Their mini pcs seem like something I’d like to revisit. Pretty rebuildable and, seemingly, a common enterprise choice. Parts will always be around for something like that

It was a Lenovo minipc with an Amazon customized bios that wouldn’t offer boot options. I found some guides to get around it, but they were well beyond my capacity, so it’s been returned. Ended up getting an older used hp elitebook off of eBay. Cracked plastic on the corners knocked it down to less than $100 with some careful sniping, but it’s plenty for me to fiddle with. No complaints so far.

So do you have to declare a pogrom or are you just allowed to continue one until you declare yourself to be orchestrating just a touch of genocide? We really need to remove these loopholes. Make sure it’s a sanctioned mass killing, none of this spontaneous Rwanda shit.

These are the sorts of conversations I’ve been hearing lately. I think humanity is doomed.

Didn’t see this, I went with mate to start for precisely for that reason. It’s a low spec machine, so I first tried out xfce and mate. I just didn’t love the icons, menu, and general theme on xfce, and the performance hit was utterly negligible, so I went with mate. Still no regrets, though I’m having trouble figuring out some connectivity issues.

I went with mint’s look to start, then I’ll transition to something more conducive to my actual workflow as I relearn commands. Frankly, I’m just happy that I can find all of my relevant settings in one place again. As god intended.

Sounds like you didn’t go into that conversation with purpose. Sounds like you never wanted to speak to them and did so out of an odd feeling of obligation. Pretty difficult to have a good conversation from those beginnings. Reflect on what went wrong and why, and embrace what you learned.

You got me pretty excited for a minute, but unfortunately this model doesn’t have one. I really appreciate the help, though. I have only a few more keys to try, before I loop back to the beginning with a fresher arm

Frankly, I wouldn’t even know where to begin to return it. I guess I’ll shoot them an email with the model and pics and send it back to them if they request it. As with the drive’s contents, I expect nothing

I wish it were so short. It’s about a minute per boot, and I have never mashed this hard or long in my life. Still worth

I appreciate that. This is definitely going to be a long learning process for me, but the boundless optimism here, and my malignant hatred for windows, will hopefully keep me going

That’s a significantly more interesting story than my start (and long stall). “What’s a tracking cookie?” I asked webcrawler. And then my personality became open source freeware for 6 years.

But if you think that there might be anything of interest, I’ll definitely check it out. Others mentioned that it’s likely a distro of red hat so I’ll see if I can somehow dump or sync it to a flash drive. Unfortunately, I don’t have any spare ssds to swap, and while I’d love to sync the OS to a drive, my priority is definitely to get the flip off of windows already.

Replying to track what I’ve tried so far. It’s a loooong boot

F1, f12, left shift

You might be right, but in my defense, I am very dumb.

Thank you for the confirmation! I’m excited to post the “I did it!” at some point this week.

I can try it. If it happens to be interesting, which I personally doubt, would there be any interest in my dumping it onto mediafire or some such? I can parse the difference between windows, MacOS, Linux, but delving into something even slightly more opaque is beyond me.

It’s a thing as far as I can tell. Or it’s a strong overlay on top of windows. I currently can’t tell, given that I’m fighting with a second login screen on top of the usual pc setup.

I haven’t tried that yet, that was going to be the first thing i wanted to try tomorrow. The front port ate my last good usb, so I intended to buy another tomorrow. I appreciate you affirming that that was the correct route, as I’m fairly new to all of this

Not gonna lie, if someone said that about me, I’d probably start crying. This guy lives in a reality so utterly malicious and repugnant that even minor jokes about him breach social decorum. Jesus

Creator’s vehemently against it. Has been for 30 years

Usually this would indicate that they’re looking to add additional media, like a movie or show, but c&h is exceedingly unlikely to get any of that. What an odd move.