Bust out laptop. Try to look up a helpful variation of "Ubuntu USB live installer not working". Get a bunch of links to people saying "I got it to start partway, but..." Not helpful to me.

Fuck it. Gonna try the new Mint. DLing now, will redo the USB with it.

You #Linux people really need to make this shit Just Work for an average person, not a techie, if you want people to switch from Windows.

@audreygwinter@dice.camp Part of the problem with dual booting on the same disk is that Windows is not a good neighbor. You generally want to resize the disk from within windows. Sometimes windows updates would flat remove bootloaders. UEFI and secure boot just inherently make things harder and since Microsoft is a big partner in that, they had no desire to make things easier.

I gave up on that and just totally isolated windows and Linux to their own drives, with their own bootloaders. It’s a PITA but at least windows stopped nuking my Linux install every few months.

I agree the situation sucks. In a lot of cases I am not sure it can be made “better” without OEMs and other vendors working together.