February 20, 2008 at 00:23Notebooks, Linux and [censored]
Not so long ago, I decided that I needed a laptop. And once decided - it means not a sin to fulfill. Having estimated his purchasing power, he made a credit card, took a couple of home orders in order to quickly cover the loan and started the elections. The elections lasted a long time - half a week, during which the brain, even in dreams, slipped pictures of laptops into dreams. I can’t say that it was very nice, but nonetheless.
As a result, the laptop was purchased. As one of my admins admirers put it, “shit shit is a normal workhorse” (exact quote). In general, I agree with him. When choosing, the task was to get a laptop, which over the next couple of years would allow myself to feel comfortable with a web developer, which I, kind of, am. Accordingly, when choosing it, the main emphasis was placed on build quality / price.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that I originally wanted a laptop with a matte screen, pragmatism outweighed and I bought a laptop with a glossy screen. I think I’ll scold myself more than once about this - I remember how I didn’t like watching films at 5 pm 4 years ago, when the sun shone directly on the CRT monitor. I'm afraid that here I will have similar problems. I
look forward to sunny days in order to check :) In the evenings, after work, I have been trying for almost a week to configure and realize the capabilities of my new laptop. The main problem, as is usually the case with laptops, wifi does not start. Along the way, I caught myself thinking that I want to be able to control the speed of rotation of the cooler. Having spent two nights on this, but not having achieved the result, I put it off for the future.
Now I am thinking - but should I rebuild the kernel from a freshly placed system? Despite the fact that I put debian there, not gentoo, I think it can benefit the runtime and overall performance. I don’t know, however, why I might need performance on a laptop, but if you can get it, then why not try?
In conclusion. I want to bring the main idea of this post to the public. There are people (like me) that like to dig into the glands of a piece of iron. Optimize, configure, make non-working hardware work, raise dead software, etc. It seems to me that for this you need to have a special upbringing, a special mentality ... * nix - the systems respond quite tightly to castings of people like me. For us, this is not hard work, but rest. Despite the fact that it takes a week to fully raise the system, and not a couple of hours, it brings satisfaction.
:)
UPD:It’s not the point that you can buy some kind of laptop, put some kind of OS on it, so that “everything works except for something right out of the box”. I just tried to express my feelings from seeing the world in the context of picking with software and hardware, which is called for fun.
As a result, the laptop was purchased. As one of my admins admirers put it, “shit shit is a normal workhorse” (exact quote). In general, I agree with him. When choosing, the task was to get a laptop, which over the next couple of years would allow myself to feel comfortable with a web developer, which I, kind of, am. Accordingly, when choosing it, the main emphasis was placed on build quality / price.
Unfortunately, despite the fact that I originally wanted a laptop with a matte screen, pragmatism outweighed and I bought a laptop with a glossy screen. I think I’ll scold myself more than once about this - I remember how I didn’t like watching films at 5 pm 4 years ago, when the sun shone directly on the CRT monitor. I'm afraid that here I will have similar problems. I
look forward to sunny days in order to check :) In the evenings, after work, I have been trying for almost a week to configure and realize the capabilities of my new laptop. The main problem, as is usually the case with laptops, wifi does not start. Along the way, I caught myself thinking that I want to be able to control the speed of rotation of the cooler. Having spent two nights on this, but not having achieved the result, I put it off for the future.
Now I am thinking - but should I rebuild the kernel from a freshly placed system? Despite the fact that I put debian there, not gentoo, I think it can benefit the runtime and overall performance. I don’t know, however, why I might need performance on a laptop, but if you can get it, then why not try?
In conclusion. I want to bring the main idea of this post to the public. There are people (like me) that like to dig into the glands of a piece of iron. Optimize, configure, make non-working hardware work, raise dead software, etc. It seems to me that for this you need to have a special upbringing, a special mentality ... * nix - the systems respond quite tightly to castings of people like me. For us, this is not hard work, but rest. Despite the fact that it takes a week to fully raise the system, and not a couple of hours, it brings satisfaction.
:)
UPD:It’s not the point that you can buy some kind of laptop, put some kind of OS on it, so that “everything works except for something right out of the box”. I just tried to express my feelings from seeing the world in the context of picking with software and hardware, which is called for fun.