Winux experiment part 2.
Well you just know how this is going to go, right?
Another hour of my life gone.
The first 30 minutes disappearing into the rabbit hole of switching from Microsoft document telling me to 'click here' for the relevant graphics driver file and the resulting trip to the mirror universe that is Intel's web site where they talk about the same thing but in a completely different way.
Okay, fine. Download their whole "update" software thing. Let it scan the machine (there's nothing important on it). Be slightly concerned about its cookies and a desire to "collect user data" because that makes their job easier. I am not your goddam beta tester! It turns up one driver; the graphics one I (apparently) want. I don't know; the whole process is as clear as sludge. Okay, install it; I don't actually care what happens to this machine.
I said install it! Is that so hard to understand? Oh, you have to click yet another 'install' button before it asks you to click before it asks you to click before it asks you to ...
Hey, people: these websites are designed by professionals!
Same one who also decide that when I'm right in the middle of doing something important like downloading and installing a graphic driver the computer decides it would be a good time to shut me down and update itself because of course whatever it wants to do is far more important than anything any user may be involved in. What the actual fuck? Fortunately you can click 'delay' and it holds off. For ten minutes. When you click again because the download/install task is no place near done. And again. And again. And ... my this is getting tiresome, isn't it? Makes you question your own sanity. Or that of the people who think this crap experience is acceptable.
Okay, it's done. HA! That part is done, but we are not done. You know that Ubuntu OS it downloaded yesterday? Well it's out of date and needs to be updated and upgraded and you need to watch the fun screen full of data swirling past as it eats a few more minutes out of your life. Of course after that it needs to be restarted. So does the driver demand to be. Right restart.
Did I mention Win11 runs as fast as a punch-tape reader? Maybe not that fast. Oh and if you think the computer smartly chose this full reboot moment to do whatever it was it felt it needed to do, you're wrong. It demands its own separate reboot 'cause it's special, dontcherknow?
After that it's time to get linuxy! Er, right after we install the gnome text editor so we can look at config files and stuff and change them. I said it's time to install ... oh, there we go. At least the linux part of this experiment is working. Now let's see what we got.
Errors. That's what we got. And a jammed linux prompt? No response from the terminal. Huh. Well looks like time for another reboot, and I haven't got anywhere near Wayland.
Did I say an hour out of my life? More like two.
The possible outcomes predicted in the previous post have not changed. Unless 'success' was one of them; that doesn't look at all likely. No, I'm pretty sure I predicted failure.