

don’t know if a refurbished thinkpad is good if you’re on a budget, by the time you realise you might have a couple dozen of them on your desk all running linux
don’t know if a refurbished thinkpad is good if you’re on a budget, by the time you realise you might have a couple dozen of them on your desk all running linux
just choose something that’s been around for a while, e.g. debian, opensuse, fedora, etc
iirc there’s instructions on completing the anubis challenge manually
everytime you copy paste a terminal command, try see if you can understand what it’s doing with:
$ tldr mycommand (you need tealdeer installed)
and
$ mycommand --help
imo this is way more concise and beginner friendly than reading man pages
so do they not have the same updates on fwupd/efi updaters?
i have more problems with them on x11 honestly
i’d recommend getting a new SSD and installing Linux on that, then you can read your windows drive from Linux and copy over the files you need
Game files can be copied over the same way (obvs to different directories)
wtf how does a laptop need drivers to use the keyboard? i thought they just used usb/ps2, that is truly fucked
with a usb drive (live usb) you can boot most distros without making changes to your actual system, try that and see which you like the most.
you’ll probably break your install a bunch of times anyway so don’t feel like your choice now is permanent
if you get a coreboot compatible laptop you can burn GRUB into your firmware so that it can’t ever be destroyed by windows.
Then you can boot into linux by having GRUB load the /boot/grub/grub.cfg file in your linux FS, or load windows by chainloading into another payload in firmware (e.g. SeaBIOS) that can load windows.
This is kinda advanced though, and there is a big limitation in that you can only run BIOS (not UEFI) because EDK2, which is the only coreboot payload that can do UEFI can’t be chainloaded into from grub
I assume bazzite uses kde?
if so, you should be able to press Super+P to open up the projection menu for changing how external monitors are used
make sure ports 80 (htttp) or 443 (https) are unblocked on your server
wtf the cookies banner on that site is fucked
yeah i can 100% imagine myself doing that, probably a good idea not to lmao
try not to get yourself in decision paralysis, if you mess something up it’ll be pretty easy to redo it anyway because you’ve learnt it already
if you have a preference just go with it imo, it’s easier to decide on a distro after you’ve tried a few
old T (until t440p) you could upgrade the cpu as well, and they are dirt cheap on aliexpress