Loading ...got meself a new computer and tried to load Linux onto it……Now that shud be a 10 minute job, download a version of Linux, make a bootable USB stick and load it up….
Got to the loading it up and just before the 4th step of filling in yr details a message comes up…This chip is running RST….what the ….is that …off u go onto the web to find out….well it is some fancy means of supposedly speeding the chip up and guess what it is Windows specific….well ain’t that convenient for Vaccine Bill, so nice of Intel….u then have to go into BIOS to turn it off….all the time flying blind, as a small mistake can wreck the whole show.
So then u get to load ur Mint Linux…got u, u evil barsteward…Mint is loaded now u can restart etc…so u do and then all u get is the machine going into rescue mode, which say no hardware problems, but cannot see an operating system !!!!!!
What the ‘eff….I just loaded it…off onto the Web and it turns out Evil Bill the Vaccine King, has created a new ‘security’ process called UEFI, whereby Versions of Windows from 8 on up have a security Key that allows the system to turn on….without the Key and being in Secure Mode, the machine don’t work….so the Linux systems are shut out….unless they pay Evil Bill the Vaccine King a fee, to get the Key , the big boys Red Hat, Ubuntu Mint and Suse etc have paid…but the small guys are left stuck on the side of the road.
But I did get it to work, after many hours……
Let no-one ever say that Evil Bill the Vaccine King is not operating a Cartel/Closed Shop, along with Intel.