thin fable Dec 7, 2024, 3:26 AM

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So, got a laptop here that's windows 11, but it's on ARM architecture. When I look up if theres any distros for ARM, I've seen only server operating systems, and i'm just wondering if there's anything I can do to switch this over to a Linux distro that's not server or if I'm just going to be stuck on Windows with this particular laptop.

To be specific, here's the setup:
It's a Samsung galaxy book (not sure the exact model, msinfo32 gives me "Galaxy Book Go (Wi-Fi)")
snapdragon 7C Gen 2 at 2.55 gigahertz
4 gigabyte ram
Qualcomm adreno 618 gpu
120 gigabyte solid state drive

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I'm very new to Linux this is probably the second time I have installed it but I'm willing to try anything at least once

thin fable Dec 7, 2024, 3:48 AM

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so i've just found manjaro arm, getting mixed signals tho

sullen stirrup Dec 7, 2024, 6:32 AM

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There definitely are some ARM distros, I would expect more problems than an x86 laptop but you could try it
I wouldn't recommend getting rid of the windows though in case something goes especially wrong

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I would look into videos about the raspberry Pi, such as from jeff gearling, since he's made a few videos about gaming on a Pi (which uses basically debian with XFCE)

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If I was doing such a thing I would try debian with xfce to start off and experiment from there

mystic cove Dec 7, 2024, 8:22 AM

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thin fable So, got a laptop here that's windows 11, but it's on ARM architecture. When I lo...

Yes, arm distros are avaibale

mystic cove Dec 7, 2024, 9:29 AM

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https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/download

Fedora Workstation

We're so glad you've decided to give Fedora Workstation a try. We know you'll love it.

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Ubuntu arm as well

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Fedora workstation aarch64, could work

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It's prefect distro for your needs

opaque cosmos Dec 7, 2024, 11:37 AM

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EndeavourOS ARM has been discontinued
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mystic cove Dec 7, 2024, 11:38 AM

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Haven't they brought arm again?

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@opaque cosmos

opaque cosmos Dec 7, 2024, 11:38 AM

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No clue, seems to be in a rocky state though so I'd just hold off

mystic cove Dec 7, 2024, 11:39 AM

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Then mb

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I thought it came back again

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Since it was mentioned on their website

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Before that it said it was not avaiable

opaque cosmos Dec 7, 2024, 11:40 AM

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mystic cove I thought it came back again

It did but since they already discontinued then recontinued it without much prior warning I'd hold off on it

mystic cove Dec 7, 2024, 11:40 AM

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Ok

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I deleted the message

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I would recommend them to try fedora arm once

opaque cosmos Dec 7, 2024, 11:41 AM

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this

thin fable Dec 7, 2024, 2:03 PM

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mystic cove https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/download

gonna try this out on a dual boot at first! Thanks!

quartz abyss Dec 7, 2024, 11:07 PM

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thin fable gonna try this out on a dual boot at first! Thanks!

you'll need to get ventoy (ventoy.net) to flash a USB boot medium if that's your only computer. It has an AARCH64 GUI to set up the flash drive.

quartz abyss Dec 7, 2024, 11:23 PM

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After extracting the ventoyxxxx.tar.gz file

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also Ubuntu has ARM64 versions. Have seen it installed on raspberry pi 4 and 5

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also u can use the ventoyweb.sh in WSL if the other GUI doesnt work. see readme

mystic cove Dec 8, 2024, 4:31 AM

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They are using windows arm

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Stunner

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:38 AM

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shrugs

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WSL

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:06 PM

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i'm using a windows 11 x86-64 as well

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the laptop's just meant for school, and with 4GB of RAM, putting windows 11 on it was a horrible idea for Samsung idk what they were thinking but it's like permanently at 80% usage

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:13 PM

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thin fable the laptop's just meant for school, and with 4GB of RAM, putting windows 11 on i...

you can also put a nice light desktop environment such as LXQT on Debian for ARM64. The net installer lets you choose. (lightweight environments would be xfce, lxqt, mate)

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https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/arm64/iso-cd/

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:19 PM

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i've got an ubuntu iso rn that i tried to flash onto a USB from my main system using etcher

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and then the laptop didn't detect the drive as a bootable device so

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but that drive has been acting up recently anyway so I think it's just on its way out

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:19 PM

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thin fable but that drive has been acting up recently anyway so I think it's just on its wa...

Does it show up as a "Generic USB Flash Drive" or something similar?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:20 PM

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doesn't even show up

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i get windows boot manager and then hard drive uefi

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:20 PM

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I mean in etcher

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:20 PM

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use ventoy and set the option to GPT mode

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:20 PM

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opaque cosmos I mean in etcher

shows up in etcher

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:20 PM

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as?

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Because if it shows up as something like "Generic USB Flash Drive" theres a good chance its a fake drive

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:21 PM

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thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:21 PM

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opaque cosmos Because if it shows up as something like "Generic USB Flash Drive" theres a good...

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:22 PM

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some bios are fussy as fk and will ignore anything un-modern as a bootable device

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:22 PM

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thin fable

It's alr then

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:22 PM

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thus use the GPT option shown in pic above.

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:23 PM

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opaque cosmos It's alr then

idk why it wont show up on the laptop's bios tho

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for boot order

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:24 PM

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thin fable

It shows a location here, did windows show something along the lines of the USB being corrupted after you flashed it initially?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:24 PM

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no

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:25 PM

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If it was flashed correctly it shouldn't have a location

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:25 PM

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and i made sure to safely eject before plugging it into the laptop

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thats really weird

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:25 PM

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I'd recommend trying ventoy like stunner suggested

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:29 PM

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opened ventoy after unpacking the zip, what is happening?

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:30 PM

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thin fable opened ventoy after unpacking the zip, what is happening?

click option > partition style > GPT

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then click install

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:30 PM

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done

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:31 PM

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then you can copy your iso to the ventoy partition that should show in your file explorer, not the VTOYEFI partition

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:31 PM

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copy, not write?

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 4:32 PM

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copy

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:32 PM

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doing it now

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:34 PM

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thin fable doing it now

wait at least 45 full seconds after it finishes copying

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afterwards, u may attempt to reboot into the stick

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:37 PM

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done copying

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waiting the 45 like you said

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:40 PM

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thin fable waiting the 45 like you said

koo

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Ubuntu live should take about 2 minutes to boot up (on usb 2.0)

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@thin fable any progress?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:42 PM

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didn't detect the usb in a normal usb spot

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decided to try a conversion to usb-c

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it detected it then

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changed the boot order to the usb drive

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saved settings, and now it's updating windows??

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:43 PM

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make sure it's UEFI USB in the boot order

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:43 PM

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yeah it was

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but it booted into windows anyway

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and it's updating windows now

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:43 PM

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kek

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u sure u got the ubuntu ARM version?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:44 PM

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yeah that's what the website said

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:44 PM

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kk

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:44 PM

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it was ubuntu's website

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unless someone fucked me over 😭

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:44 PM

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i mean normally, u reboot, and if boot order is set (or u use the manual boot menu key at startup) u fire up the USB, and are greeted by white ventoy screen

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:44 PM

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guess i'll try a different arm distro

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idk

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:45 PM

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did u get the white screen?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:45 PM

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i got no screen it just went straight into windows

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:45 PM

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do manual boot key then

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:45 PM

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uhhh does anybody know the manual boot key for a samsung galaxy book go then??

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:45 PM

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is that a transformer/tablet?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:45 PM

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laptop

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:46 PM

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oh

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just google it.

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:46 PM

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already on it 👍

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:47 PM

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aka "boot menu key"

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:47 PM

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yeah i got it

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its f10\

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 4:47 PM

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just make sure ur F10 button actually DOES F10, and not some alternate function

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 4:52 PM

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manual boot key menu doesnt detect my drive apparently

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windows boot manager and uefi hard drive

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have to go get food, i'll have my phone tho

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 7:47 PM

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thin fable windows boot manager and uefi hard drive

UEFI hard drive may be a misnomer, but is the USB drive perhaps

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 8:19 PM

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the usb showed up as uefi usb drive in regular bios before

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and manual boot menu, clicking the uefi hard drive just loaded it into windows.

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but nothing I do will get it to boot off the usb drive, idk why

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any time i've tried doing this on a x86-64 system it just worked, plug it in and boot off it, i'm struggling to understand 😭

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 8:23 PM

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thin fable the usb showed up as uefi usb drive in regular bios before

set it to 'trusted' in bios, and/or disable secure boot

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 8:26 PM

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its booting into windows again

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and the light on the usb drive keeps turning off, as if it's getting disconnected during boot

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 8:27 PM

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try a different port. possibly a black usb 2.0 female type A port

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 8:27 PM

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this thing's only got two ports

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a usb 2.0 and a usb-c

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usb 2.0 the drive doesn't even show up on bios, usb-c it at least shows up

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 8:27 PM

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ok the former then

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check bios again

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enable all ports as bootable

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 8:31 PM

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there's nothing on here to enable or disable ports as bootable, whatever bios samsung put on here feels weird

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 8:31 PM

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thin fable opened ventoy after unpacking the zip, what is happening?

also recheck this step by running up the installer. ensure it shows GPT AND LOCK ICON on both the left and the right side version numbers

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 8:36 PM

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looks fine to me

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also i was looking it up, it looks like samsung just kind hates people trying to install alternate OSes

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so, idk, it's possible that they did something?

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not sure what that would be but

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i'm at a loss

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 8:45 PM

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gotta research that thing. is it 32 bit uefi? maybe use a raspberry pi flasher tool for this ARM thing

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 8:53 PM

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I'm not sure

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idk what kind of uefi it is, i just know that the device itself is arm

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my working theory is that samsung did something, idk

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:16 PM

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tried it on a new usb drive, its working now lmao

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okay so, new drive now it just stops whenever I click button

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the first option in the grub menu

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 9:28 PM

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any activity light on usb?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:28 PM

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no lights at all, also what I mean by it stops I mean it exits out of the menu and then boots into windows again

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 9:28 PM

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did u get ventoy screen?

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:28 PM

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so, at least we got further

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:29 PM

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quartz abyss did u get ventoy screen?

switched back to etcher for this drive, and it booted in just fine

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 9:29 PM

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k

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i dont think it's meant to be

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:30 PM

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i figured maybe the laptop didn't meet requirements or something

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i could try the debian for arm, but if it doesn't work after trying this, i don't think I have the willpower lol

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 9:31 PM

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best if use ethernet since it's a net installer

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:32 PM

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all ive got is wifi, no ethernet port on this or any kind of conversion

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is it just a speed thing or can there be actual problems on wifi for a net installer?

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 9:33 PM

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well i guees it gives option to log in to wireless networks

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:33 PM

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can't hurt to at least try.

quartz abyss Dec 8, 2024, 9:34 PM

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link above. including sha256 hash links

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:45 PM

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yeah, debian didn't work either

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clicked install and it restarted the PC

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 9:46 PM

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you could try https://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/arm-index.html

FatdogArm Linux

Fatdog64 Linux Home

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it's puppy linux based which means it'll be really light

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:47 PM

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i've run of out willpower lol, i'll try it later I gotta take a break

opaque cosmos Dec 8, 2024, 9:47 PM

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fair enough

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ARM is sort of hit or miss on linux atm

thin fable Dec 8, 2024, 9:50 PM

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lol at least x86-64 is working well enough. I've been considering dual booting my main pc and only using Windows when I have to, for games like call of duty where the anticheat doesn't work yet.

#just a question about distros for ARM

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