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  • I had a similar issue on a Dell Latitude a few weeks ago, with installing Mint though. The problem there was that it had an entry in the BIOS that was called something like “Windows Boot Loader”. So Mint could find the OS with the Live USB, but not when starting the Laptop. Turned out, only unchecking that entry didn’t do the trick, I had to delete it in the BIOS and that worked by clicking into the entry, then a button would appear that let me delete it. I only ran into that solution by chance. Maybe you can check the BIOS for any sorts of entries like that. Please let us know how it goes.











  • Kory@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlLinux middle ground?
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    2 months ago

    From their website:

    "Update on Your Terms

    Pop!_OS provides the latest features and security patches through rolling updates and periodic OS version upgrades, to be performed at your discretion. And if you want a clean slate, the Refresh Install feature resets your OS while preserving the files in your Home folder. "









  • I like the idea of immutable distros a lot, but I realised they are not for me, at least not now.

    I couldn’t install global themes because the SDDM is immutable. There is a workaround, but it didn’t work 100% for me.

    I couldn’t get Steam to put shortcuts on the desktop (it’s a known thing, simply I didn’t know it). It only worked with Bazzite which comes with Steam preinstalled. But then I couldn’t edit these shortcuts (for example: -silent) because if I did, they would vanish.

    Then I experimented with Waydroid. There was something I wanted to test but couldn’t use the online advice because Bazzite/Aurora doesn’t have dnf for example.

    There were other little things I’m used to tinker on my system and couldn’t so I realised, I wanna stick with other distros for the moment.