I am perfectly comfortable saying that I’m not that bright, or that I tend to be oblivious or dense. Every accomplishment that I had in my life came from the hard work I put in and not exactly from my own intellect. I don’t believe that I’m completely hopeless, but sometimes it does take me a while longer to “get things” compared to others around me, and that’s perfectly fine as long as I get things done by the end of the day and I keep trying things even if I’m not the best at them. However, occasionally I do have experiences that truly test if I am just that dumb, or if the subject manner is somehow presented dumber than I am, and trying to get Linux working on my laptop is one of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most of my experience with Linux was from using WSL 2 with Ubuntu. I felt more comfortable with using command lines from school and work, and I had a great experience developing with the MacBook Pro that my work gave to me. I had my own irritation with using Windows, and I wanted something new and fresh, so I splurged over $1000 on a 12th gen intel laptop from Framework. Framework is a company that sells repairable and upgradable laptops, and I was happy to buy a laptop from them to support a company that tried to make their hardware last as long as possible and reduce e-waste. They had an option to build the laptop yourself with no OS included so that you can bring your own, which I decided to use a desktop Linux distro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After all of the parts came in, I assembled the laptop and used an old USB drive to install a Linux distro after I flashed one onto it. I have flashed, installed, and reinstalled Fedora, Mint, Manjaro, and now Ubuntu onto the drive, and every time I do there is a new error that pops up that makes the device unusable. After one or two, I can admit that I might have messed up somewhere in the process, but four is a pattern. It might just be me being paranoid about my own shortcomings, but I get suspicious when something goes wrong this many times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m planning on talking to Framework customer support about it, and I’ve heard pretty good things about it, so I’m not too worried about that. I’m sure that as long as I keep trying and ask for help from the right people, I’ll be able to get it fixed up. I think it’s good to have a humble attitude and that it’s easy to be wrong about a certain topic, especially with a field advancing as fast as the tech sector. Hopefully, by the next time I’m writing a new blog post, I can be writing on my Framework Laptop running something Debian or Arch based.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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