My levels of annoyance were so great they propelled me back in time to get a few more years to removed about it.
I think you're right about getting someone to install Windows being easier. Was there a specific site that you remember being helpful? Or particularly bad?
Right now it's gathering dust on a shelf so it's not getting any less usable no matter what happens to it. I found a site with some info about installing Linux on ROG, but was immediately over my head, which is why I'm asking you fine folks for help.
That's exactly what it was, needing to make a Windows account to use my own damned system.
Holy crap, thank you!!!

Resources for the technically challenged?
I have an ASUS ROG that came with Windows 12 11 pre-installed. I tried using it once and it pissed me off so bad I haven't opened the laptop again. I want to switch to a Linux distro that's compatible with it but need the process explained like you would to Grandma trying to bank online. Are there any resources that break it WAY down? Like, starting just after turning the computer on (I've got that down already).
Edit to say: it has been pointed out that Windows 12 does not, in fact, exist and I may or may not be posting this from the future.
"Arse mezzanine" is a phrase I didn't know I needed in my life
Perishable books?
I had a visceral reaction to this. If you've heard this in real life, my deepest sympathies.
He's old, it takes him a minute to catch up
We shouldn't have let her back in the country after her visit with Trumplestiltskin
We had to give up entirely on affording a house. There are ROOMS for rent at $1200 here. This used to be a low COL area until COVID. We had low infection rates so a ton of people moved here and we don't have the infrastructure to support them. We've been priced out of what living space we did have and since there's still the illusion it's cheap to live here, it's almost impossible to get a living wage.
I still use my 2010 Vaio. If they still made them, it's definitely what I would have gone for when I upgraded.
I want to see the Bates Model B in action
Maple-washing bastards.
Fuck, really? I don't care about the Chronically Horrid, but I have (soon to be 'had') a Saltwire subscription.
According to an email from CSCB as of 1530 Eastern time, he's pausing tariffs on anything CUSMA eligible for Canada and Mexico until April 2nd.
Sour grapes
That is true, but a lot of natural dyes require toxic chemicals to make them permanent.
Acute toxins fact sheet, guide to identifying snipe flies, several issues of Computer Gaming World from 1987, and 2 separate copies of the schematics for a Kenmore 148-1937.1 sewing machine.
That's pretty fucking irresponsible