And the attempt to install Linux and a boot selector alongside the existing system failed - it seems that it could not resize existing partition because of already mounted partitions, and I am not going to let it tampers with it at least until I am comfortable/desperate enough to tamper with those...
I always talk about mounting partitions while naked, don't you?!
And it seems that the Linux installer, despite not doing any real installing, somehow managed to mess up booting up the windows...
The Pendrive is brand new, if extremally cheap (32 GB, 30 złoty, or about 7.5-9 USD), bough specifically for Linux experimentation, USB 2.0, listed as read up to 12 MB/s...
That is *so* stereotypically Eastern European -- "It's USB 2.0 compatible! , but with USB 1.0 speeds!"
At least it was worth the price...
Linux Mint's Boot Repair function/program failed to solve the problem.
Trying to repair system using Windows 11 recovery disk Pendrive...
The Pendrive is brand new, if extremally cheap (32 GB, 30 złoty, or about 7.5-9 USD), bough specifically for Linux experimentation, USB 2.0, listed as read up to 12 MB/s...That is *so* stereotypically Eastern European -- "It's USB 2.0 compatible! , but with USB 1.0 speeds!"
At least it was worth the price...
It is German company (though 'made in China' ofc) with English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Polish, and (I think Dutch, though it is covered by safety sticker, so I am not sure) descriptions...
Linux Mint's Boot Repair function/program failed to solve the problem.
Trying to repair system using Windows 11 recovery
diskPendrive...
I might end getting that SSD for laptop while taking out the HDD, install Linux on SSD, while using external HDD pocket to get to the HDD and pull the files out of it.
Two hours later...
*sigh* Windows on laptop might be toast - attempts to recreate EFI keep failing...
Oh, great, now Linux installer freezes on steps that were relatively quick... Have I really messed up the HDD?
Have you tried control-alt-delete?
More seriously, check your BIOS for boot-level security and turn that s*** off. It's used by Windows for BitLocker and to prevent people from installing Linux on modern machines unless they know what they're doing.
That sounds really frustrating and scuzzy. Just how much better is Linux than Windows that even borking one's system trying to load the former isn't going to drive one back into the arms of Microsoft, if one wants to be cynical about it? ;)
I really need to upgrade from my old computer soon, but when I do, the plan is to convert the ancient of days to a Linux box to play around with, until she gives up the ghost. It's been a very long time since I last had one, and maybe this time I can actually stick with it long enough to learn something and get comfortable.
I think I mentioned, but Impus Minor very cautiously did his first Linux install on an obsolete laptop a few weeks ago.
Windows has been purged from every computer he owns. And it's not a small number -- I think he has 6 or 7.
More seriously, check your BIOS for boot-level security and turn that s*** off. It's used by Windows for BitLocker and to prevent people from installing Linux on modern machines unless they know what they're doing.
Yeah, it's BIOS level security, but it can't be turned off (Secure Boot: Enabled, grayed out and not selectable) - not easily, at least.
It's possible that I will go for a nuclear option when I will find some time to sit on it more: remove the HDD – insert a smaller (in capacity) laptop HDD I should have somewhere here, which is currently in external sleeve enclosure and try to install Linux on that – put the removed laptop HDD in the sleeve enclosure and check if I can access remaining things on it and move it on desktop.
Have you tried control-alt-delete?
I did, actually.
Apparently, it opened* some kind of Linux console that I had no idea how to turn off and get back to GUI, so I turned the laptop off.
*or it could have been Alt+F4, not sure.
I managed to exchange HDDs and access it externally from the desktop...
Wheee!
It also seems that Linux booted from pendrive does see the other HDD put inside the laptop...
So tomorrow I can actually try to install Linux there.
It was tedious - I need to get a table lamp for the desk for the bedroom. Here I have a stronger LED bulb than there, but I already had laptop moved there earlier.
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Linux installed on laptop...
It works. That's about that.
Me: "There's something I really want to say, but I'm not sure how."
Girlfriend: "Just say it."
Me: "Worcestershire."
'Woostersheer' is more or less right, phonetically.
Don't ask why.
I think it's sad that even Linux proves that growth = ensh*ttification. Remember when Ubuntu was the de-facto standard for all Linux installations because it was so easy, so similar to Windows that even noobs could use it, and it could run most Windows execuatables?
And so big money moved in and even in 2018 when I installed Ubuntu it had 30-40 pieces of crapware already installed; the likes of Adobe, Spotify, Netflix, and so forth all came pre-installed on your Linux machine. Just like a store-bought Windows machine that made you decide to switch to Linux in the first place.
And now Impus Minor tells me that Ubuntu is so bloated as to be unusable.
I hate growth.
And after 4 weeks off, I am both looking forward to and dreading tonight's resumption of the Babylon 5 game.
The final session before the break before the game was fantastic. The 5 sessions before that? Yawn-worthy.
So... just how will it be tonight, and which episode of Babylon 5 will we be playing through?
I think it's sad that even Linux proves that growth = ensh*ttification. Remember when Ubuntu was the de-facto standard for all Linux installations because it was so easy, so similar to Windows that even noobs could use it, and it could run most Windows execuatables?
And so big money moved in and even in 2018 when I installed Ubuntu it had 30-40 pieces of crapware already installed; the likes of Adobe, Spotify, Netflix, and so forth all came pre-installed on your Linux machine. Just like a store-bought Windows machine that made you decide to switch to Linux in the first place.
And now Impus Minor tells me that Ubuntu is so bloated as to be unusable.
I hate growth.
Have I dodged a bullet picking Linux Mint?
(images of Mint's Cinnamon interface won me over Ubuntu's GNOME)
I have finished Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
A beautiful game, beautiful music, beautiful movement, better progression than the Blind Forest, with much less frustrating moments (though not without them, especially chase sequences). I enjoyed it more than Silksong (I paused for now at Groal, who knows, knows).
The ending is... Happy-sad, to keep it spoiler free. I will miss that little spirit.
Me: "There's something I really want to say, but I'm not sure how."
Girlfriend: "Just say it."
Me: "Worcestershire."'Woostersheer' is more or less right, phonetically.
Don't ask why.
If I pronounce it that way around here, people will scoff at me.