Man, I’m so out of touch, apparently 😂

Are you one? This is making zero sense.

This link is about leaked Twitter data.

I did read it, and my comment is exactly referencing the attitude of the author which is “It’s good enough, so you should use it”. I disagree, and say it’s another dumbass shortcut to cash grab on a less than stellar ecosystem and product. It’s training wheels for failure.

Automating parts of something as a reference tool is a WILDLY different thing than differing to AI to finalize your code, which will be shitcode.

Anybody right now who is programming that is letting AI code out there is bad at their job.

Well then you won’t have touch input. Resource limitations are a thing.

Touchscreen is a DE input function. Try KDE or Gnome, or just give up.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/customizing_the_gnome_desktop_environment/managing-gnome-shell-extensions-via-command-line_customizing-the-gnome-desktop-environment

Every part of the world is. It’s not unique to the US. Laws need to be passed to stop this.

This is really user error, but if you want to be insane instead of using a proper workflow to prevent things like this: https://www.howtogeek.com/790679/how-to-use-the-chattr-command-on-linux/

The only interaction Windows would have with a Linux partition is fudging the boot record. If it’s booting to emergency mode, you likely got a bad update. It should give you the option to boot to a previous working kernel if you hold down the shift or an arrow key while booting to grub. Just pick a previous known good version and start repair from there.

Model of the machine or the NIC/WiFi module would be useful.

Are you sure you can? Did you look up the model number and check for manuals or docs?

It looks like it might be under the black plastic cover to the left of the RAM, or under where you have it placed in your picture. Then again, it could not be accessible from this side of the main board, and you might have to look under the keyboard.

Manual would be better than guessing though.

Your machine isn’t shutting down, it’s trying to sleep.

You also have active KVM instances which are fighting to keep it alive.

Run a LiveUSB of anything else. If it works, install that instead.

You just “snapshot” the existing disk and run it in a VM like VirtualBox or something. Then that new disk image works as the “new” disk for the VM.

You’re overcomplicating things.

If you have an existing Win10 install, just format the new SSD for whatever distro, install, and set the boot target for the new SSD drive.

Then run Linux for a bit, make sure everything works, and make an image of the already existing Win10 partition to run in a VM.

Much simpler.

Also: almost all tax software runs in a browser now. If not then it will run under Wine or Proton. I think you have less to worry about than you think.

They said they want to “learn Linux”. Immutable distros are not how Linux runs in its native form, but a utilitarian way of running it for a specific purpose. You must understand the thing before you speak on the thing.

It absolutely does. Don’t know how you don’t see that.

Debian is intentionally built for LTS, so a bit behind on modern Desktop updates and such.

Great for a stable server/dev system, but not great if you’re expecting modern DE features.