So, interestingly the slack where live cd current version does boot up off a usb stick no problem. It still has the issue with extremely low sound volume that I've had with other distros. Kernel is 6.10.11

It is actually an hp specter 360 and interestingly I'm able to run virtually every kind of Linux I can find, the problem is the overwhelming majority of them the Broadwell sound card does not work at all or is extremely low volume and I have wasted hours trying to fix that. For some reason the slack ...

Okay I actually copied and pasted the commands to make sure they were all correct. When I rebooted with the generic kernel I get the errors: atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xd7 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e057 <keycode>' to make it known. atkbd ...

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Code: Select all sudo slapt-get -u to not update the system to install everything. Just want to test if system boots. (and then update the system) Done and rebooted. sudo slapt-get -i --reinstall grub Done sudo slapt-get -i install-upgrade-kernel-ext-usb-gtk Done run again from menus System ...

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OK, reinstalled, booted up fine, twice, should I try the instructions above again? To be clear... the updating instructions.

My external drive is a Sabrent SATA II to USB drive, that's what I'm installing to. (My internal drive is a Samsung SSD).
OK, I'll remove partitions, reinstall, boot and report back.

OK, first, I have reinstalled with EXT4 instead of BTRFS - It finally hit me that compression (BTRFS) would not help if I was using encryption, and I'm going to have to use encryption at some point for files & email, even if it ends up being Veracrypt. Following the instructions above all went well ...

I added Vivaldi browser via Gslapt but it does not show up in any menu - is there a way to add it to the menu, or force a menu regeneration?
EDIT: Showed up in internet menu after a complete shut down and reboot... but won't start. ??