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Slimbook Executive, long-term usage report 9
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Once again, I don't have too many good things to report. Really annoying. Now, this really has little to do with the machine itself. But the experience is indicative of what one might get if they choose to run Linux on their hardware. In this case, the victim is the lovely Slimbook Executive. What makes the findings extra annoying is that my Titan (another Slimbook) has sorted itself out, despite the fact it runs an Nvidia card. But this machine, with the stock Intel HD graphics, suffers from a bunch of nonsense issues. If anything, it ought to be the other way around, due to the relative complexity of the drivers involved.
Indeed, my problems seem to fall into two buckets. Hardware, messed up by firmware issues for quite a while now. Software, which has nothing to do with the underlying metal and plastic. I mean, how hard it is to print in 2025? Why would this ever be an issue, especially since it WORKED fine? This is disheartening, and makes me look an idiot. I go around preaching Linux (moderately, but still), and then, awfully silly things like these completely knock the wind out of me proverbial sail.
This is why I decided to upgrade the Exec's Kubuntu 22.04 to 24.04. It's been a while, the new LTS has matured, so I expect, hopefully, better hardware support and no worse software support. That shall be the primary topic of our next Executive endeavor, the tenth report. Stay tuned.