I got it online. But i had to run this python script to remove ECC bytes
I want to thank you guys SO MUCH. When I was at my worst I got someone willing to help me and not only gave me vital information but offered to help. Im truly fucking blessed to have that. And im glad I made it this far.
It's honestly really funny, they include a button to use the old installer and it's like the installer reboots itself back into the Vista to 10 era installer that is actually competent.No offense but unless Microsoft drastically shat up the installer recently how do you fuck that one up?
I haven't daily driven Windows in yearsbut from what I remember it only asks basic questions like what drive partition you want it on, your name and password, etc, and then restarts into a clean slate. Hardly different than "easy" distros like Mint that use graphical installers
Two big recent regressions in the MS installer:
Flash forward to 3 years from now when Windows forks Calamares and just starts using that.
Lets put that into perspective.Had to help my Mom who works at a Buisness with a issue with windows 11. It was my FIRST time EVER using Windows 11 for like 10 minutes and LMAO it just gets worse EVERY YEAR. She works in IT and has to use Command prompt and stuff and honestly shes about a standard semi-power user. I do not know HOW she puts up with this. Again Ive been lucky enough to have NEVER installed or used Windows 11.
Windows 12 Users when Microjew rips out there organs for AI organ harvesting while there still alive and eats them(This is OK because at least they don't have to use a terminal like on li*ux)
Lets acutally Go over the GENUIS microsofts devolpers code currently in windows 11.
First off ALL WINDOWS are rendered non rounded. And then they become rounded after like a second. This means they keep ALL the normal window rendering code, and then just APPLY NEW STUFF AFTER ITS DONE INSTEAD OF JUST TWEAKING THE ALREADY EXISTING CODE BECAUSE THERE TO LAZY.
Most of the CODE it seems does not seem to be redone but rather BUILT ONTOP of existing code and they never remove anything? Its so bad that I had to restart explorer and there STILL USING THE SAME ALT TAB SYSTEM FROM WINDOWS XP
THEY JUST LAYER THE NEW ONE WHILE THE OLD ONE IS STILL RUNNING DOING EVERYTHING IN THE BACKGROUND.
There is apparently a github page SHOWING all the things that have not changed https://github.com/Lentern/windows-11-inconsistencies
UNCHNAGED SINCE WINDOWS 98!!!!.
That means they are likely using a MULTIUDE OF DIFFERENT COMPILERS ALL ACROSS DECADES IN ORDER TO MANAGE WINDOWS. JUST THINK HOW FUCKING ABSURD THAT IS.
Most of the time their dlls and exes just have the old stuff left in place and add new things, it's not so much the old one is still running just that they swap out the UI and left the core the same. It's actually nice from a customizability standpoint because you can for example switch back to both the Windows 10 and Windows 7 style volume slider if you just don't like the new one (because it is slow and hard to read).
Is this not common knowledge already? Win7 still had WindowsXP shit, and Win10 Still has Win7 shit.
yeah. the most recent time I had to see the windows installer the install locally option was entirely missing. I know you can go into the command line, and re-enable it with that or or something. But I think it's easy to say at this point, installing linux mint is easier than installing windows. That is, if you want to install windows without making a Microsoft account, and it's definitely easier than actually stripping down windows into something that isn't a bloated piece of shit. Thankfully I don't have to deal with it, and the only time I even think about it is when I see it is in cases like this where I was going to install linux anyway, but the computer just happened to be set up to boot into the windows installer.
Given that you've ruled Gentoo out already, maybe try something systemd-free? Artix? Devuan?
Anything works really. I personally use dwm on arch linux but since you dont like arch maybe artix. I have also used dwm on openbsd.
yeah i use artix on my main desktop, i think devuan might make more sense for this laptop as its not something i use often so i dont want to update it all the time
Venderfoul Wolf?
Doesn't freebsd have a gaping hole where the device drivers should be? Like you'd have a really hard time getting things to work on most laptop.
thats my main hurdle rn is finding something that supports hardware, is relatively minimal but isnt a pain in the ass to setup once ur actually in it
does devuan have real runit/openrc or is it still just wrappers over sysvinit with major rollbacks
as much as id like to go back to my busybox musl days i do like my shit actually working without a lot of headache lol
https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom - apparently both runit and openrc are the two non-sysv inits it supported first. I don't use .DEB distroes any more save Debian Stable on my servers, so I dunno well.
yeah i had just heard from other people that it used to be their "runit" and "openrc" were just wrappers for sysvinit instead of actually running the init system
The only true Suckless(tm) distro I’m aware of is Oasis Linux. Be warned, it’s almost certainly not what you’re after. It does have a lot of neat things in it, however. The guy behind it made a library for primitive drawing in wayland, made patches for dmenu and st to port them to wayland using this library, then chose to distribute those patches exclusively through his personal Linux distro.
