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Thanks for all the suggestions and info. One thing to consider is that I'm physically disabled, and fooling around with swapping drives and whatnot is not something I really want to mess around with at this stage. (and yes, I used to be a tech, haha)
You're not a fan of the stick idea, I take it? It seems like it would be a good, low-energy way for me to give Mint a test drive...
Oh, the stick is how I did it. It’s definitely great for the Test drive.
In my specific situation, I had A lot of files I wanted to move from the window system to the Linux system, and at that point in time, I did not have an external that had enough room to put them all on. I was also unsure if everything I needed would be compatible, so I wanted to save the windows SSD to be able to use as an external and boot from if needed. That did not end up being necessary, but I did plug it in as an external in order to recover some of those files that I wasn’t able to move to an existing external (mostly my ROM library and all my saves tbh, lmao)