i remember getting my first one. it was an amazing time. played a lot of games back then. not so much now. i just can't keep up with the upgrades, so i just play older ones every now and then.
a modern equivalent would be moving from an old pc with hdd to a new one with nvme ssd.
hard drives are going to be slow af copying data to itself, or moving data to a different partition on it.
then you're also adding partition size manipulation to the mix, which will also be slow af when data has to be moved off the 'end' of partitions to 'make room' to enlarge or create another with a different fs.
your best option is to get another drive, even if it's also a hard drive instead of ssd. use that to move (copy, really, to preserve the original as a backup for the time being) all the data to that you want to preserve.
small town, middle of nowhere in the upper midwest. an hour away from basically anything other than walmart and a few fast food joints, and more than our fair share of climate change-denying maga morons.
we have multiple locations with chargers.
upgrades have been working fine here, both linux and windows, for well over a decade.
only if a system is also being repurposed at the time of the 'upgrade', or if i'm changing the connection type of the boot drive (such as from sata to nvme, or switching an older system to ahci mode) do i install 'from scratch'.
there's a lot of stupid, ignorant assholes running small businesses all over the place that think they own their employees and can boss them 24/7. this could totally be a legit posting somewhere.
if you want me answering my phone 24/7, you're paying me 24/7--and providing the phone you want me to answer.
definitely keep windows on it to begin with. once you're fully settled-in on linux and haven't even looked at windows for at least a couple weeks, make one last backup... then nuke it or repurpose it.
as real as artificial cheese.
the scammers are already using 'ai'
raise your hand if you ever thought training 'ai' on the whole of the internet was a good idea.
i remember talk as far back as the 1980s about high-speed rail between the cities and chicago.
still waiting.
i kinda expect google to go all 'new coke' here and unveil a 'classic' search experience as their experiment in 'new google' to be more like ~~pepsi~~ bing continues to fail spectacularly. they've already got the 'web' tab, it just has to be rebranded and made the default on a clean page with a link to 'google ii' which will quietly vanish from existence in a few years and nobody will notice.