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Recently I purchased a CyberPower PC (Ryzen 5 5500, RTX 4060 8GB) to play games, and run AI work loads (images, LLMs).

Unfortunately there was alot of Windows bloatware on it which made me feel sad, so I decided to install Linux Mint Cinnamon¹ on it.

The install algorithm was something like this:

1. Download Mint .iso
2. Flash² image to drive
3. Reboot PC and press alot of F keys (as the B550m only shows the load screen for a second)
4. Boot from Mint
5. Wipe Windows out
6. ???
7. Profit

It’s nice to see the source code³ of the software. I was surprised to see that 41% was written in JavaScript. For example here’s the code for the clock applet.

It would be cool if the world used more FOSS.

Update: I added Windows 11 back due to reliability/crashing issues of running inference and VRAM bottlenecks. And also for gaming 🤣.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/16l9ufr/what_linux_distro_should_i_pick/ ↩︎
2. https://etcher.balena.io/ ↩︎
3. https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon ↩︎