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  DATE : 2019.04.29
  TIME : 19:27
AUTHOR : SNOWCRASH@SDF.ORG
  MOOD : RELAXED
 TITLE : ELEMENTARYOS
 
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My home machine is a Surface Book that I bought a few years ago
with ideas that I would use the detachable table all the time, and
that I would game with old 940M nvidia card on occassion. Turns
out, I almost never use the tablet as a tablet and my gaming days
have slowly sputtered out.

What this leaves me with an a 4:3 aspect ratio, 3000x2000
resolution oddball that actually works pretty well. For a long
time I have run it dual boot with Ubuntu 18.XX and Windows 10. I
am not one of those Windows haters, it doesn't crash and I like
the Office suite. But most of my time is spent on the ubuntu side.

And all was well until recently when I went off the rails and
did some non-standard installs. I was farting around trying to do
something for work, and while my system was still stable, the dist
upgrade process was inexplicitly broken. Likely cause I was told
by the system was a ppa, so I went through various attempts to
fix, but eventually reached a point where I was just like, "Fuck
It", let's install something new.

Thus began my distribution rabbit hole. For some reason I found
myself interested in installing a BSD based system.  OpenBSD
looked interesting, secure, "Just works" can do mentality, but
like most BSD's installs a lot of hand holding and after install
tweaking. This isn't a slam on BSD, just a reality. Reading about
having to copy firmware drivers to a separate USB to get wifi
back up and running after the install took my back a decade. It
shouldn't be that hard.

I began to have serious thoughts about how OpenBSD would work with
this oddball of a system. Would it choke and die on the HiDPI
resolution? Dual boot looked to be a challenge as well. I'm all
for fun, but being left with a nuked system in need of terminal
repair wasn't a great thought.

In the end I decided to try something utterly safe and boring. I
downloaded the Juno ElementaryOS and did a replacement of my
Ubuntu for essentially a currated Ubuntu skinned OS. And I have
to admit that it looks and feels nice and seems less bloated than
what I had based on boot times.

I think I'll keep OpenBSD in the back of my mind.  Anyway, that's
what I have been up to.


-Snowcrash