I’m not sure if you’ll see this at this point but I’m running into a problem installing Mint and I was hoping you could offer some ideas.
When I get to the “Installation type” screen, I don’t have any options for how to partition. Anything I click on this screen crashes the installer. I’ve disabled secure boot but I can’t find any advice online for this specific problem for my laptop. Do you have any ideas?
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Thanks for your input! Fedora, Mint, and Ubuntu seem to be the most commonly recommended
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Counterpoint (and please, I am literally begging you to talk me off this cliff): Trump didn’t know anything about being President the first time. I believe that he thought Presidents could do whatever they wanted. The team he had around him, while you can call them assholes and pieces of shit and every other name in the book, understood how the government and the Presidency worked and were able to reign him in.
All of those people are now gone and he will be surrounded by purely yes-men. He will promote the Generals who will be loyal to him, not the country or the Constitution. Couple that with the newfound Presidential immunity, and Trump has all but free reign to do whatever he wants. He will also appoint judges, like Aileen Cannon, who are loyal to him. Those judges, thanks to the Supreme Court overturning the Chevron deference, will now be the “experts” instead of federal agencies.
I do agree that there probably won’t be a sudden shift, but there will be a shift and we will feel it in almost every aspect of our life. He supposedly promised to put RFK Jr in charge of numerous health agencies and campaigned on getting rid of the Department of Education. And I very much recall at least two instances where he said this is the last election you’ll have to vote in. Is he going to find/create a way to suspend the 2028 election and stay in power? Who’s going to stop him?
The major difference is that he’s not president this time, Biden is. Republicans only control the House, and that control is narrow. He will try, but he has very few people in government who support him this time.
Also potentially stupid fix: could it be the USB stick I’m using? I’m using a PNY 64 GB USB 3.2 Type C, do you think a regular Type A would be better?