[-] HistoPol@mastodon.social 0 points 2 years ago

@vipaal

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Thank you very much for your help and your kind words in particular.

I might try again later on, but for now, I need to get my PC moving again.
Strange that it did not work out with the old ASUS laptop either.

I will bookmark this post to be able to get back to it.

Funny enough, creating the Win10 bootstick was a piece of cake (as well) and the installation went smoothly (apart from the "1 m." updates and restarts).
Strange, with the...

@amunizp @Linux4Everyone @linux

[-] HistoPol@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago

@vipaal @amunizp @Linux4Everyone @linux

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...e up on UBUNTU and use the flash drive to generate a windows bootstick. Too bad.

But thanks again.

[-] HistoPol@mastodon.social 1 points 2 years ago

@vipaal

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...-no changes possible.
I then Powered Off the system and it hung in several error lines. - Too risky for me and the 1024x768 is unusable nowadays.

So, final verdict: OMEN is incompatible with UBUNTU, at least.

Also, I tried to use the Boot Stick on my old ASUS. I did add the USBdrive as 1st boot priority. However, the Laptop does not recognize any bootable OS at all.
I therefore giv

@amunizp @Linux4Everyone @linux

[-] HistoPol@mastodon.social 0 points 2 years ago

@amunizp @ubuntu @Linux4Everyone @linux

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Thanks will look at this tomorrow.

No, the PC had (!) already not been working anymore b/c some smart-ass HP support technician thought it necessary to update the BIOS as a 1st step in finding about why the replaced battery did not work longer than only 45 min. Now, the PC doesn't find a bookable OS on the 2 upgrade SSD's anymore, that had been working nicely for several years. What he should...

[-] HistoPol@mastodon.social 0 points 2 years ago

@pyarra

I get that point, which is what I had hoped for to switch.
However, I would still be working on a "Windows PC," though a virtual one, as I work with MS O365 must of the time, apart from the browser and some other app's for editing pictures, pdf's, etc., but that is just "cosmetics."

I am not a security pro, but my VM would still be hooked up to the WWW, so what is the (security/privacy) difference - apart from that I can more easily reset the PC to an earlier state?

Also, you still..

[-] HistoPol@mastodon.social 0 points 2 years ago

@amunizp

The system did start and looks sort of like a windows 1.0 desktop, but in white on bright yellow, almost unreadable.

Thoughts?

@Linux4Everyone @linux

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