Very high brow indeed…

Yeah it was worth getting a bit of experience with that. If I decide to migrate my main workhorse over it’ll come in handy, as it has two drives, and I’ll need to manage partitions on that.

I’ll be trying out some distos over the next year and see what works for my setup. Running into things to solve seems part of the learning curve. So tough starts are kind of how you learn imho.

Oh, that’s good to know, I just reinstalled as one partition, seeing as it’s my spare laptop and I figured there aren’t going to be many personal files on there anyway.

Thanks for the in depth answer!

I was using the software manager indeed. For steam that seems like the only way to go as it says it needs 32 bit and hence needs root access. (Self reportedly).

I tried downloading the installer from stream itself, but that didn’t fare well.

I’m currently debating doing a re install and just make the one partition for everything, which is a shame ai was proud I managed the separate partitions all by myself. But if this can happen and my root can get filled up with files like this I don’t see how having a separate partition is worth it.

Thanks, I just went with suggestions. Think I’ll need to reinstall to make a better sized root, unfortunately, but that’s for tomorrow

I did manage to get seperate partitions, allocating 20 gb for the root. Now I’m installing software and it keeps saying the root is full… Does it not automatically install in /home? I can’t find a way to point installers to the home partition…

Thanks. Cant find the specific model in there, just the generic Pavilion 15.

There seems to be support for the AMD A6-5350M graphics card that’s in there…

Thanks, Mint seems the consensus here, so I’ll roll with that

Thanks. Most other posts are on which house distrom I know that’s a big choice, but this is some more practical info.

I think I’ll start out with Mint for now, as that’s the most suggested. And someone mentioned it looking like win 7, which actually appeals to me,