Some laptops don’t really let you boot from external install media so easily nowadays.

I helped a buddy get Linux Mint on their “old” laptop to try it out. But it turned out you needed some manufacturer provided code to unlock booting from anything but the main harddrive within the bios.

We contacted support but never heard back. We did find a work around when they decided to swap the existing HDD for an SSD, they used a USB to sata cable to install Mint on the SSD from their desktop then installed the SSD into their laptop in place of the original drive so it booted straight into that.

EndeavourOS is the best because.

It’s currently on my system and said system hasn’t burst into flames yet, so I’m too lazy to change it.

Now I want to see the usage stats for e621.

The office job I had before Covid had machines with Windows XP stickers on the front running Windows 10.

Took near 10min to get to the login screen, and you had to remember to save all your work before trying to open an browser because it was semi common for Chrome to crash everything else, sometimes the whole computer. (and yes we were forced to use Chrome…)