yeah, it was wild. I was trying to do set up some computer labs. Debian was the first suggestion in the guide:

After the second reinstall of Debian, I gave Fedora a try as it was the second to be suggested. Only to be greeted with this:

It took me forever to realize that dash-dot at the top left was not some stylization and was a button to show the overview.

funny you should say it like that. I just recently I tried using Debian’s default GNOME desktop and thought I had corrupted the install somehow. I reinstalled the OS two more times because it kept dumping me into a nearly blank screen with no obvious buttons to click aside network/sound/power.

I’m used to LXDE, KDE, and Cinnamon, so this was completely foreign to me… and trying to find the web browser had me at a caveman level of confusion.

Yup, 60W.

More than enough to power one or two drives but when 3+ were writing I’d have a random disconnect.

Tried different hubs, of increasing power. Same thing.

How do you keep it properly powered? When I tried something similar, some drives would randomly vanish because the peak power demand exceeded the supply of the hub.