2026-10-18 15:15 UTC
So yesterday I got my old refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad X13 and I was messing around with it.
It was an "Amazon Renewed" thing, so I figured it'd be pretty much ready to go when I got it. The first thing I did, though, was boot up Windows just to make sure it worked and stuff.
And wow.. Window Defender was *unhappy*. It started spewing errors about viruses.
Good lord.
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@bigzaphod@mastodon.social 2026-10-18 15:16
So I shut it off and made a USB installer stick for Windows from my Mac (which was surprisingly annoying to figure out) and then nuked it from orbit. So I got Windows on it. Then I made a Mint USB stick since I was going to try Mint Linux. That went okay and I got it partitioned and installed Mint, but the install process, while easier than I remember in the past, still seemed entirely too nerdy. But it worked anyway.
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@jwisser@wandering.shop 2026-10-18 15:17
@bigzaphod@mastodon.social A perfect machine to nuke with the Linux of your choice. 😅