basically the command line equivalent of opening the file explorer clicking on a blank spot on the screen and going why no folder open then dragging the screen around angrily.

She rather had been home with the kids than working constantly missing out on their lives.

The story of every female dev I've ever met; good field to find a husband in though so can't exactly fault them.

I'm not terribly familiar with the openbsd installer unfortunatly :(

generally for these sorts of issues the wifi's a culprit; I was on a phenon until just 2-3 years ago too and it was still pretty well supported. May be able to bypass the issue at least during install with a hard line if that's possible; may also be able to perform the operations on the install disk you mention by modifying; most install images are just a regular install pushed into a squashfs if you mount it on another system you may be able to fiddle with what you need, but that's getting into not worth it territory.

switch to gnu hurd, or bsd, you don't know enough yet to feel the difference, they have mostly the same userland.

maybe haiku

it's worth learning, plenty of office webshit uses it; it's basically java for people who don't have linux servers and buy microsoft everything and those guys are everywhere.

IE8 isn't dead, it lives on on internal corporate networks managed by assholes, who entirely deserve being billed through the nose to have any development done for them for it.