That’s one of the first things I did actually, I’ve found basic things that I don’t usually consider tend to end up being the problem for me in the end, however it’s not the case this time.

I was considering doing that as a last resort. My understanding is that nomodeset just pretty heavily nerfs GPU performance, you can’t do GPU acceleration, things will be a lower resolution etc, and again this machine doesn’t even have a dedicated GPU so for the use case I imagine the device in that shouldn’t really matter. I’ve been using it with nomodeset just fine and everything looks great and I don’t feel like I’m getting a lesser experience, but if I can get a permanent fix that works I’d rather go with that.

I guess that compatibility could be worth checking, but besides the swap for the SSD it is all the original components, I’d assume there wouldn’t really be any issues with that. I’m not gonna turn anything down though it could be worth just giving that a quick try.

Oh yes sorry I should have specified. It’s not just a black screen or anything it’s as though I unplugged the hdmi cable or something. I’ll see the Linux mint logo for a bit, it’ll fade to black, then my monitor just says “no signal” and turns itself off. The computer is still on, it’s not like it shuts itself off, it just doesn’t output anything.

I bought a massive box of dishwashing powder a bit over a year ago and I’m maybe halfway through it, it’s like magic. Thank you technology connections!

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You cooked this is what I was lookin for, thanks man

LocalSend is not the tool for this, it’s basically just like an airdrop clone. I think you might be able to do that with Syncthing though, but I’ve never used it myself. Could be worth looking into though, and simpler to set up than something like Nextcloud.

I agree with this tremendously

The github repo has activity, but the last stable release (1.2.2) released 5 years ago. I’m not really interested in using the nightly build

For sure the ideal scenario. I wish you luck friend

It sure is possible, I’m currently dual booting win11 and fedora on my laptop, so they actually share a drive.

If you want to do it on one drive I’d recommend first shrinking your windows partition to whatever size your comfortable with in the windows disk management tool (whatever they call it, I don’t remember off the top of my head), then when you initialize a Linux mint install it should be able to recognize that windows partition. From there it’ll give you the option to either wipe the whole drive, or install in the empty space alongside Windows.

For what it’s worth I’ve had little to no issues dual booting both, it’s been working for me just fine. Although I will say, I think I actually have bitlocker encryption disabled, though I can’t say for certain and am unable to check at the moment. It would make sense for that to cause issues, so it would definitely be worth looking into.

Lol you’re fine, I wasn’t trying to be sarcastic here it was a genuine response I thought it was funny :)

This is the answers I come to Lemmy for thank you bestie

I guess I should restate, I more so just meant I don’t mind it being wired I actually just meant external. I’ll edit my post but I’ll have to check out the ploopy trackpad since you’ve praised it so much!