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Starting to get the kinks worked out and doing normal life stuff on new OS. Hopefully I'll tell microsoft to piss off one day.

Update on my keyboard issue: When the boot select screen comes up the Linux Mint is the first option, if I let it do its little countdown for 8 seconds and it boots into linux everything is fine. However, if I don't wait the 8 seconds and I just push enter to expedite things to boot faster then my keyboard does not work. I have tested this numerous times with the same results. I guess I am learning to be more patient now!!

Starting to get the kinks worked out and doing normal life stuff on new OS. Hopefully I'll tell microsoft to piss off one day. Update on my keyboard issue: When the boot select screen comes up the Linux Mint is the first option, if I let it do its little countdown for 8 seconds and it boots into linux everything is fine. However, if I don't wait the 8 seconds and I just push enter to expedite things to boot faster then my keyboard does not work. I have tested this numerous times with the same results. I guess I am learning to be more patient now!!

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Congratulations my friend!

Now do Gentoo.

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I got mint, there are just thousands to pick from.

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No worries, it was meant as a (bad) joke. The thing is that Gentoo is like a build kit where you assemble and adjust things to your liking. And it is also a source based OS where _everything_ is compiled by the user.

However I do use Linux Mint on my work laptop since there are no time to do this kind of fiddling on company hours anyway, and Mint simply just works.

On my home computer I use Gentoo, and it's pretty nice for my needs. It did take me a full weekend + a few days to get it all ready.

I do hope you are able to get into and settle down with Linux Mint. It sure is worth it. Good luck!

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Thanks! Maybe in a couple years I'll look into Gentoo.