My computer died !

[RollyShed]

I was a little curious: Given that you had 50 years of experience:
IBM's first PC was introduced on 12 August 1981; Apple -77. 1991

So you must have reasonably worked with mainframes then?

A couple of PDP-8s to keep going as well as a Data General of the same size. We doubled the memory on that, added another 16KB and bolted it to the wall with a cable going to the cabinet.
The PDP-8 was first introduced in 1965.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8

"Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms of the late 1960s. Their first product, 1969's Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer intended to both outperform and cost less than the equivalent from DEC, the 12-bit PDP-8."

The PDP-8s were on a Mass Spectrometer and an Xray Diffractometer and the Data General on an ESR.
To get a PDP-8 going you put in near a dozen binary instructions on the front panel switches and then it could read paper tape. Then another tape with the specific programme for that job.

The switches, 3 to a number i.e. a 7 would be all 3 switches ON. a 1 would be one switch ON. As each number was made up of 4 digits that meant 12 switches.

[Vilsen]

This looks interesting
Jan 15 11:55:21 mint kernel: [0.061288] Kernel command line:
BOOT_IMAGE = / casper / vmlinuz file = / cdrom / preseed / linuxmint.seed boot
= casper iso-scan / filename = noapic noacpi nosplash irqpoll nomodeset -

and shortly after
Jan 15 11:55:21 mint kernel: [0.061422] You have booted with nomodeset.

This means your GPU drivers are DISABLED

So maybe the thumb-boot runs without dedicated video driver
but with ancient bios (or generic vga) calls?

May be that no driver is available for linux and usb-c video.


So the question is: Is it IMPOSSIBLE to get a working installation
of Linux Mint MATE 20.3 to a
laptop that is modern with USB-C outputs = ASUS ZENBOOK UX490U.
and where the image / video to the EXTERNAL screen is shot off
from the PROKORD adapter with 4k output for that external monitor
via the only outputs on the laptop = USB-C?

[Moem]

Mod note: if you would prefer to continue in your new thread, I will lock this one. No need to have two open threads on the exact same topic.
The new thread is here.