This will just be a little tiny update, mostly about computer stuff. So for those that don't know, which is the vast majority of you because I haven't written about it yet, my main driver for basic productivity and work has been an HP elitebook from a couple years back that I got on Ebay for fairly cheap. Although I've enjoyed the premium feel of an all aluminum body, the limitations of windows 11 have been nearly unbearable. I tried installing various linux distros on here, but the BIOS that HP kindly included on their motherboard just refuses to consistently work on any other OS but windows 10 and 11. I would get failures to boot, boot looping, gui issues, inability to reenter the bios after trying various flavors of debian, and I ultimately just gave up and tried to make do with windows. I hate it so much, just every little thing is harder to do than I would like, and its so difficult to just maintain my usual workflow. Although I have windows 10 on my gaming desktop for convenience (as I have an nvidia gpu), using windows for productivity when I'm used to Ubuntu/other debian-based flavors of linux, it is just unbearable. So, I've decided I'm gonna give this laptop to my sister-in-law, and get myself an old macbook air to install linux on. Another little weird thing that I'm adding after I've already posted this is the windows taskbar on 11. It sucks. You can't change the position of it, which I prefer it being either on the top or on the left personally, so the fact that I just can't do that is exceptionally frustrating. Even worse though, it feels like the actual animations on the start menu are half that of my refresh rate, which like, feels SO BAD. I'm not sure if this is a universal problem with windows 11, or just this particular system, but I HATE.
Because of all this, I bought the 2015 11 inch macbook air, and I plan on putting Ubuntu on it, which yeah I know, haha Ubuntu bad, but its what I'm used to, and I really like it, its just comfy for me. Although I've tired all sorts of distros, I generally find myself coming back to Ubuntu, or I make my distro look and feel just like Ubuntu anyway. In any event, from what I've read the wifi chips on macbooks generally have issues with out-of-box drivers on linux, so I anticipate needing to fuck around with the wifi to get it working, but that sounds SO MUCH easier than the numerous problems that kept popping up with the elitebook that I'm typing this on right now. So I'm excited!!
That's all for now, much love to all who read :)
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