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Originally Posted by The Old Man
To be honest, Linux scares me. I went to the Mint site and and thought about drivers for my printer, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. I have an old Windows 10 desktop so I suppose I could try it on that 
I see there is no Calibre app for Android  |
Chrome OS is Linux, and so is Android OS. Nothing scary there, eh? Drivers are easier with Mint than with Windows in my experiences. The difficulty comes with trying to dual boot-- that is to have both Windows and Mint on the same hard drive. Microsoft has made this very difficult. Easiest thing is get a new solid state drive for your desktop and install Mint on it. Set the hard drive with Windows on it aside. You can always get an enclosure for it to use it as an external drive for extra storage and backups. If the Mint is not to your liking, just put the windows drive back in the desktop and use the new drive as extra storage backup and get the Chromebook. Choices are always good.
I gave up on Windows with the Vista release and started with Ubuntu then moved to Mint. The learning curve for Mint these days is very gentle. If you were comfortable with Windows 7, Mint will be very easy. There is no harm in making a USB flash with the Mint on it to give it a test spin before installing.
At any rate, this is a good program for Windows to create the bootable flash,
https://rufus.ie/en/ and this is the Mint ISO to use,
https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php get the cinnamon desktop.