Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per StatCounter, driven by privacy concerns, rising costs of Windows/macOS, and user-friendly distros like Ubuntu. Community celebrates amid gaming and enterprise boosts, though challenges like software gaps persist; analysts eye 7% by 2027.
My grandma’s pc was bricked. It goes straight to bios (and beeps) and does not boot up automatically. Haven’t been able to fix it yet (it boots if I press alt on startup though). Anyway, I’ve nuked windows and installed linux mint. My grandma only uses it for browsing and printing stuff. The laptop is now at least 10x faster than it used to be.
If anyone knows what the problem is with the the bios please tell me.
put a new CMOS battery in it and it should solve this issue.
reset and update the bios while you are at it.
Yeah that’s my current suspicion. I hate opening up laptops though usually end up breaking some plastic bits
cheap plastic and planned obsolescence 🥳 🎉
really ought to be illegal to make expensive electronics that can’t be taken apart. waterproofing was a trojan horse!
it was always bullshit. back when they were pushing unopenable phones, we had plenty of examples to point to of repairable waterproof phones.
you probably already googled the beep code, but if not, try doing so.
Can you boot into a live USB lime systemrescue?
Yeah already did that and installed Linux Mint. Also ran the bios repair tool