I reckon it could be related to the permissions required to write to the usb. Perhaps udev rules could help here?

I don’t see why it won’t play nice with linux but as to if you should buy this laptop… it doesn’t look in a good shape. I am a bit biased as I had poor experience with laptops with gpus. Old laptops can have bent heatsinks so you can’t control the temps no matter what. If yiu are hell bent on buying it then I’d recommend to stress test both gpu and cpu and look for heavy thermal throttling

Okay lol, my bad. I guess I have been living in an echo chamber when it comes to that game. Earth Defense Force. Love the series. You save the earth … by destroying it.

Okay had to dig into it but found it. It’s called Anurati font.

lol I guess you haven’t played EDF then?

Well the best thing about it is that she wouldn’t even touch linux before this. She’s primarily a mac user. But after I dragged her to see my desktop modifications, after 10 eye rolls, she said she could do much better job than me.

Hours later she was still at it, hairs scattered, baffled looking… saying how could someone live with so many choices lol.

The good thing out of this was that now she’s starting to see the point of linux after all these years.

Eh, let it fall. I have been wanting to replace that samsung 4k crap that looks worse than 1080p chinese monitors

Close. Army housing. It’s free so I am not complaining!

I always come back to OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Once I have everything setup, it’s stable as a rock and kde works really well on it.

After going through a rabbit hole what I learned that this patch does is to allow time critical applications at top priority.

Most of popular linux distributions already have this patch applied in one form or another.

What I think it means for end user is that if applications use this part of linux kernel correctly, then they can speed up some core parts, be more responsive, and stable. But if it’s abused, it can end up slowing the whole system.