compilation would take several hours but it was a learning experience.

the first time i put gentoo on a g3 imac back in 2004; it took 3 days to compile everything and the computer got so hot that it warmed up the entire room like a space heater. lol

that was the last time i contributed; i created a LCARS port and now there are hundreds of them everywhere.

the last time i tried doing something similar was with a plasma 1080i tv (yes that long ago) connected via hdmi to component adapter and i eventually learned that the nvidia driver will overwrite everything in favor of it’s own detection method, thus ignoring the custom edid i provided; perhaps the ati driver your using does something similar?

i would have tried switching to one of the open source drivers but the tv died and it’s replacement had hdmi ports and the problem went away

i’ve done this a couple times w sata and pata drives and it works; there’s lots to clean up to do, but it works.

i’ve had to use netapp ontap’s freebsd and solaris 9 & 10 professionally and going to canada is exactly how it felt; one is vancouver (compared to california) and the other was new foundland.

git rebase doesn’t work?

i’m assuming that command line means bash; in which case jq and regex are your friends.

i’m glad to know that tuxedo computers is doing it and now i know where my next purchase is going to be.

that’s why i started buying from linux only companies only; it removes that headache automatically.

my most recent purchase came from kfocus. i cared mostly about price, screen brightness, speaker quality and future proofing, so the macbook air was the price & spec combo benchmark to meet (future proofing is automatic with linux companies) and kfocus’s 14-inch blew them out of the water (they don’t anymore). the other companies wouldn’t share information on brightness and speakers at the time i was shopping for a new laptop almost a year ago; but all are built on top of either tongfang or clevo base systems (for now) so future proofing is roughly the same everywhere with linux companies.

in the past i used system76 and tuxedo (tuxedo sponsored that video); i will buy from them again when it’s time for a high end system. their low end systems are REALLY low, but the price tags for them are closer to midrange somehow; their low end laptops costed the same as the kfocus but with much weaker & missing specs. (i assumed that they didn’t share the missing specs because they were too weak).

at first i was baffled by the people reporting that they couldn’t get gpu and wifi to work; but them i remembered that my experience with those 2 made switch to buying from linux-only companies so long ago that i forgot that most people buy windows-only hardware to try linux on.

i have linux privilege. lol

if the lab users aren’t adults; i would go with an immutable distro

The 1:1 windows:Linux replacement is just a means to keep you on Windows. Once you learn Linux, you’ll come to understand how much of a farce it is and how it’s designed to keep you away

It doesn’t make a lot of sense to support these alternatives given the absolute shock difference in cost. $300 bucks for a used T series gets you a lot from a customizability, repairability, and reliability standpoint.

1. bios updates leaves you at the mercy of the manufacturer;
2. not every bios and distro works w lenovo’s bios update utility;
3. and your battery life & performance has a big dependency on your bios so using something that it’s not designed to handle (eg anything that’s not windows) will result in less than optimal results. 3.5) same goes for hardware eg nvidia