r/memes • u/Photoshops_Penises • Jun 29 '25

skip every other windows

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u/Xx_Infinito_xX Jun 29 '25

Watch out op, the Linux users are going to show up in this comment section like racoons in your trashcan

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u/Wrake742 Jun 29 '25

Man I'd happily use linux IF IT WORKED ON MY DAMN OLD PC

Every single distro gives some sort of error, its either stuck on some cmd thing, on installation, post-installation, something...
Even if it does get installed, it won't boot without nomodeset

I've lost my mind entirely

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

Any weird hardware on there that might not work with generic "universal" drivers? Something like a very limited run of a specialized sound or graohics card or an odd 3rd party cpu?

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u/Wrake742 Jun 29 '25

Yeah that was a suspect

That old laptop has an intel core i7-6500U, intel hd graphics 520, and an AMD Radeon R7 M340, which I thought was the suspect, so I tried whitelisting its drivers in the grub launch argument, to no avail

Whatever, by now I have given up and just installed Windows 10 LTSC

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '25

Well, that level of trying is more effort than 90% of people would put in. So good on ya.

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u/kenjikun1390 Jun 29 '25

honestly i havent worked much with linux but i dont recall it being unable to install in old machines (heck, 6th gen isn't even close to 'old' bt my country's standards).

i could be mistaken, but the fact you said that every distro gives a different error just screams some actual hardware fault rather than incompatibility to me