Questions about Linux Mint and this list

[Tom Mitchell]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 8:41 AM Bret Busby <bret at busby.net> wrote:
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> Hello.
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> The first question, is,
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> The second question
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> My wife, who is a MS .net systems developer, wants a new computer, with
> MS Windows 11 Pro installed on it, so she can play with her development
> tools, other than on her work computer, and, also wants to try Linux

Note that Microsoft 10 and 11 have a hosted Ubuntu environment.
That enables a lot of exploration of command line tools.
Mint and Ubuntu both install nicely on older hardware.
An astoundingly long list of Windows 10 machines are not Windows 11 qualified.
I expect to see a flood of refurbished very useful laptops when
companies start upgrading.

So inspect the hosted environment because from a command line
perspective it just works.
Installs and uninstalls with ease.

I would not dual/multi boot a work computer although I have done it
multiple times.
I had one with FreeBSD, Fedora, Centos, Ubuntu...  to check builds for
 hardware drivers.