yeah i can 100% imagine myself doing that, probably a good idea not to lmao

try not to get yourself in decision paralysis, if you mess something up it’ll be pretty easy to redo it anyway because you’ve learnt it already

if you have a preference just go with it imo, it’s easier to decide on a distro after you’ve tried a few

you could also make an alias for rm that just move things to the trash bin thingy

I had a problem once booting into linux with it enabled, this was quite a while ago and it works fine now but mint could be running on a kernel old enough to have problems with it?

seems like a secure boot issue, make sure in your bios settings:

• Windows fast boot is disabled
• Secure boot is disabled
• AVX512 is disabled (if you have an option for it in cpu settings)

you don’t need to settle on a distro straight away, try them out and switch off you don’t like them

i think you’d save more money/environment by selling the battery right now to someone that will use it, there’s quite a lot of demand for new first party batteries

dolphin is a file manager

https://github.com/libimobiledevice/idevicerestore

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/IOS

you can restore on Linux i think, but you have to use the cli

modern laptops are like 8w right? it’s probably a few orders of magnitude lower than the power consumption of your appliances

try installing btop and having a look at the gpu utilisation when you’re running stuff

how is the signal strength? did you open up the laptop to swap the ssd or something?

I’m a big fan of debian (with their netinstaller) for stuff like this, it allows you to pick the desktops you want to install during the install process and it does everything else for you

before you actually commit though, you should test the distros you’re interested in in a vm to get a gist for how it works

this is actually so insanely epic, good job!

pretty cool of the principal too to allow you to do stuff like this

distros don’t really matter in this case, the hardware I was using was simply not supported by the kernel

“fine” if you don’t need sleep states or wifi/bt

i think it’s a pretty recent phone wrt the pmos standards

is this issues with encode/decode? it was finicky to set up on my nvidia setup as well, and getting Firefox to work with it was another nightmare

I think Ubuntu has a lot of influence in industry