I know it just came out, but does anyone have experience with Debian's amd64 architecture? Last time I tried to install Ubuntu, but it had a serious issue with my using an AMD chipset with an nVidia GPU and no onboard video - so there was a big debacle about signed vs. nonsigned drivers, and it was just a whole big pain in the ass because I had to try to log on to my root as someone else to get the permissions to download nVidia drivers, and I threw my hands up and bought another copy of Windows10. Now that amd64 architecture has been released, TAILS seems to have no problem running live across that same system and Debian showed no issues booting and running in an Oracle Virtual Box. I can't even try it on Aislynn's old MSI laptop, which Windows swears it can't operate any longer due to the extensive hard drive damage... which can't be found running chkdsk, scandisk, or any other disk facilities and when I plug it into my desktop, the drive works just fine... because that one has an Intel core i5 chip instead of AMD.
Why am I getting into all of this again, you may ask? Well, it's because my OS is falling apart and I no longer want Google to have nearly as much control over my desktop as it does in Windows. The other day I tried to turn on Backup and Sync on my current desktop so it would stop throwing invites to Aislynn, who's using one of my old desktops now that her laptop got eaten by Windows. Instead of doing anything useful, it logged me out of my main profile, created a new desktop image for me, and forced me to log back in to every. single. website. And to re-establish connections with every. single. app. and. extension. It took me three hours to figure out what the hell Google had done, and then two days to fix it - after uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome for a clean install. Then there was the IPv6 issue... I (on purpose) disabled my IPv6 routing from netstat and netsh, and now I can never use IPv6 again, regardless of how many Windows 10 tips and tricks I try, I cannot get IPv6 to turn back on, my VPN hasn't worked since then, and I'm stuck publicly broadcasting everything I do over Spectrum - which is no bueno.
Now, I can either reset Windows 10 to factory settings AGAIN for the second time in the last 12 months, or I can get rid of this complete and utter pile of garbage and never look back. But I'd love to know that I'm not going to be pulling my hair out again because I apparently stupidly decided not to be able to afford a new video card when I replaced my last computer.
Why am I getting into all of this again, you may ask? Well, it's because my OS is falling apart and I no longer want Google to have nearly as much control over my desktop as it does in Windows. The other day I tried to turn on Backup and Sync on my current desktop so it would stop throwing invites to Aislynn, who's using one of my old desktops now that her laptop got eaten by Windows. Instead of doing anything useful, it logged me out of my main profile, created a new desktop image for me, and forced me to log back in to every. single. website. And to re-establish connections with every. single. app. and. extension. It took me three hours to figure out what the hell Google had done, and then two days to fix it - after uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome for a clean install. Then there was the IPv6 issue... I (on purpose) disabled my IPv6 routing from netstat and netsh, and now I can never use IPv6 again, regardless of how many Windows 10 tips and tricks I try, I cannot get IPv6 to turn back on, my VPN hasn't worked since then, and I'm stuck publicly broadcasting everything I do over Spectrum - which is no bueno.
Now, I can either reset Windows 10 to factory settings AGAIN for the second time in the last 12 months, or I can get rid of this complete and utter pile of garbage and never look back. But I'd love to know that I'm not going to be pulling my hair out again because I apparently stupidly decided not to be able to afford a new video card when I replaced my last computer.
