Nothing to add, just appreciate the write up! Informative AF

I just watched this movie last night! Seriously one of the coolest pieces of Cinema ever made!

I run mint on my “home entertainment center”. Just an old laptop with a wireless mouse and keyboard.

Granted I don’t use it for much, but once I had mint on it, I’ve only used the desktop environment. Mostly because I’m leaning back in a slothful, shameful lump, and this is not conducive to typing. So I spend way too long pecking at things with the mouse.

Pain in the ass? Yes.

Way more tedious and time consuming? Yes

Possible? Also yes

Ty!

sam@sam-ROG-Strix-G531GT-GL531GT:~$ prime-run glxinfo | grep i vendor grep: vendor: No such file or directory

prime-run: command not found

this seems to imply it ll switch the gpu on or off depending on load

glxinfo | grep -i vendor server glx vendor string: SGI client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI Vendor: Intel (0x8086) OpenGL vendor string: Intel

so this means im using my proccesor and not gpu to render shite?

Probably a day late and a dollar short but here:

I was having issues until I turned secure boot off. I also have to have two graphical drivers running.

This page helped out https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=370633

Ya I was wondering why I couldn’t download it in that state already directly to the drive. But I suppose there was already some formatting that needed to be stripped down before it could function as a boot strapper or whatever it’s called.

Seriously thank you all for reaching out. I thought like maybe one person would begrudgingly link me a copy of Linux for dummies, but you all were so helpful!

And it really wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I have memories of messing with Linux in like… 04 or 5 maybe? The ease of use has come a long way, applications are just working without fuss. 10/10

I went for it, kept what I wanted on an external hard drive and nuked the rest. No ragrets

Good to know ty! I’ve heard of proton but don’t know a lot about it. I’ll definitely be looking into it. I have a crappy Nvidia card. We’ll see how that goes

That’s exactly what I’m looking for. I don’t need much out of it. I just can’t take widows shit anymore. The latest update broke me

Ty, great advice

This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!

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