Can't get Windows 10 to install on the new PC. It keeps whinging on about "missing drivers" or some nonsense. (despite the usb, and other meaningful things *clearly* working) I tried serving up motherboard drivers on a platter, but no luck so far.
Anywhoo lots of others have the same problem, none of the proposed "solutions" work. 🙃
Considering installing some flavor of BSD or linux at this point. 🙄
@lopsigon mb you could try arch linux 😉
@SunCat * get pulled with futile protests into the starch linux frying pan *
@lopsigon Yeah, it’s a real lemon of an OS. Even brand-new PCs in the shop have trouble running it. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh07qAVhbXu/
@jackyan Hahhh...
It took a day or so, but I finally got W10 to install... or so I thought... because it dropped me at the login screen without the create-user step... so there I was, staring at "defaultuser0" and an unsolvable password box.
Ran the install again.
Somehow worked that time.
The "create an online Microsoft account" part was wild. They go through a lot of effort to discourage you in making a normal user account.
Now the ads in the start menu...
We paid for this?
@lopsigon Well done—that’s real persistence. Sometimes I ignore the password box (blank) and it might let you in. I was stubborn and found a way to not create the MS account, though I can’t remember how—it was a random stumble. You also need to turn off a lot of the “send your data to Microsoft” settings.
The ads suck, eventually you tune them out because of their sheer irrelevance. The ad tiles can be shifted lower and you can populate the visible part of the menu with useful ones instead.
@lopsigon If your hardware is compatible, BSD is a great choice.