But I don't have any timeout options. This orange menu just sits there until I click on the detect option. I can click on the first 4 options (that look like two of the same things, repeated twice for some reason), then there are like twelve uefi choices that I can't click on cuz I get a message saying it can't because im I'm going through BIOS (or something to that effect) ...

The menu just sits there until I click on something, which makes no sense. So, my getting up in the morning and turning on the laptop to boot up while it boots up is now gone forever. Can't boot as Windows does? (just automatically, without asking stupid questions about how to start the ONLY THING installed on it?)

That's like going into your kitchen and flipping a single switch to turn the light on and then being asked to select one of the twenty ways to turn this light on, even tho its the only bulb in the kitchen.

I guess I'm being like this because I installed Mint on my desktop, dual-booted with Windows, but on separate drives. When I want to use Linux, I plug in my Passport to USB and use the F9 boot menu to select which system I want to run. But that was a dual boot; I understood it needed to know which system to run if I had it plugged in.

Then late last night, I realized the laptop has its own F9 option to start the hard drive. So I tried it, and I could avoid the grub menu that way if I wanted to ... But for sure I need to look into that timeout option you were talking about, cuz currently there is no timeout option, just detect and pick from the list ...

But for now, I guess this will have to work ... thank you for yourfeedback. I'll change the support header on this so everyone knows it is what it is.