• @[email protected]
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    12010 months ago

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

    Obligatory Linux plug.

    • Mr. Semi
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      1010 months ago

      Can’t get any linux to work on my gaming laptop

      • @[email protected]
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        2310 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.

        • Mr. Semi
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          1610 months ago

          How entirely unshocking that old, established hardware has support whereas brand new, non-mainstream hardware has issues

      • TheCookingSenpai
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        1310 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

          • @[email protected]
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            1110 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.
        • Mr. Semi
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          610 months ago

          My home computing experience extends back to manually setting IRQs and programs that came in the form of booklets of code in text. I’m not a stranger to getting fiddly with my software. This laptop just will not play nice with linux. It’s from maingear, and not even windows 11 recognizes all the hardware without some proprietary drivers, for example the keyboard backlighting.

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          Maingear ML-17.

          Uefi does not see any version of Linux as bootable after installation.

          I can get it to see grub, but it fails to boot when selected.

          • Nik282000
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            210 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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        310 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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        110 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

        • Mr. Semi
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          310 months ago

          100%. Spent an incredibly frustrating weekend before surrendering and going back to win10

          • chingadera
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            110 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      2310 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.