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Are we in the stupidest timeline? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Shit.

I know shit's bad right now with all that starvin' bullshit. And the dust storms. And we runnin' out of French Fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.

Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Sorry this is taking so long between replies. You know, life stuff...

So I'm still at "Operating system not found”.

Here are screen captures taken with the Pop_OS live usb. First is from Disks, second is GParted.

Am I crazy or there's no boot partition? At this point I'm ready to switch to another distro but I'm still conviced I'm doing something incredibly stupid and I might learn something.

I am starting the process to immigrate to Canada from the US. Maybe unsurprisingly I find I have no ideas where I would like to live. I do enjoy mountains, and don't want to be in the heart of a city. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

*Laughs in Francophone in New Brunswick... *

Quick. Someone invent an AI that can block out the orange man’s face everywhere so we don’t have to subject ourselves to it for 4 more years. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

His voice... Do something about his voice. I just fucking can't take another 4 years of it.

Inside the Ruthless, Restless Final Days of Trump’s Campaign in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

For me, this paragraph sums it up:

_Several campaign officials had told me, throughout the spring and summer, how excited they were about working in the next Trump White House. Now those same people were telling me—as paperwork was being distributed internally to begin the process of placing personnel on the transition team and in the prospective administration—that they’d had a change of heart. The past three months had been the most unpleasant of their careers. Win or lose, they said, they were done with the chaos of Donald Trump—even if the nation was not. _

They had to be right next to Trump to realize how toxic he is. How voluntarily blind can you be?

They're gonna save themselves (of course), but will they do anything to save the country from Trump? No, of course not, that would require a spine.

Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

BalenaEtcher on Windows.

Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, everything seems to be there: bin, boot, dev, etc, home, … Strange.

Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I looked at every single thing in there and there wasn't anything about windows whatsoever. Thanks for the suggestion though!

Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I tried changing the order in Bios and switching order manually with F12. Same result. : (

Yeah, the black screen... When I did it and it went black, it came back to me that I had tried that before with the same result. I'm a slow learner! lol

Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I tried changing the order in Bios and switching order manually with F12. Same result. : (

Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Secure Boot was already disabled

As for the BIOS update, I'm going to read up on that.

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Help a 7-y.o. Kid Get His First Linux Gaming PC (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I hope it’s OK to post to this community to ask for help. If not, just let me know where I should go.

The Initial Situation

I have an old Aspire E1-472G with a GeForce 820M, which I’d like to give to my son who loves to play “There’s poop in my soup.” The laptop was fine with Mint for Office stuff and browsing, but I couldn’t get it to use the 820m to play games: it would always default to the onboard video card. I tried switching to the Nvidia drivers but all I got was a black screen. So I decided to format and install a gaming-friendly version of Linux. I opted for Pop!_OS, since it looked like it may solve my 820 m problem.

The Problem

I created a Pop!_OS boot USB drive, installation went fine, used defaults for partitions, rebooted, took out the USB drive and… “Operating System not found.”

What I did

Checked boot order: SSD drive is #2, right after USB.

Boot mode: Legacy Bios, but I’ve tried UEFI also–same result.

Tried reinstalling: same

Looked for help online: After reading dozens of posts and their solutions, I can’t get it to work but I suspect it has something to do with Boot Mode or the partitioning, but I can’t figure it out.

My level of skill

I come from Windows and I have installed Mint a few times. I can copy paste stuff in the Terminal, but really, I’m pretty much useless besides that.

What I Hope to Get

I’m not set on POP_OS so if there’s an easier solution, I’m all ears. I think I’m just overlooking something that would be obvious to a more experienced person.

Thanks for your help!

** Update 2024-11-03**

I had some time this morning to tinker with it.

Things I've tried

1-Manually change boot order/put ssd first in BIOS: same result

2-Tried reinstalling while manually doing the partition: same result.

3-While rebooting with boot key, I checked the files on the SSD: I'm no expert, but everything seems there. bin, boot, dev, etc, home, ...

4-Currently downloading the boot repair disk octopus_ink recommendend. It's 2.6G so it's taking a while.

Options I got left

1-Update the bios: seems easier said than done. I'm gonna have to read up on that. 2-Probably my next move: just give up and try another distro! I'm looking at Nobara. https://nobaraproject.org/

Thanks for the suggestions. If ever I get it to work, I'll report back.

Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

That was satisfying!

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Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin feared dead after Russia plane crash (www.bbc.co.uk)
 

Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a jet which crashed killing all on board, Russia's civil aviation authority has said.

Earlier, Wagner-linked Telegram channel Grey Zone reported the Embraer aircraft was shot down by air defences in the Tver region, north of Moscow.

The jet, which was flying from Moscow to St Petersburg, was carrying seven passengers and three crew.

Prigozhin led a failed mutiny against the Russian armed forces in June.

Grey Zone said local residents heard two bangs before the crash and saw two vapour trails.

Tass news agency said the plane caught fire on hitting the ground, adding that four bodies had already been found.

The aircraft had been in the air for less than half an hour, it said.

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