What do you want to do with the laptop?
If it's just to browse the web Linux is an easy install.
Best to try a live CD first, then install from that if it's what you need.
Linux Mint or an Ubuntu flavor are pretty popular.
>why should i trust this source?
Lin Wood's reputation.
Lin Wood says that he has 40 years of experience listening to witnesses and that he finds this particular informant's information credible. Think it was 5 days of questioning.
Just answering the question. I have no real opinion, other than I don't trust @johntoheretohelp from reading his twitter stuff.
Talk is @johnheretohelp is a person named Ryan Dark White, from Maryland, I think.
Download the Linux Mint iso and use Rufus (free / windows) to burn it to a USB stick, then boot the laptop from the USB. Could burn a CD, too, though.
Once the laptop is booted into Mint, there will be an icon on the desktop that will install Mint on the hard drive. It wipes the drive, first, so save anything you need externally if you need it. Bookmarks, for example.
I'm with you on being skeptical.
I believe, not sure, that the interviewer is someone who does it professionally. It wasn't just Lin Wood showing up at someone's house, rather done more in line with law enforcement procedure.
Like I said, I don't necessarily look at @johnheretohelp stuff, but I do Lin Wood. Kind of on the fence, about this interview, because I think Lin is one of the good guys, and Lin thinks it legit.
Lin is in your face about calling out Pence and Rosenstein for treason, among, putting it mildly, other things, and, being a defamation case lawyer, knows the risks.
Looks like the machine itself has the actual count. USB drive in the machine could potentially be programmed from off site to change, in this case, flip, the scanner results before the final results are printed out.
Add to that, the laptops have SQL studio management suite installed, which can be used to do the same manipulation of the data inside the scanner if someone wanted to check the machine totals, as in an audit.
Tech guy is saying the SQL management suite shouldn't be there.
Only way to get an accurate count is to physically review the ballots, as in AZ.
Also interesting, Liz Willis said that she has zoom meetings with her canvassers that are knocking on doors asking about voting in 2020. Canvassrs don't ask who the person voted for, rather if there were any anomalies, such as receiving more than one ballot.
Liz Willis said 52% report anomalies.
More importantly, 9 out of 10 of those being canvassed are supportive and ask what took so long.