No, i want an easy way to navigate between unopened pdf files within the same directory

Will remember this as this might be close enough in case other solutions won’t do

Looks perfect to my use case, will try it out, thanks :)

Replied to schnurrito with the answer. In short, i want to view files in a directory as one would view photos in a gallery, as I can’t always tell beforehand which file is relevant to me and I’d like to be able to move quickly between files, instead of opening many files and then closing the irrelevant ones.

That’s pretty close to what I’d be looking for, yes, a problem I’m having with common pdf viewers is that I’d need to open the files I’d want to read from beforehand, instead of just passing to the next file like i would in a gallery.

This requires that I’d know which files are relevant to me before reading said files.

That said, my use case does sound unique so I’m not surprised it’s hard to figure out what im looking for :)

It’s absolutely insulting and infuriating and i want to grab them and slap them more than a couple tomes.

I’m first year into university, studying software engineering, and sometimes i like doing homework with friends, because calculus and linear algebra are hard on my brain and i specifically went to uni to understand the hard parts.

Not once, not twice, have i asked for help with something from a friend, only for them to just open the dumbass chatbot, asking it how to solve the question, and just believing in the answer like it’s the moses coming down with the commandments, and then giving me the same explanation, full of orgasmic enthusiasm until i go “applying that theorem in the second step is invalid” or “this contradicts an earlier conclusion”, and then they shut their fucking brains off, tell monsieur shitbot his mistake, and again, explain to me like I’m a child (I’d say mansplaining because honest to god it looked and sounded the same but I’m also a man, so… ) word for word the bot output.

This doesn’t stop at 3 or 4 times, i could only wish, sometime i got curious and burnt an hour like that with the same guy, on the same question, on the same prompt streak.

Like after the 7th time they don’t understand that they are in more trouble than me and still talk like they have a phd.

So I’ll sum up:

• they turn off their brain
• they make bot think for them
• they believe bot like gospel
• they swear bot knows best
• they’re shown it does not know shit
• “just one more prompt bro i swear bro please one more time bro i swear bro Claude knows how to solve calculus bro it has LaTeX bro so it probably knows bro please bro one more prompt bro-”

I don’t want to keep windows because i like it, i need to keep it because I won’t have enough time to migrate all at once, knowing how complicated windows is.

I’m basically going to migrate little by little, as much as i need every session, i also don’t know how to use linux much so i expect to learn with time.

Huh, and i just installed it on my secondary computer (laptop). Maybe i should setup a dual boot on my main one soon and disable network communications in the windows partition, and then migrate ny files slowly until i can confidently get rid of that partition.

Saved for late :^)

Had a linux moment yesterday, piped “clang --help” into grep to find something, it wasn’t there but the piping itself was awesome.

Don’t have anybody else to tell lol

I’m finally back, apparently linux mint comes with ntfs handling out of the box, just opened the file explorer (nemo), and opened a picture successfully.

Only step left is disabling booting through windows.

It’s about the files, not the OS

Something kinda funny, installing clang is extremely simple, and gcc was preinstalled, so i already got a C development environment on vs code :)

Maybe I’ll try getting a different code editor, to simplify things even more, it’ll take a while though, for now vs code should be fine

I’d really like to not open up the device and mess with it, kinda need it for use soon, so i cant afford the time.

Also, i agree, but just disabling the ability to boot through windows should be enough for now, by the time I’d need more control, i can safely say the old files aren’t needed, and can ditch the windows partition.

It’s not for professional reasons, it’s all personal, plus studies, I’m not switching wholesale because i might need to access the old files (extremely unlikely, but I don’t want to make decisions based on that), and the laptop has enough stirage for me to be happy with the partition i made, which is ~200GB

Look i appreciate the help but you didn’t read the rest of the thread, i have a reason to keep it, it non negotiable.

I’ll try disabling the windows boot like someone said, and read the partition from linux, is enough to avoid the possibility.

I will check if mint does tomorrow, would be very nice if it does :)

Swimmingly :)

The laptop is way faster and apparently installing clang is super simple, so developing on linux is expected to go smooth.

I’m going to go with what one of the commenters said and disable the windows booting option and install an NTFS reading program to reach the files in that partition.

I’m very glad i did this, it was planned for months and now I’m very excited :D

If i understand correctly, i could leave the windows install as is, but disable it from appearing during boot, and install a program to read the files from the windows partition?

If so that’s actually a perfect solution :)