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When did you go full Linux nerd? (lemmy.world)

submitted 22 hours ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Back when I was first in high school, I got into torrenting and gave myself pretty bad malware that just black-screened my laptop, and even though it had shipped with windows, the installer would not detect my ssd for whatever reason. Linux detected my hardware and I installed Ubuntu, then Mint, and I moved to Arch a few years ago after having learned the ropes. That's about when I fully spiralled into linux nerd.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

even though it had shipped with windows, the installer would not detect my ssd for whatever reason.

bios probably defaulted to using a storage mode (like 'raid' or intel's rst) that requires 'f6' drivers loaded during windows setup. solution would have been to either find those drivers or switch bios to 'normal' ahci mode.

[–] basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Oh is that what it was? Well, that's helpful to know, thanks! Though it turned out to be a blessing because it forced me to make the jump to linux and now I would hate to go back anyways...