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As I was saying Monday, I am breaking up with Bill Gates' grandkids.
The Lounge
Bought this dirt cheap notebook with Win10. Decided to zap it and replace it with Ubuntu. (Mostly to avoid the all them farking uninvited updates. Secondly to feed the illusion that I am free. )
Anyway, last night I created a Ubuntu-bootable USB schtick and fired it all up. Erased the disc. The whole world and the Ubuntu installer was smiling at me, ensuring me that the installation was progressing at least as well as expected.
Please reboot to complete the Ubuntu installation.
Hooray, almost there. After reboot:
No bootable media found.
Yay! Half a victory, no more Windoze!! Worst case I have a cool mat for the tea kettle! 
To be continued.
[EDIT:]
There is more to the story. I was trying to create a cliffhanger!
The comp is dead. Long live the comp!
modified 8-Mar-17 5:28am.
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Secure boot and legacy options in bios?
It has been given me problems as well.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: legacy options
That's probably the guy.
FreeBSD allows you to create UEFI boot sticks, but it's more trouble than fixing the BIOS settings.
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Google is your friend "Acer cloudbook 11 ubuntu":
The gist is to go into the BIOS with F2 and move the USB drive up to the top boot priority. Then reboot and install Ubuntu 15.10 as normal from a USB stick. However on reboot the machine will fail to load Ubuntu because secure boot is enabled (ugh), but it's a simple matter of going back into the BIOS and flipping a few levers to confirm that the Ubuntu OS on the drive is what you want secure boot to use.
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If he's even a tiny bit like me he first tries doing it himself a dozen times. When all of his ideas are exhausted then he'll search.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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I would do it so too.
But in such cases (installing Linux on anything not a standard PC), I would check first online if there are drivers for all components (especially the important devices like WLAN). That research would also contain installation notes so that I would have been warned in advance about such problems 
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I do it too - too much experience beating Linux to death on non-standard equipment left me less than willing to do so again until absolutely necessary.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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So just to clarify....
Windows badly-timed reboots are driving you nuts....
So you went to Ubuntu? I totally hope that's an LTS release at least.
I'm not 100% sure what to call that flavor of crazy, but best of luck.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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I left VS2017 downloading the redist package, last night.
Come in this morning, and, well, first of all, I couldn't find it, without using "sort by date" -- I mean, who downloads stuff to the root of the system drive, these days? And who would look there, after the instructions said "Make sure that you run the command from your Download directory"?
OK, so I open the dir, expecting to see a nice, 5GB iso file, but instead find 20+GB in five-hundred-odd directories, 380 of which contain only one file, and 97, two (with directory names like: Microsoft.VisualStudio.OfficeDeveloperTools.MicrosoftIdentityExtensions.Msi,version=15.0.26208.0,chip=x64), with no indication on how to split them up into DVD-sized chunks (DVDs are still cheaper, harder to lose, and safer in transport than memory sticks).
Seriously?
Is that the way we do things, now?
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banana ware as ever ...
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Distributed computing. It's the latest fad.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I tried to find ISO image, too, and failed ...
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Hahaha ... a good one. Perhaps it is a good question for VS2017 team why is the ISO image published somewhere else on not on VS2017 webpage ...
Cheers,
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They're obviously not the International Organisation for Standardization in spelling.
International Organisation for Standardization = IOS!
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ISO Website wrote: Because 'International Organization for Standardization' would have different acronyms in different languages (IOS in English, OIN in French for Organisation internationale de normalisation), our founders decided to give it the short form ISO. ISO is derived from the Greek isos, meaning equal. Whatever the country, whatever the language, we are always ISO.
So it's not actually an acronym, it's a nickname!
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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If they're anything like their name implies, a more suitable nickname would begin with "n", end with "s", and have a "z" in the middle.
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New uSoft philosophy; If you can't dazzle them with brains baffle them with bullshit.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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I cannot leave this issue alone.
Check this out. While DiscoFiles (see Win10 : Examination of Disk Utilization (Includes DiscoFiles utility)[^] ) was running the following file was created by the winstore??
Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\winstore_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Cache\0\0-Namespace-https∺∯∯next-services.apps.microsoft.com∯browse∯6.3.9600-0∯788∯en-us∯c∯US∯Namespace∯pc∯00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000∯00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000-.dat
What is microsoft & win10 doing to us? 
Anything they want, apparently. 
This is a continuation of : The Lounge - Win10 File System & long names[^]
modified 7-Mar-17 14:45pm.
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Looks perfectly acceptable to me; apart from the small spelling mistake. 
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Me, I'm on the edge of my seat, wondering what kind of wondrous glories a file named 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000-.dat might contain!
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000000000!
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Are those... Elvish characters...?
I think that filename literally translates to:
One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,<br />
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
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