A huge THANK YOU to every person who have ever written a straightforward "plain English" solution to a #Linux problem. You're my hero!
Left: The "Current Features" was a bunch of gibberish and I couldn't tell if this would solve my "I can't copy and paste/drag and drop files between my host machine and the VM" problem. Right: "You need spice-vdagent. Here is why and how."
Left: This is a lot. I just need to watch a YouTube tutorial. Right: "Just change to the Flatpak version of Firefox."
But then my computer started flickering/freezing (always while I'm using Flathub Firefox, but honestly I'm rarely using anything else) so I googled how to pull logs (journalctl, apparently?) and posted in the forums.
My #Framework 1 month review: it's still amazing! 💖
(Honestly, the worst thing about it is the touchpad. You'll never be able to comfortably click-and-drag, so you'd better get comfortable with double-tap-and-drag or buy a mouse!)
And the people in the community forum are nice and helpful, and when my keyboard completely failed earlier this week, I was able to quickly look up the solution (take out all the expansion cards and put them back in; don't ask me why 😂) and fix it myself!
I also successfully created/restored a backup with my new 2TB SSD, so I’ll spend this month working on a more advanced/automated setup with it (e.g. Timeshift).
EDIT: Officially gave up on #VMware 😂 Converting .vmdk to .qcow2 with qemu-img on Fedora 38 didn't quite work, and I eventually hit the "unable to install all modules" error with the GCC/kernel headers issue on Fedora 39. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87859
@seanbala Thank you so much! I’m happy with it, but more in the sense that I have something new to learn all the time 😂
My big goal was (is!) to learn Linux on an environmentally friendly machine, so my choices were to buy 1) refurbished, or 2) brand-new = Framework (because it seems more flexible than System76).
The huge advantage that I have is that my personal computer can have hardware failures for weeks and I’ll be okay because I have my work computer. So without this, it might be risky.
@agnes Thanks for the feedback. I've been thinking of doing dual boot with it. I'm pretty tied into Microsoft stuff at the moment - but they are doing a good job of turning me off with AI stuff.
I'm interested FW for the environment and because I wanted to try Linux but refurbished computers felt like a real roll of the dice. And so many new laptops lack basic ports.
I haven't looked at the forums - are your issues pretty common or do you think you might have had bad luck with your machine?
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