" edition if you have a very old PC, otherwise the "Cinnamon" edition is best imo, most "Windows like" experience
Also I might suggest actually dumping the garbage OS from an obvious evil company, that was founded by Bill fucking Gates and just use Linux exclusively already... Can't really understand how so many awakened people haven't done that already at this point
Feel free to ask any questions about Linux you might have.
I got downloaded and completed Integrity/Authenticity check, but I guess I'm going to have to buy another thumb drive cause the two I have can't even format them.
If I have an empty 250gb USB drive, can I burn the image to that to make it a bootable device? And then I guess if I had to boot from it I could change boot options to make sure it look at that drive.
Only thing I don't know is if before Windows disk manager loads if it even knows that drive is out there.
Try using ventoy, It's a fantastic piece of software
You can install it to anything, thumbdrives, external hard drives, internal hard drives, SSDs, HDDs, it don't mater
Just download the windows package, and launch the "Ventoy2Disk.exe", your 250GB drive, if plugged in, should show in the list, here's a quick guide from the website
After you install it you'll see 2 different devices for that same drive (it creates 2 partitions) one should be named "VTOYEFI" which is the actual application, you don't have to mess with it, the other should be named just "Ventoy"
This Ventoy device is basically just empty space you can use for whatever, and there should be a folder named "Isos" in there, if there isn't just create one, I honestly can't remember if it creates it automatically or not
Then just drop the isos for whatever you want to boot from in that folder, no need to burn them to the drive
That should make it bootable
you don't necessarily need to change boot options, the great majority of motherboards will have a "Boot menu" option at boot, these options show for a short time whenever you boot your pc right at the beginning, using this boot menu option you'll get a list of all the bootable devices from which you can choose, without changing the boot order.
Though if you have "fast/ultrafast boot" or the like enabled in your BIOS/EFI setup you'll need to change that
Where to go for such a Linux option?
https://linuxmint.com/ is one of the easiest and straightforward ones to get into, comes with everything you need stock pretty much, pick the "XFCE" edition if you have a very old PC, otherwise the "Cinnamon" edition is best imo, most "Windows like" experience
https://mxlinux.org/ is also good
Pretty much 99% of all distributions are live systems you can use, just burn the ISO to a pen drive or DVD and you're golden
This is a good tool to use for burning them to a pen drive https://etcher.balena.io/
But a better, and slightly more technical solution, is this https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
Also I might suggest actually dumping the garbage OS from an obvious evil company, that was founded by Bill fucking Gates and just use Linux exclusively already... Can't really understand how so many awakened people haven't done that already at this point
Feel free to ask any questions about Linux you might have.
I got downloaded and completed Integrity/Authenticity check, but I guess I'm going to have to buy another thumb drive cause the two I have can't even format them.
If I have an empty 250gb USB drive, can I burn the image to that to make it a bootable device? And then I guess if I had to boot from it I could change boot options to make sure it look at that drive.
Only thing I don't know is if before Windows disk manager loads if it even knows that drive is out there.
Try using ventoy, It's a fantastic piece of software
You can install it to anything, thumbdrives, external hard drives, internal hard drives, SSDs, HDDs, it don't mater
Just download the windows package, and launch the "Ventoy2Disk.exe", your 250GB drive, if plugged in, should show in the list, here's a quick guide from the website
After you install it you'll see 2 different devices for that same drive (it creates 2 partitions) one should be named "VTOYEFI" which is the actual application, you don't have to mess with it, the other should be named just "Ventoy"
This Ventoy device is basically just empty space you can use for whatever, and there should be a folder named "Isos" in there, if there isn't just create one, I honestly can't remember if it creates it automatically or not
Then just drop the isos for whatever you want to boot from in that folder, no need to burn them to the drive
That should make it bootable
you don't necessarily need to change boot options, the great majority of motherboards will have a "Boot menu" option at boot, these options show for a short time whenever you boot your pc right at the beginning, using this boot menu option you'll get a list of all the bootable devices from which you can choose, without changing the boot order.
Though if you have "fast/ultrafast boot" or the like enabled in your BIOS/EFI setup you'll need to change that