Hey everyone! I'm totally fed up with Windows and am finally making the jump to Linux. I'm fairly tech-savvy since I'm an IT student, but I still have a lot to learn. I've messed around with Arch in the past, but I couldn't keep it up. Now I want to install Linux Mint on my laptop and desktop, but I have a ton of games—I'd rather not have to re-download them all because my internet is super slow. So here's my dilemma: I want to wipe Windows and install Linux, but I want to keep all my files, especially my games. Is there any way to do this without having to back everything up, or should I just get an external hard drive? My desktop is already stuffed with nearly 2TB of data, and getting a new drive seems a bit tricky right now. Any advice would be super helpful, even if it's just "No way to do that, backup what you can." Thanks!
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Unfortunately, without backing up your files first, you're running a risk. Windows and Linux use different file systems, so there's no guaranteed way to transfer all your files without losing some data. It's a good time to start thinking about backing up your important stuff anyway, just in case.
But can't Linux read and write to NTFS? Isn’t there a chance it could work?