24caratcoal
Plotbunny Rancher
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2016
- Messages
- 12,893
- Likes received
- 74,716
Huh. Seems that my computer hates the manjaro iso I downloaded, literally went out and bought a brand new flash drive for the express purpose of making it a boot disk and the computer acts like there's nothing on it. Strange and annoying since I want to try manjaro out on a laptop I bought last year on the cheap to convert to Mint for my old job only to find out first hand what kind of a pain in the ass goofy uefi is. Gonna see if ipdating helps or try a different iso if that fails (don't really wanna do that since I like xfce so far). Any suggestions if those options fail?
Edit: Haha! I figured it out. It was bios/uefi that was screwing everything up. Stupid secureboot was being a pain in the rump and not accepting manjaro as a valid choice.
edit2: Well, I was going to make this post from now now functional laptop (Suck it, Microsoft!) but it's in the middle of updates that i've already slowed down enough seeking the solution to my problem. That being the name og the Gnome Software Center (obvious in hindsight) since for whatever reason the devs didn't see fit to include it in the spins of Fedora. Was gonna do manjaro, but the installer was being a pain, so I said screw it and now I'm fully operational again through the power of a very popular hat. It's nice to know that, if I really want to, I can pick up my entire computer and just go out somewhere else and work. Not completely sold on the Acer Aspire 3's overall design, but I got it for like half off, so I can't really complain now that it's functional without Fail 10 gumming up the works.
Edit: Haha! I figured it out. It was bios/uefi that was screwing everything up. Stupid secureboot was being a pain in the rump and not accepting manjaro as a valid choice.
edit2: Well, I was going to make this post from now now functional laptop (Suck it, Microsoft!) but it's in the middle of updates that i've already slowed down enough seeking the solution to my problem. That being the name og the Gnome Software Center (obvious in hindsight) since for whatever reason the devs didn't see fit to include it in the spins of Fedora. Was gonna do manjaro, but the installer was being a pain, so I said screw it and now I'm fully operational again through the power of a very popular hat. It's nice to know that, if I really want to, I can pick up my entire computer and just go out somewhere else and work. Not completely sold on the Acer Aspire 3's overall design, but I got it for like half off, so I can't really complain now that it's functional without Fail 10 gumming up the works.
Last edited: