The elderly lady I run errands for had a Windows 10 laptop that wouldn't get past some funky cellphone looking screen when it boots. So she bought a new laptop and gave me the old one.
I don't even try to fix Windows anymore. It's easier to install Linux over it. I don't want any cellphone style UI crap on my desktop PC anyway - although I'm thinking I can do some cool shit with that big ass touchscreen in Linux. I was gonna install Debian on it, but this YouTuber got the touchscreen to work in Ubuntu on this computer with no problems, so I'm gonna try it instead.
The laptop does not have a CD or DVD drive. The usual way to install a new OS in that case is to burn the installer disk image (ISO) onto a USB thumb drive and tell the BIOS to boot from it. The closest thing I have on hand to a thumb drive is an SD card drive that connects via USB. Question is, will the bootloader accept it as a regular thumb drive? That's what we'll be experimenting with tonight.
I don't even try to fix Windows anymore. It's easier to install Linux over it. I don't want any cellphone style UI crap on my desktop PC anyway - although I'm thinking I can do some cool shit with that big ass touchscreen in Linux. I was gonna install Debian on it, but this YouTuber got the touchscreen to work in Ubuntu on this computer with no problems, so I'm gonna try it instead.
The laptop does not have a CD or DVD drive. The usual way to install a new OS in that case is to burn the installer disk image (ISO) onto a USB thumb drive and tell the BIOS to boot from it. The closest thing I have on hand to a thumb drive is an SD card drive that connects via USB. Question is, will the bootloader accept it as a regular thumb drive? That's what we'll be experimenting with tonight.
