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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).

I wanted to have another OS option, so I decided to install Linux Mint Cinnamon¹.

The install algorithm was something like this:

1. Download Mint .iso, and flash² image to drive
2. Reboot PC and press alot of F keys (as the B550m only shows the load screen for a second)
3. Boot from Mint
4. Remove Windows partition
5. ???
6. 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.

I might re-add Windows as an option for gaming. It would be cool if more people used OSS so they could modify it at their will.

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 ↩︎