Yeah, apparently they disable the ability to F8 in order to boot faster, though I haven't noticed a difference. I've been slowly trial-and-erroring trying to figure out which specific service is causing the infinite loading. I've narrowed it down to a handful of microsoft services (default services at that), but am at a loss as to why any of them would cause an infinite loading screen.
Honestly, I would have migrated back to linux ages ago if I didn't use my laptop for gaming. Wine works alright for some games, but not all, and especially a few I mod a bunch and that just makes my head hurt, since there are already like 3 different programs I use to mod with. Trying to get each working in wine, not to mention with steam and the games themselves... I tried to dual boot, but Toshiba seems to have some stuff hard coded for windows on this laptop, which makes it a nightmare. Sigh.
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Date: 2016-05-21 03:10 am (UTC)From:Honestly, I would have migrated back to linux ages ago if I didn't use my laptop for gaming. Wine works alright for some games, but not all, and especially a few I mod a bunch and that just makes my head hurt, since there are already like 3 different programs I use to mod with. Trying to get each working in wine, not to mention with steam and the games themselves... I tried to dual boot, but Toshiba seems to have some stuff hard coded for windows on this laptop, which makes it a nightmare. Sigh.