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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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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
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.