The future of shipping is ammonia. It has, pretty much, all the attributes of fossil fuels but being NH4 it doesn't produce an earth warming byproduct.
I recently had the experience of wiping windows of an Asus laptop I bought and the process was trickier than usual. It turns out that the 'USB Image Writer' that comes with linux and that you use to create a USB drive with the linux of your choice is no longer up to the task. The bios of the laptop would not allow the USB to boot up unless I created the USB with an entirely different software, in my case I used the balenaEtcher software (I believe other software will work too) to create the USB and only then would the USB boot up and allow me to wipe and reconfigure the partitions on the 'hard drive' (which in this case was an SSD).
It took me an extra couple of hours to get this to finally work. At this point I'm not sure if it's only the new Asus bios that are doing this unfriendly thing or if it's an industry trend.
I have a LG Smart TV that I use as a dumb TV that's driven by a Asus pn51 "palm of our hand" computer running Linux Mint. Finally a Logitech MX Ergo 'thumb ball bluetooth mouse' allows me to sit on the sofa across the living room and happily browse the internet, watch movies, youtube and almost anything else you can think off. (All the details here are just in case someone else would like to do something similar, this could be a starting point.)
Yes, that's for the legacy students (now pushing 50%) who can well afford it. The gifted students get a subsidy so they can afford to attend and everyone is happy, almost.
My recollection is that gparted wouldn't allow me to adjust any partitions until I loosened up the available space in the system partition. I guess gparted checks all the partitions to make sure everything is as it should be before it allows changes.
All households run on the edicts of Communism. "From each according to their ability; to each according to their need".
Unfortunately, it doesn't scale.
I ran into a similar situation not long ago on the system partition of a linux installation. The partition was too small to begin with and as new updates piled up there was almost no space left to start deleting stuff. It took me about half an hour to find a subdirectory with a tiny bit of stuff that could be deleted. It was like being in a room so plugged up with junk that you couldn't open the (inward swinging) door to let yourself out.
From the tiny beginning I started being able to delete bigger and bigger spaces until finally it was clear and then of course I resized the partition so that wouldn't happen again. The End.