Dotdev

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[–] Dotdev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Mint has a more noob friendly approach with almost everything having a ui and it is Ubuntu under the hood so there wouldn't be extra to learn after switching. Popularity wise mint is one of the best stable distros with Ubuntu as its base with community support as well so if you have doubts you can most probably find the answer just by searching

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tried that as well but that as well uses usb boot so that is also net detecting

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How do you reset the firmware ?

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Factory defaults tried that

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Power through usb and the same on battery

[–] Dotdev 2 points 2 months ago

Same I have already given up on it as well

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago (9 children)

I have completed the windows setup with the usual 3 partition and I used Ubuntu as well but booting is not the problem, the bios just doesn't seem to pick up the pendrive

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago

Tried that as well no luck

[–] Dotdev 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The only other option is diagnostics that also doesnt work

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago

It's gpt due to the disk management, I went with it.

[–] Dotdev 1 points 2 months ago

I just got it this monday

[–] Dotdev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The usb port is working fine for normal transfers . The bios just doesn't wanna pick it . I tried with a friends hp laptop it works fine on his.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Dotdev to c/[email protected]
 

As the title says, my bootable usb is not showing up in the boot menu for my ThinkPad e14 AMD ryzen 5 7530u , gen 5 I think. I have disabled secure boot in the uefi and disabled fast startup in windows. Am I missing anything ? Note: this is my first time using a uefi bios so I don't know if there are any other kinks to mess with .

Edit : I contacted lenovo support for the above issue but even they couldn't find the answer so I guess won't be using linux for this laptop. But since it's for uni I guess it's fine. I will just use WSL

Edit 2: Reinstalled the bios , the usb boots now . Finally slapped opensuse on it and now running it

 

Well i started my B tech course this year, I am looking for a laptop for my use case. I am using linux as a main os for 3 years.

The laptop which i currently use is a Dell Inspiron N5110. Its a pretty old machine so i am currently looking for an upgrade.

Things which I do :

  1. Read documents
  2. Watch videos and listen to music
  3. Light coding
  4. Tinker with almost everything
  5. Try new software if i can.

I REALLY need a a laptop with good cooling and battery life like 5 hours is fine.

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