I’m in the same thought process as you. I was sure ryzen had ECC support all the way back with gen 1 which was an awesome feature compared to the way Intel is doing it. I also remember it was up to the motherboard vendor to build in support ?
I’m pretty sure they have a 32bit variant.
Sadly this is how I feel too.
Fellow Michigander here. I’m located towards Flint in Mount Morris and I can agree that public transportation is a joke. Where I live it isn’t as feasible either, as there is more rural homes.
I always like running Lubuntu on stuff like this. I have a netbook running an older Atom CPU and 2GB of DDr2. It runs very well on Lubuntu.
Most laptops that ship with windows 10 are capable of running 11. I recommend finding out if the schools provides a license. When I was attending Phoenix online a couple years ago they supplied me with a windows 10 education license through Microsoft.