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!
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.