Story time: it’s been a bit of a journey, but I’m happy to report that my setup is back up under #Linux again.
It’s a bit of a long story, but in essence when I bought my new (to me) system it came with W11 key so I decided to roll with it out since I came of age on Windows and am far more comfortable/competent within that environment (I can do things in Windoze with a couple of clicks that take me hours of researching and frustration with the penguin.)
But then, one day on boot I got this takeover nag screen trying to coerce me into connecting a Microsoft account. I couldn’t close it, I couldn’t kill the task. It was only after a bit of hunting around that I found a way to ‘skip for now’.
But I just know in my bones that ‘for now’ doesn’t meant ‘forever’.
So I stuck with it, blew some shit up. Had a couple of false starts and fuckups. But now it’s up, it works and it’s awesome. (Debian 13 with Gnome is a beautiful thing).