Lynnesbian 
hopefully tomorrow i'll actually set up my new phone
it's been such an astronomical pain in the ass... it's my mum's old phone, and it's a samsung, and you know how they are about modifying your phone!
word of advice: don't ever buy a samsung phone
i had to download a 4.3GiB stock firmware image from a site that caps downloads to 120KiB/s
why in the fuck do you have to flash the massive stock firmware file to reset knox, why is knox tripped when you try to flash non-stock firmware without enabling non-OEM ROMs, why do you have to enable non-OEM ROMs why do you have to have owned the phone for seven days (or set the clock forward one week) to enable non-OEM ROMs, why can't you disable knox, why doesn't wiping the phone from recovery reset knox, why why whyyyyyy
literally all i had to do with my old phone, the one i'm currently using, is download lineageOS and TWRP (along with gapps and magisk and all that), flash TWRP, install lineage, and reboot
meanwhile with a laptop it's like
- put linux on USB
- boot USB
- install linux
i hate phones and i especially hate samsung phones
Ben Lubar (any pronouns)when I installed Linux on Urist, it was:
1. borrow USB stick from my dad
2. copy the first 100MB to disk on Australium
3. copy the 64MB ISO I had added my SSH public key to onto the USB Stick
4. plug the USB stick into Urist
5. boot
6. do the entire install process from my Chromebook
7. unplug the USB stick and put it back in Australium
8. put the first 100MB back onto the USB stick
@lynnesbian it was actually much smoother than any other OS install I've ever done once I figured out I needed a GPU in order to make the computer boot.
Most of those steps are just because I didn't have a USB stick I was willing to destroy the data on.