propter_hog [any, any]

There are websites like https://www.firsttimersonly.com/ that will help you in getting started

So they could make a Xed’s dead joke?

A few on this machine, mostly the usual “plug-n-play” suspects: openSUSE, Ubuntu, Mint, etc. I’ve narrowed it down to needing a specific driver which will have to be installed after the install, but I don’t have an extra thumb drive for it since the one external drive I do have will have the os on it, and I just haven’t been arsed to make it work on a single drive by modifying the partition to add a second one and put the driver there. It’s just a pain in the ass.

Yeah, mine was a pain in the ass. Haven’t sorted it yet. Must be a different chip set.

What did you do to get the keyboard and mouse to work?

Zypper is by far the best package manager available, providing atomic and reversible updates, and their open build service makes reproducible builds. Those two are by far the best things about openSUSE. It’s not without its faults, which is why I have switched away at times, but I always come back after using the crap available in other distros.

openSUSE is the best os in general, in my experience. I’ve kept coming back to it time and again for decades.

Because of course they do

Oh I definitely agree with you there. I just think GPL is close but not close enough.

That’s why the current state of open source licenses doesn’t work. Commercial use should be forbidden for free users. You could dual license the work, with a single, main license applying to everyone, and a second addendum license that just contains the clause for that specific use, be it personal or corporate. Corporate use of any kind requires supporting the project financially.

Obligatory “systemd was a mistake, they played us for absolute fools, yadda yadda yadda”

Nice

Good work investigating the cause and solution

Learn emacs

Someone have a local clone? Post it to a different host.

Asking the real questions

Thinkpads are a special kind of hit; love it

I believe System76 laptops come with Coreboot installed, or at least have it available as an option. Seems nice to have the vendor support versus hoping and praying that your hardware will work with it.

System 76