So what do i need to put on a win10 machine first things first

[idiot]

Lenovo PCs ship with man-in-the-middle adware that breaks HTTPS connections...

yeah definitely reinstall on a lenovo machine

[nettle]

holy shit, would never have bought a lenovo if i knew that, thanks for letting me know!

@The_Blueberry_Hill

Is that SSD all there is? My Arch install is like ~9GB + home directory (depends what’s in there and what’s being shared between OSes) + swap if you need it.

yeah, iirc there’s room to install some kind of additional drive but they don’t need much space, and that was the-thing-that’s-wrong on this computer. thanks for the arch install size, i know it’ll vary but thats helpful.

If I understand the situation right though: do you want to be maintaining someone else’s Linux install?

it feels like it’ll be so much easier than maintaining the windows 10 side of things… just because i don’t understand windows at all, and at least i have a vague idea about linux… or at least arch.

@The_Blueberry_Hill

Dunno about the last one, but that doesn’t sound right?

i think mauve was having trouble with updates taking a long time, and i somehow expect the new install to be followed by all the updates since windows 10 was launched… hopefully the updates are included when i reinstall.

[The_Blueberry_Hill]

Oh right. I kinda forgot how it works when you don’t just install a recent version of an OS yourself. There’ve been some big updates, you’re probably right! Lots of anoying restarting.