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blog:2025:0826blaugust_23_linux_woes [2025/08/26 05:23] – [Babbling] scumsuckblog:2025:0826blaugust_23_linux_woes [2025/08/26 07:40] (current) – [Blaugust 23: Linux woes] scumsuck
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-Shane's mom got a laptop from some guy at her work.  It's an HP Pavilion 7, which was manufactured 12 years ago and still has Windows 7, and I figured it'd be a good test subject to install Linux on.  Since [[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support|Windows is ending their support for the operating system from 7-10]], it's recommended to [[https://endof10.org/|breathe some new life into older computers by installing Linux]].  Especially if you're like me and hate Windows 11 and all the non-con genAI cortana gemini whatever shit.+[[:about:deflectric|Shane]]'s mom got a laptop from some guy at her work.  It's an HP Pavilion 7, which was manufactured 12 years ago and still has Windows 7, and I figured it'd be a good test subject to install Linux on.  Since [[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support|Windows is ending their support for the operating system from 7-10]], it's recommended to [[https://endof10.org/|breathe some new life into older computers by installing Linux]].  Especially if you're like me and hate Windows 11 and all the non-con genAI cortana gemini whatever shit.
  
 But despite every tech nerd online saying "Linux is so easy to install even my 7 year old nephew can do it, why can't YOU, you stupid ugly asshole???", I have [[drafts:2025:0825linux_install#what_do|failed on my first day of attempting to install Linux]]!  Yippee!  There's something wrong with the laptop or the USBs we got.  I documented everything I did on that drafts page so I can look back and be like "wow!", and maybe it will help someone else who is using the same oldass laptop as me. But despite every tech nerd online saying "Linux is so easy to install even my 7 year old nephew can do it, why can't YOU, you stupid ugly asshole???", I have [[drafts:2025:0825linux_install#what_do|failed on my first day of attempting to install Linux]]!  Yippee!  There's something wrong with the laptop or the USBs we got.  I documented everything I did on that drafts page so I can look back and be like "wow!", and maybe it will help someone else who is using the same oldass laptop as me.
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