getting started desktop

mrmazda · 05-10-2022, 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jailbait

You can even get rid of that UEFI nonsense by changing the BIOS.

In some of the newest hardware combinations, that's false. I have one such that's not even latest generation hardware, Asus LGA1200 motherboard with B560 chipset.

And, UEFI is not nonsense. It's smarter booting, easier to multiboot, easier to fix if bootloader is corrupted.

cowboy1611 · 05-10-2022, 12:20 PM

Attached is my info.

I was told that I could just the usb stick, hold F8 which would bring
up a choice to boot via the USB with Ubuntu...... simple 1,2,3

At least that is what I was told.

rclark · 05-10-2022, 05:24 PM

That should work just fine if F8 is your BIOS boot menu key. Just install Linux on your USB stick and you should be good to go. You can then play around with it without affecting Windows currently installed. Note that it probably will be a bit slower getting around the Linux system on the USB stick. That is normal. Note I'd try latest Mint Cinnamon or KUbuntu to start as Gnome (standard Ubuntu) is a bit intimidating coming from Windows in my opinion.

cowboy1611 · 05-14-2022, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rclark

That should work just fine if F8 is your BIOS boot menu key. Just install Linux on your USB stick and you should be good to go. You can then play around with it without affecting Windows currently installed. Note that it probably will be a bit slower getting around the Linux system on the USB stick. That is normal. Note I'd try latest Mint Cinnamon or KUbuntu to start as Gnome (standard Ubuntu) is a bit intimidating coming from Windows in my opinion.

I did do this, F8 brought me to an OS like menu with the option (or that is what it looked like to me)
to boot from USB.... but nothing seemed to happen, it just opened up windows.....

Debian6to11 · 05-15-2022, 12:01 AM

From Windows, press the Shift key and shut down Windows. This will completely shut down Windows. Otherwise they do not completely shut down. Then try booting the USB again. It should work.

And your laptop is good enough to run most if not all the distributions. I have an older 2nd gen Pentium dual core laptop which runs multiple distributions quite well.

rclark · 05-15-2022, 08:12 PM

Sounds like the USB stick isn't bootable... I assume you 'installed' the ISO to the USB stick? Don't know MS's version of the software needed for that. Just copying the iso file to the USB doesn't work.