Fore and aft rigged ships sail into the wind pretty well, but square rigged ships were better outfitted for running with the trades. This design would probably do something similar, but yeah, next they'll invent masts and yardarms and booms, and then we'll be back to squabbling over trade routes in the Caribbean.

Unfortunately the friend is virtual, and I feel like we're not nearly close enough for me to ask them (an IT professional) to remote into my pc. Not that I'm concerned, but I don't like asking people to work on their off hours.

Take a backup? That involves a state of mind where needing a backup is a possibility.

3hrs later--Google search: how to back up Zorin, putting toothpaste in tubes. I mean they've done it once, how hard could it possibly be to do twice.

I did, to my minimal credit, do the modern nvidia drivers install, but the performance was pretty bad so I manually installed another driver, which looks to be the correct and latest, but now I can't install alternative nvidia drivers - attempting to do so gets an error message about being unable to delete a file that is already in the repository or some such. I'll c and v if I can't stumble through it in the hopes I don't have to reinstall, but honestly I don't have a lot of stuff to replace so few tears will be shed. Just got to figure out how to reinstall should it got that route.

Going to see if I have secure boot on, maybe that's the issue.

Thanks for the advice!

Dual booting as we speak!

Is there a difference between making a partition and dual booting? Like could you install for dual boot without creating a partition in the process?

Thanks Pango, I'll be installing Ubuntu this weekend on an old desktop to check it out risk free and avoid downtime on the primary desktop. I'll be back with updates and pleas for help.

Thanks for the heads up and the breakdown. I'd like to think I'm clever enough to avoid inputting what is a obviously nefarious command, but I don't think I've fully plumbed the depths of my foolishness.

Jerboa is decent. Probably take a while to get sync/relay/Apollo quality apps, but this is a good start. Definitely better than mobile.

That's heartening. Got a project for the weekend!

Just checked it out, It's an I5 6500, a little older than I thought, but ubuntu recommended specs are pretty low: CPU: 1 gigahertz or better RAM: 1 gigabyte or more Disk: a minimum of 2.5 gigabytes

no uefi so I'm good to go. probably

That's two votes for ubuntu. I like the idea of a virtual machine protecting me from myself. I've got desktop and a laptop, but need them both active. I've also got an old desktop in a closet somewhere, wonder if the hardware would still be functional enough to learn on. CPU is probably a 7th gen I5, to give you an idea of the datedness.

I subscribed to this instance specifically for the discussion of quality titanium products and now you're closing the magazine? Back to reddit I go.