Destroyed, never to be seen again.

Well maybe virtualbox could be spun out first.

They do own a big part of the secondary market. For steam marketplace, they get a cut of those sales too.

More like far less profitable over years, but far more this quarter. And when it inevitably goes south because you’re squeezing too hard? Who cares, on to the next company!

When you said “training program” it made me think Portal style. Like the new exec gets hired or promoted and wakes up in an Aperture facility voiced by Gabe.

System76, Framework, even Dell officially supports Ubuntu in limited cases.

I’d just try a couple different distros and see which one has the fewest issues for you. If you like, you can pay for official support from Dell or Canonical. If you do identify an issue in a supported scenario (Ubuntu version + device model) they will actually help you troubleshoot and resolve the issue. RHEL is the same if you want to pay a bit more.

I have the N3. Works great, no issues cooling.

It looks like the problem with the N4 would be the clearance between the CPU and the case. You’d have to have a very low profile flat cooler, or a blower fan (noisy).

I’d check the specs and verify the actual dimensions of what you can use, and whether that would be sufficient for your use case. Remember that you also need room between the fan and case for air to actually move through.

Actually I just looked again and the top of the case is perforated, so maybe that won’t be an issue? It will restrict airflow of course, but it shouldn’t be that much of a problem.

Yeah that might be it. Sddm is a display manager, you might be using it for your login screen.

You might be able to work around it by just setting the service to restart automatically, so that it comes up properly once a display is attached. But if you can, I would try reproducing it on a fresh and fully updated install, and open a bug report to the maintainers if you can. Linux developers generally try to make really sure their programs don’t crash like that.

Boot log/kernel/dmesg, X/Wayland/kde primarily. Been a long time since I’ve had to troubleshoot something like this so I don’t know the new kids on the block. Maybe upstart or dracut? Whatever manages the boot process now

That seems strange. What’s in the log?

So what does it have to do with Linux?

Yup. Personally now that I’m an adult and have Responsibilities, I spend less time playing games. I hardly even follow new games coming out, and just work on recommendations from friends, or stuff from developers whose games I’ve enjoyed in the past.

Why remove them? If they look good enough to buy, do it, and get around to the others eventually.

Boot live media, mount the drive, copy it off.