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new hardware woes ^¥^

~wolfinthewoods

so

i bought this

asus vivobook

a month and a half ago

barely have had time

to screw with it

tried for weeks to

install linux

kept encountering issues

didn't have time to

do the deep dive

to troubleshoot

turns out it's

something about ahci

stupidly fucked with the bios

to try and change

from rst to ahci

windows won't start

tried every which way to fix it

nope

windows is fucked

so i just wiped it and

installed mx linux

guess i'll be driving linux

primarily now

fine by me,

except i did want to

play disco elysium dammit

i haven't had a new(er)

(this asus is ~4 years old)

laptop in YEARS

was always able to do

a quick dual boot

no problem

windows REALLY didn't want

to share the sdd i guess

frustrating that something so simple

in the past

turns out to be

a pain in the ass now

oh well

end of rant

back to the land of foss

guess i'll have to

install win eventually somehow

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tffb

I toyed with the idea of a netbook not long ago, and I like many that are (still) available, but with that (small form factor) means it's generally an ARM chipset, which means no x86 architecture, which means less options in terms of...many things. Though Intel netbooks exist, so there's hope :)

I am considering a lightweight distro as well. mx I haven't looked at yet, but have heard of it. I was using xfce desktop on Raspbian back when, and I got very used to it. Now I am spoiled by Deb12/GNOME.

Better to cut the cord with Windows sooner than later - that OS (and co) is going all-in with AI and every privacy invading practice thats ever been put under the sun. It's your choice of course

hope you're doing ok wolf

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wolfinthewoods

definitely

i didn't really want to

use win at all

just figured i'd keep it

just in case something didn't run

but you're right

better to just be done with it

and work around any hiccups

i do like gnome too

nixos default was gnome and it was slick

i'm digging the new xfce

(new to me at least)

the last time i used xfce

was a decade ago

on puppy linux

here's a pic

of mx in action

i'm really happy with it:

https://postimg.cc/wRD5CTg9

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tffb

nice!

and that's a sleek widget in upper right, what is it?

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wolfinthewoods

it's the default

desktop widget

for the clock

and battery charge

i don't usually go for them

but i actually

liked it enough

i just kept it

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tffb

idk if gnome has widgets, maybe it does. i need to check

looks cool

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detritus

You know, I've had a great deal of problems installing linux, from bootloader problems, to kernel panics, to init system issues, missing drivers, X not loading for whatever reason, and everything in between.

One problem I never ever had

was trying to keep a windows partition.

The very first time I had a computer of my own, I wiped the hard drive, and never

ever

looked back. Not a day has passed that I missed Windows.

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wolfinthewoods

yeah

i did that

a few months ago

with nixos

felt good

really the only reason

i wanted to dual boot this time

was so i didn't have

to worry about

some games not running

eh, oh well

it looks like using proton

through steam

works pretty well

i'll figure it out in any case

i'm liking mx linux a lot

i was going

to go back to nixos

still might eventually

but mx is pretty cozy

hell

just not running win

feels good

i just wanted it

just in case

but i will admit

i was getting fed up with it

especially since all i wanted

was to use linux

guess i should have just

went straight to

wiping the drive

this is nice actually

still setting things up

it's been much more

seamless

than banging my head

against the wall

trying to dual boot

hooray for linux again!

edit: funnily enough the touchpad

works much better on mx then win10

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