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[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It took me two hours from the moment I started popping my laptop case open to add a new SSD to first boot on Linux. And figuring out how to disable secure boot on Acer's fancy ass BIOS was what took most of the time.