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- bloomer@hexbear.net
- Rufus to write it onto a 4 GB or more flash drive.
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I actually have a question there, I put mint on an old laptop to try it out before putting it on my main PC, but when I rebooted it, I found that Linux Mint was gone, leaving only the bootloader. I feel that it might be a pebkac issue, but I’m not certain, and I wanna be sure I’m not gonna have the same problem when I go to install it on my main rig.
A corrupted install is concerning. Did you manually partition your drives or did you let mint don’t the partitioning for you and is this a dual boot setup (since windows likes to take control of your boot drive)?
If the laptop has secure boot you want to also turn that off as well if you haven’t already.
I think I had a previous dual-boot install with Ubuntu, not sure about secure boot, how would I find out and turn it off?
You would have to go into your computer’s bios/uefi settings which is different for every OEM and so you’ll have to look it up. Most likely something went wrong during installation and you can try again.
Alrighty, I’ll give it another shot testing on my old laptop this weekend (it’s an old Toshiba satellite with the built-in speakers shot).
Where is the AI integration
In where they put all the ads
Don’t be afraid to try out Fedora either, the Atomics are cool (it’s what Bazzite and SteamOS are based on).
There’s a ton of really cool distros that all have their neat niches. Once you get out of the locked down ecosystem of windows/macos you get solutions to tons of problems you might not even have known existed.
Linux is the back itching operating system, there’s a spot it can reach for anyone.
And if it can’t reach, someone will make it reach next year while Microsoft and Apple continue to neglect you.
I hate that I have to use Windows for work (proprietary design software), but I still do most of my development in Linux, and constantly have a WSL terminal open in any working directory so I can have sane filesystem interactions with bash and coreutils.
