Slimer wrote:
1. Run Linux LiveCD, enjoy what I'm using.
2. Attempt to install Linux. For whatever reason, it doesn't see my RAID
and forces me to use my two SSDs as separate drives rather than just one.
3. Install Linux anyway and am pleased to discover that all of the
hardware works. Don't mind that startup goes from taking 8 seconds to
about 60.
4. Run Steam, it asks to update.
5. Update the whole computer.
6. Steam suddenly doesn't load at all.
7. Try to restore the Macrium Reflect image of my previous Windows 10
install: it fails (apparently because the RAID I re-created is different
even though the settings are identical. However, it claims that the
image is corrupted).
8. Try to restore my computer's image of Windows 8.1 OS install, created
when I purchased the machine. It fails as well.
9. Out of desperate, try to restore an image of the whole computer and
risk losing all of my data. Luckily, it works without deleting the data
I was careful to put on a separate drive.
10. Partitions are suddenly out of whack even though the RAID was for
two M.2 SSD drives totaling 240GB. Everything works but EaseUS is used
to correct the partitions and bring everything back to normal.

Windows 10? No wonder you had problems. Try installing Linux with
Windows 10 nowhere near the machine. And when you do, install Linux Mint
Mate and then get back to us with your stereotypes, biases and ignorance.

BTW, Windows 10 is more of a store than an operating system. Be prepared
to pay rent soon.

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John Q. Public