Unless you fucked the bootloader

Since dipshits are down voting me for being right, I’ll just leave this here

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/13674/is-it-possible-to-recover-data-on-a-zeroed-hard-drive

This is a miss understanding. Deleting it doesn’t actually delete the data, just the meta data. Overwrite it and it’s gone forever

Completely unnecessary. Overwriting the whole drive with zeros completely stops anyone from being able to recover anything

I second mint, back when I had more time to fuck with such things I distro hopped like crazy, mint is easy and it just works