Did you read where OP said they are throwing an install party?

RTFM, always good advice. Thanks

Thanks, saving these! It is NTFS, found it had been flagged as dirty and was in fact recommending chkdsk. Chkdsk didn’t find anything to fix, but its mountable again back in linux. I figured NTFS would be fine since I’m dual booting (separate drives) while I get used to Linux. Should I power off the Pi before removing next time?

No worries, appreciate the insight!

Appreciate the advice; I may just follow it considering how positive an experience Mint has been.

Thanks all for the helpful replies! I do have a second ssd, I can probably dump everything there before I format my m2 ssd. I do primarily game thru steam, I’ve got icue software that isn’t compatible but I believe I can use openrgb. Nvidia card also, is it just driver related?

I put Mint Cinnamon on an older laptop just this past weekend and had a lot of fun with it. Are there any migration tips for my main Windows machine? I was thinking of going with Bazzite since it’s my gaming box. What about saved game data and whatnot? I was reading about Putty and SSH ing over to the laptop, but I’m not sure what a good strategy is for my desktop.

Super cool, I’m very interested