I had a dual boot machine for a year or so when i first used linux. Never actually went into windows the whole time

Back in the very early 2000s my dad went back to college. There he learne c++ but he also leatned that a great programer makes the program work ans keeps it small. Even bavk his teacher was complianing about newer programs taking up more and more ram.

I didn’t want to have spyware for an os.

As someone insecure in their masculinity I don’t know if u would use ladybird. Now if it was MANbird I would.

So tldr start with a dual boot machine

Umm correct if um wrong but cant you make a snapshot of ant file system