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Posted by Zachary Kaufman
Zachary Kaufman
1,463 Points

Linux on External Drive

Hello, so I have a very nice new laptop. It's new because I broke my last one trying to download Linux. So now that I have my new one I want to try Linux again but I'm looking for safer options. I have a VM running Linux but VM performance isn't very good and I don't want to have to open the VM every time I want to take my programming classes on here, but the scripts I make aren't working on Windows. So I just had the idea of buying an external drive and making my computer search for external OS's first, and getting Ubuntu on the external drive. Is this safe and will it work? Thanks in advance!

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Shane Robinson
Shane Robinson
7,324 Points
Shane Robinson
Shane Robinson
7,324 Points

I imagine getting Linux on an external drive is the same process as putting it on a flash drive. There are oodles of guides out there on how to do that.

If you are just wanting to be able to run scripts then you can download Git and run scripts from the prompt Git provides. It is a much simpler solution if you are just looking to run scripts that you can't run on Windows. There is probably a guide out there with more information on this if you are interested.