Hi! I have a little problem with Pop OS.

[prisma sequoia]

Hey guys! I have a pretty bad lenovo yoga gen 4 (i got it from my school). It's almost unable to run windows, so I decided to Install Linux on it.
When I got to the 'select the drive' part, only 15 gigs of the 120 was recognized.
Any idea why?

[ornate ruin]

Pop!_OS is a bit buggy sometimes with the installer. Can you run sudo fdisk -l in the terminal and send the output? It will tell us a lot more about the disks

[prisma sequoia]

i will try

[prisma sequoia]

the 120 gig drive is right there

[ornate ruin]

And the installer can't see it?

[ornate ruin]

Can you show me what the installers says?

[prisma sequoia]

of course

[ornate ruin]

Ohh okay, I think I know what's happening. In the terminal, run sudo wipefs -a /dev/sdb and make sure to check spelling, as that command COMPLETELY WIPES THE DRIVE. It can be recovered, but it is VERY VERY HARD

[ornate ruin]

Interesting

[prisma sequoia]

i dont need any of my data here, i will try

[ornate ruin]

That's what I thought

Just so you don't nuke the installer

[prisma sequoia]

oh, alright

[ornate ruin]

that can happen

[prisma sequoia]

i ran the command, but it din't seem to do anything

[ornate ruin]

You need to restart the installer

Otherwise you can simply try to install, it might just be a UI bug and it will probably work just fine

[prisma sequoia]

alright

[ornate ruin]

Only the installer, the live image can stay online

So click "Cancel Installation" and re-open it

[prisma sequoia]

alright

[prisma sequoia]

it doesnt let me select the drive

it says, that the "disk does not meet the minimal requirement

[ornate ruin]

Ohh okay. Then I would recommend trying a different distro

[ornate ruin]

Okay RIP

[prisma sequoia]

which one do you recommend?

[prisma sequoia]

oh okay

[ornate ruin]

I would recommend EndeavourOS or Linux Mint

[prisma sequoia]

alright, i will try them

thanks for your help

[prisma sequoia]

thank you so much! i installed endeavour os and its amazing

[ornate ruin]

What desktop did you choose? I would assume GNOME?

[prisma sequoia]

i use that one

[ornate ruin]

Very nice. Imo second best Desktop Environment, after Xfce (but I only prefer Xfce because of its customisation. I use Hyprland myself with a LOT of customisation. I am currently working on rewriting my whole status bar and various other components of the desktop)

[ornate ruin]

Very nice workflow don’t you think?