Josh Hansen @me@joshhansen.tech

Hacker-poet. Learn Something cofounder & CTO. Creator of Seattle Poetry Meetup. To me everything is craft; everything is creativity.

Jack of all trades, but master of some. Typescript, Rust, Kotlin, Python—collector of programming languages since age 11. Deep neural networks, reinforcement learning, AI if you must....

Project concepts and progress; kind-hearted smackdowns; quesadilla technique if you're lucky.

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https://github.com/joshhansen

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/hansen-josh

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The last few days I've been focused on putting a Linux distribution on a dog-slow Windows 10 laptop I'm responsible for. (8GB RAM was not enough, it seemed to be constantly swapping to its agonizingly slow magnetic disk drive...)

First, I put Fedora SilverBlue 37 on it, in hopes the immutability would pay off in providing a hard-to-destroy environment for some less tech savvy users. But getting the Broadcom drivers to work required some finagling, which made me think upgrades (every 6 months in Fedora-land) would get messy.

I want to set this thing up and forget about it with the expectation that non-expert users can keep it updated indefinitely. SilverBlue probably isn't it, but it was fun to try, and it did demonstrate that a GNOME 3 desktop runs much better on the HP than Windows 10 did.

So I've found myself back in the world of Debian, Ubuntu, and friends. Linux Mint is the current favorite: Windows-esque, with an LTS support horizon that extends out to 2027, two years after Windows 10's. By 2027, the machine will be someone else's problem. It's not booting as quickly as I expected so... might need to work on that. But otherwise, it seems promising.

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