Thanks, it is. But other than thought I even have less time this week to experiment than anticipated. Will see when I come to it.
On the quick I didn't find this setting in Win11 by search, and translating the used terms to the German interface. On the other hand, would fast startup even work, when - as I do - always unplug the powersupply?
Thanks. Its one of the many distro isos downloaded already. I'll see when I find time to try them all.
unfortunately i don't know enough about the technical side of fast startup to be able to answer that. i was never quite sure how (if i am understanding it correctly) writing the system state to a hibernation file affected the wifi adapter. some time ago (so i don't have a link) i had read a description that said it had something to do with wake-on-lan.
when i do that in my windows 10 virtual machines, i see similar output to the image below those instructions:
Newbe here with first post. I've became increasing annoyed about Window notebooks the last 20 years. Before that no computers, travelling for 10 years before.
Whenever I tried linuxes on a USB, I always came to the point where I realized, I had to invest too steep in a learning curve, I'm not willing to. Like learning a new language - worth learning a whole culture and interesting people - but for a machine? I still prefer to meditate and communicate with real people for hours every day. Beside work, too few hours left..
What beside the monopoly, etc. annoyed me about windows machines the most, was that each notebook in those years had minor breakdowns, like usually the battery weakening or dying, the touchdisplay not working or broke, or the keys one by one not functioning anymore. Considered by the manufacturer irrepareable, or with the passing of time this technology always cheaper to buy a new one, instead of repair.
3 years ago with the last irreparable one I quit. Only used a android tablet since, and was surprised by its low-energy footprint: 7 Watts recharging, half that when charged. I considered Shiftbook bundle next, because modularly build and repairable. Sadly too powerful for my humble 95% use of browser, office and multimedia. And right now turned out with horrible battery runtime. And much too expensive for me.
So I had to decide now - tablet starts to pass out too - and bought a mini PC (8GB DDR, 128GB M.2 SSD, J4129, Windows10; for 120,- only), a touch display (11.6 inch), a simple keyport, mouse, and a 20AH powerback I already had. Therefore everything cheaply replaceable, without having to dispose a whole notebook each time, due to these 3 parts always broken after somr time - but separate now. Duh, took me a long time to realize something so simple
My plan, don't know if it works: Taking a simple light-weight distro for the 95% of time I use the computer, and run windows in a WM whenever at my wits-end. So a light as possible most of the use time. For that task: which tiny linux is easy on beginners with intuitive use for browser, office, media and has OS virtualization already included?
From an article, these seem from the lightest upward: TinyCore (not for beginners), Slax, Puppy, Elive, wattOZ, Slitaz, Debian.. Does anybody know if any of those could fulfill my requirements?
Or in a similiar region of system-requirements - almost nought nowadays - any distro close which would instead?
Reading up on these I found Slitax interesting, because as a server too, could be worked with over the internet. Would it work for me?
These commands gave each an output, I took pics of them with my iphone. However, for an unknown reason wasn't able to transfer as before at the moment. If your still interested, I could send as PM later.
Didn't get any - iphone, android, windows or linux to connect with each other. But honestly didn't really understand the instructions.
that works for me. i'd be happy to take a look.
where are you trying to download firefox from? in Discover, i can see a listing for firefox-esr (Extended Support Release) if i search for it exactly by that name. for some reason searching for just firefox doesn't seem to work.
i'm not sure why it's not listed with the other installed programs. that might be because it is installed from an outside source. i searched for it with
apt list '*chrome*' -i
Listing... Done
google-chrome-stable/stable,now 115.0.5790.110-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]apt remove -s google-chrome-stablesudo apt remove google-chrome-stableSeems exactly the case. Whenever starting the Q4OS installer, it starts to download additional installation files from within Windows. If that progress shows it would still take above an hour, the final installation always failed with the irresponsive black-screen with the text I already posted. When it first worked, it showed 12 minutes download-time. Just now under 10 minutes, and from such short installation downloads, the install works perfectly. This time I didn't choose the full-install, so google chrome was left out to begin with. Now I can choose what to add.
Like now
i realize you said endless didn't work so this may be superfluous. depending on what you are looking for in the long term, the license (or terms of use) of endless os is something that would give me pause: https://linuxreviews.org/Endless_OS#The_License
Thanks for making me aware. Deinstalled right away, initially wanted to keep it just as a fal-lback OS selection menu at boot-up.
Only remember seeing and installing there a firefox, don't remember if it was ESR. Will take a look when booting it up again. But now I'm bussy at downloading the ISOs again. Am at my workingplace with fast WLAN.
Didn't make a difference.
I was too much fixated on the bios boot order menu. Actually unter safe and exit at the bottom of the page there would have been each device mentioned to boot from next, select, save and exit. So only now I'm able to do without the boot-menu from Q4OS. Nevertheless it helped me to finally get there.
Wasn't there in Discover of my Q4OS.
Don't know why that changed general behaviour. But found tips, which recommends to hold the Shift key, upon clicking reboot. And this way it always brings up the boot menu.
i think i recall you were trying to avoid the command line, but in case it is of interest you could try
apt list firefox-esrapt list firefox-esr
Listing... Done
firefox-esr/oldstable-security 102.13.0esr-1~deb11u1 amd64sudo apt install firefox-esrit sounds like you found a functional way around it, but you had mentioned a windows 11 update in a previous post. i haven't dual booted windows and a linux distribution in a while. however, from time to time i have read posts that mention a windows update can sometimes make it harder to get into linux.
