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arch troons need to learn their place and stop shitting up everything they touch. you shitters and retards need to go back.
>>108092931Cope and sneethe harder.
i'm trying to run a mint/ubuntu usb sticks on this old system i have lying around. it's a pretty old pc with 2gb ram, no gpu and a E6310 or whatever, 1.8ghz.the problem i'm having is that when i choose USB as the boot device, both systems just show a blinking cursor after the "pci devices listing" table and that's it.at one point i left it for 30 minutes but nothing happened. ubuntu one will show "GRUB" in front of the cursor but that's it.i know that this is a pretty old machine, but i thought it would at least run the installer and tell me to fuck off.
>>108093129>no gpuno dedicated GPU you mean?it has integrated GPU obvtry gentoo/arch installer, see if it loads the CLI livecd
>>108093129if that's a dell latitude, i don't see an "e6310", did you mean e6410? either way it's old enough that it might not support uefiboth mint and ubuntu afaik still support bios booting, how did you make the installation media?
>>108093215yeah i meant no dedicated gpu, there's a vga port on the mobo itselfi'll try another installer, thanks
>>108093237i meant the cpu, maybe e6320? it doesn't really matter, an old 1.8ghz core 2 duo. there's no uefi on this mobo af far as i see it.>how did you make the installation media?used rufus, i'm dling both livegui and minimal gentto installs, we'll see what happens
Looking for advice on good linux distroTech illiterate windows refugee, i just game and browse the web. I chose bazzite because it's designed for retards, but it's kind of a piece of shit. Is there a better linux distro, or do they all have issues? Some of my issues w/ Bazzite include:>bluetooth connection issues, sound drops out from headphones every 5 seconds>weird startup behavior, audio and visual artefacts>screen turns off when watching videos/playing music>xbox controller won't register when turned on, have to unplug and replug its USBthat's off the top of my head
>>108092911why there is no "regular" linux thread, only "friendly"?we shouldn't be friendly to gnu/noobs, they will polute linux userbase like vermin
>>108093385Yeah those sound like typical Bazzite containercucking issues. If you like the general interface of Bazzite then you should just use any NON-immutable distro with Plasma.
>>108093406The paradox of choice is making me sad and confused. Care to name a distro?
>>108093436Ultramarine KDE.
>>108093436debian
>>108093444Trips of truth>>108093457Debian is great unless you have an RTX 50xx card since there's no drivers yet
>>108093457>>108093444>>108093474grug remembers simpler times, when mac vs pc was only choice. now grug has to become computer genius just to enjoy his digital entertainment products. anyways, thanks for the advice. i'll try debian (gots me an amd GPU)
>>108093385>I chose bazzite because it's designed for retards, but it's kind of a piece of shit.Many such cases.Just install fedora kde, ultramarine or mint.
>>108093490>fedoraRedhat won't give you shekels pajeet. Stop harvesting linux newbies for big company testing environment
>>108093483The Debian website was made in grug times so it's a bit confusing to find a Debian Live ISO: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/You want the stable release, and Live KDE if you want a Windows-esque UI.
>>108093497Can you just stop this forced meme you stupid cunt? You realise Fedora Rawhide exists, right? That's the beta test. The main Fedora releases are completely solid operating systems and unless you are a retard who specifically enables telemetry, you are doing NOTHING to advance the development of downstream distributions like RHEL.
>>108093500>>108093483kde is meme desktop, use LXQt or xfce
>>108093497Then just use mint
>>108093500Thanks, freind
>>108093517yes saar pls to be using the needful Fedora, it is good softwares saart. Red Turban chaiwala
okay i dled a minimal-installation-iso, put in on a usb stick using rufus and it still doesn't work, there's a PCI Devices Listing screen etc, and then just a blinking cursor. tried mixing up some bios usb options, changing some rufus settings, and the outcome is always the same.which is pretty bizarre, honestly, 2 different usb sticks, 4 different isos.
>>108093517>You realise Fedora Rawhide exists, right?You realise newbies will google "fedora" and in stall the default shit? >The main Fedora releases are completely solid operating systemsok redhatjust stop giving any attention this corporate "distro" is niggerlicious shit
>>108093519>mintfork of a fork of debian fisher price pseudodistro for iPad kids
>>108093539>You realise newbies will google "fedora" and in stall the default shit?Answer this question: do you believe Fedora Rawhide is the default release channel of Fedora?
>>108093539>Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux ThreadIf you want to chimp out about muh big corpo, go to /fwt/ or make your own thread.
relax dipshits, you will scare the technologically challenged just come up with a coherent step by step guide on how to choose a distro and give it to himits like you've never worked with normies
