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[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 06:57, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
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> So you don't go for the latest fad either? ;)

:-)

To be honest, I wish I hadn't upgraded my main laptop from 16.04 to
18.04 last year. It got slower, ran hotter, and I got GNOME which I
don't want.

Now 20.04 beckons... :-/

> You're absolutely right.  Embarrassingly it would be a first time for me.
> One of the issues I just don't think about.

Most people don't, and to be honest, if everything is working fine,
don't bother.

But as examples... When I got my previous workstation at the office,
it did not boot by PXE over the network correctly. I did some
troubleshooting and in desperation I updated the BIOS. It went from
version 1.0 to version 19, booted off the network fine, and it took
nearly 3 minutes off the time it spent in POST. Big win, for free.

I was given an old Thinkpad X61t laptop/tablet convertible last year.
It only has 2GB of RAM and I don't have any DDR2 SO-DIMMs. It ran
Vista and Ubuntu 12, very slowly, and I didn't have the passwords.

So I put CloudReady on it. This is a free version of Google ChromeOS
for ordinary PCs.

It would not complete boot. I tried a lot of things.

So I upgraded the BIOS, it booted and installed without any problem,
and now it runs CloudReady surprisingly well.

When Linux exhibits odd, hard-to-troubleshoot problems, like odd boot
failures, upgrade failures with new kernels, power management issues,
ports that are detected properly but don't work quite right, things
that are not correctly detected... I always recommend a firmware
upgrade. I find it often helps.

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