• @DaddleDew
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    1173 months ago

    They figured if they make Win 10 just as bad as Win 11 people will finally switch over.

    Obligatory Linux plug.

    • @[email protected]
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      223 months ago

      I migrated the day before yesterday. A company can only feed you hot logs, straight from the factory, for so many years before you tire of pretending the taste is acceptable.

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      13 months ago

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      • @DaddleDew
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        213 months ago

        Your laptop must be an exception. I’ve installed Linux Mint on an old laptop that couldn’t even run Windows 10 properly and it just worked with zero hiccup.

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          • chingadera
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            13 months ago

            i chose the nuke it strategy, just burned it to the ground from frustration, then eventually made it to bazzite

      • TheCookingSenpai
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        93 months ago

        I assume this is either a meme or a very unique situation. “Not working” is too generic, if you can provide more details we could even help

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          • @[email protected]
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            113 months ago

            I’m not familiar with the brand, but general ideas that come to mind to troubleshoot are:

            • Disable secureboot if enabled. Understanding you’ll lose that security feature of course.
            • See if there’s an option to mark your storage as removable in the installer (–removable flag in grub iirc). My (pretty old) motherboard does not seem to respect attempts to add uefi entities but it happily boots off a “removable” uefi install.
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          • Nik282000
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            23 months ago

            I had a similar problem with an NUC where the install would work but was unbootable after. In my case the USB showed up as both a BIOS and UEFI boot device and the mobo was picking the legacy mode. This made the install a legacy boot install which was not bootable.

            To fix it I had to manually choose to boot the install USB’s UEFI mode.

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        Super weird. My laptop had a new enough GPU that Windows didn’t even have proper drivers yet and it worked out of the box on Linux.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 months ago

        When you say Any Linux, are you referring to debian derivatives only? Have you tried rpm based? I had same issue with one laptop. However Bazzite offers images based on hardware type so one of those might work

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          • @NegativeInf
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            13 months ago

            What’s the model number?

            And specifically windows recovery partitions enjoy nuking grub at every step.

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              • @NegativeInf
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                53 months ago

                Well, there’s your problem. Windows nukes it in a blind panic.

                As an alternative, windows in a vm for your work software, Linux as the only physical install.

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                  • @grue
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                    13 months ago

                    What happens if you boot it with only the Linux SSD attached?

    • @Fades
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      13 months ago

      Obligatory anti cheat means gaming on Linux isn’t straightforward