GuyNamedBrad

yeah I guessed so, but thanks anyway for clarifying. Kinda sucks but at least it's easy to mirror it.

I can vouch for them, used them to replace a nexus 6p battery I was skeptical as well. But they did a good job no complaints.

Looks like that machine is actually one of the oldest devices to support that feature. That being said it does require the machine to have a EFI Firmware update to be applied. But who knows maybe it has been already.
 
Reference: 
EFI update for MacBook Pro 15 and 17 Inch: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1492?locale=en_CA
Computers that can be upgraded to use OS X Internet Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202313

Yes, nothing ever works 100% the way you expect it too.

That is not your OS to begin with.
You don't have the right to complain.
Buy a real mac.

Try this may or may not work in your scenario
 
1) create or open this conf file:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/zz-nvidia-modeset.conf
 
2) add the following line:
options nvidia_drm modeset=1 3) update your initramfs
sudo update-initramfs -u 4) reboot
 
Side note: are you using proprietary driver from under the additional drivers under settings?
 
 

I like heavier distros simply because of support. I do a lot of work on my pc I need something with a lot of support but I also don't personally enjoy using Windows.
 
Honestly if its not fixed its miles better Thank you I think It's fixed.

First check your WIndows 10 power management settings.
The minimum CPU power needs to be set to 5% or lower and the maximum needs to be set to 100%.
 
What often happens with Ryzen 2000 chips in Windows 10, is that both CPU power options (min and max) are set to 100%.
This means that cores can't clock low enough for the other cores to turbo up.
 
It's in German, but you get the point:

Its a desktop, HP Pavilion

I am currently in the process of building her a tower but im trying to get this running for now until i can get everything together.

The thing is, Ive legitimately downloaded every version of windows 7 on the website. Bradmonster ive even used Rufus usb creation tool and to no prevail.

Currently I am on Linux and Rufus doesn't work on Solus for me, even with Wine. I'll try Yumi. How would I change the format of the driive?
Edit: I tried turning off secure boot and turned on legacy support. Now it's detected, but when I boot into it, it just shows some text, then the lenovo logo, and then boots into Linux again. 
Edit 2: I am reflashing it onto the same drive using WoeUSB. I will boot up again and report back with results.

You may need to enter the BIOS and change the ram speed profile. This can be done under the XMP profiles.

You may need to enter the BIOS and change the ram speed profile. This can be done under the XMP profiles.

mine says windows is activated with a digital license ( i bought it online and they sent me a key)  ill give it a shot when the board get here. 

I can only log in with my company domain. nothing else will work. onlything i can do is remove the pc from the domain and sign in as the original user account i set up .. THEN i might be able to. 

i do have the original key,  but  i dont see anyway to link it to a MS account.  i guess ill have to call it in

ok thanks!

In theory (I have not tested) as long as the external drive is a Mac OS External (Journal-ed) file system format it should be auto mounted at the time of the back up, and automatically be backed up. There are options to exclude specific folders etc if needed. 

I can't believe they are just finding this now, especially if they say it's been infecting machines since 10.10.
 
I would definitely think it's in the works of being patched or has already been patched, there is an article out and I'm sure they don't want this getting more traction.

No offense but I hardly think Microsoft should ever be used as an example for good security. Don't get me wrong it's not terrible but go attend a conference like Def-Con and tell me what you think of there security..
 
IMO Apple still has better security than Windows, and will for the foreseeable future. You can look up a good amount of Malware/Virus's for OS X but you will literally find hundreds upon thousands for Windows.
 
Don't forget about the security wholes windows put into place or the onces that can be found in the Wiki-Leaks files/ Vault 7.

That's where your wrong... Apples are definitely worth the time. I work in IT and a ton of my Financial and Medical clients use OS X systems. A hacker could gain a ton more from user like that then 100 Windows users, and the OS X system is locked down tight compared to Windows. There are tons of Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware applications for OS X, they don't offer one out of the box which yes is generally risky but like I said they have a completely locked down App Store. The only thing that makes them insecure is the end user, who downloads a ton of shit.

Microsoft Windows is way less secure than MacOS.

Most viruses are written with a .exe executable file to be run by the unsuspecting user.
 
Linux does not use the .exe format to execute programs, therefore it's practically immune to that kind of malware.
 
However malware designed to run on Linux will definitely infect a Linux system if the user is not aware of it.

VI(m).
 
I deal with dozens of client's running a lot of different variances of *nix for their servers. the ONLY thing consistent accross Linux, AIX, BSD, etc, is VI.