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>can't get rid of bootmgr >take a closer look at the bios >turns out this laptop has two drives, one of which is an intel optane and that's where it resides >doesn't show up in linux how do i wipe this?
Andrew Miller
>doesn't show up in linux How are you determining that? Is it not in lsblk?
Oliver Morgan
nope, and i looked for nvme devices under /dev, tried gparted and everything.
turns out i needed to go to the uefi menu and set it to AHCI or something. however, installing debian can lock you out of this menu for some reason. it will literally freeze unless you remove the entry with efibootmgr.
Aaron Ross
Always disable the special snowflake Intel bullshit in UEFI before installing GNU/Linux on your lappy. You will literally never need it.
Ryan Peterson
yea, always disable on-board raid and other storage fuckery, linux has better options available on its own
Nicholas King
yeah, that actually works just fine. thanks. i wonder what i can do with a 16 GB ssd though. can you turn it into some kind of ramdisk? my distro doesn't fit in there.
Ethan Collins
you could use bcache to use it as cache for another disk
Tyler Cook
Just came to say that I am pretty happy with my switch to openrc. Glad to know my computer isn't pinging google on boot, and it is significantly easier for me to comprehend.
I can tell you've never spoken to a woman before. Almost none would even be able to identify it, much less give a shit that you use it.
Michael Fisher
not unless you spent most of your time in tty. hell just booting into grub will yield reaction like >oooh whats that are you hax0r
William Walker
Can someone explain to me why my desktop goes retard when I rotate my side monitor to portrait mode (using xrandr)? It ends up making my mouse clicks offset to where my cursor actually is. on artix
