Re: Before Dimdows 10 Goes EOL, I'm Testing Linux To Save My Laptop From The Landfill

On Sat, 6/28/2025 2:26 AM, T wrote:

Rufus in Windows can burn Flash drives for you.
 
HTH,
-T

It's worth a try, but the author of Rufus has not tested
all 500 distributions with it. When I tried on Artix,
that didn't work and I was dropped to a grub prompt.

In the Year Of The Linux Desktop, we only get to quote
combinations personally tested. Rufus may have been
tested with some entries from the Debian part of the
Linux map, but Fedora is another matter. Similarly
the Debian-exosystem "Boot Repair", can repair a
Linux Mint boot problem or a Ubuntu boot problem, but when
I tried a Fedora, that failed to function properly too.
The Boot Repair has advanced a lot, since it was first
invented, and you can never do enough work on a Boot Repair
solution to keep absolutely everyone happy.

This is why there are two websites, where the only
topic is booting. And those sites are not particularly
suited to noobs, they eat noobs for lunch there.

   Paul