And of course I’m installing Linux on it. Install went well, even the fingerprint sensor built in to the laptop works.

Mostly this will be a school and DND machine but always nice to have a functional laptop for whatever else I may need it for.

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    Gentoo is great. I can configure it exactly the way I want. I switched to it after redhat went enterprise and never looked back. Stage 1 install.

    However, sometimes packages get out of sync an I have build problems that need to be diagnosed.

    Sometimes some packages get deprecated & I have to redo my configuration.

    Deprecating python 2.7 was especially fun.

    Back in the day, manual config of x11 was needed and that was fun. Back in the redhat days, the x11 configuration was in multiple places which was confusing.

    Sound still is erratic after the laptop goes to sleep.

    I did a manual transition from X to Wayland and that took a bit of learning.

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      Neat, sounds like fun if you have the patience, time, and necessary knowledge to keep learning. 😊