Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)

When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they’re supposed to do?

HP laptops–at least business-grade ones–are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

It’s easy to explain: it’s raw, unadulterated primate tribalism.

Multiple studies have shown how tribal psychology overrides pesky things like logic or coherent, and it’s terrifying how much people will excuse or rationalize in order to remain in good standing with their tribe.

Demagogues know this very well, as one of the first things they do is force their followers to hold contradictory principles as a kind of shibboleth. It softens their followers up for what’s to come.

His “public criticism” amounted to being fascist apologist and handwaving away the fact that Fox et al can make up news whole cloth and radicalize the electorate, but it’s somehow NPR’S fault.

Sorry, that was supposed to be a pun on “fork”, in release-management sense of the word.

Stick a fork in it, it’s done.

Ah, didn’t know that. I haven’t done a new install–just upgrades–on a laptop since either Squeeze or Jessie.

Did you use the Debian edition of Mint? Debian doesn’t include a lot of proprietary drivers and/or firmware blobs with its standard edition.

I can’t say that’s the case here, but it’s possible that Mint is either using Debian as a base, or at least following the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

There’s usually a nonfree firmware deb you can use, post installation. If you can complete the install and connect to the internet via the 7480’s Ethernet port, you should be able to get the wifi card working.