I like the idea of putting a 🖕or 💩 over the logo, so I’m gonna steal it for if and when a US-made laptop flies to my doorstep.
I’ve had an ASUS convertible at one point a long time ago (probably 6 years ago now) that I wanted to put Linux on, but it was pretty terrible, but you’re right, I could give these a try again after a bit of research. I generally don’t mind a bit of degradation and am quite comfortable with tinkering with the system to get what I want, but was just burned enough to not try for a while and wait it out. But thank you for mentioning CatchyOS, which I’ve not heard of. I might give that a try. I would’ve just tried slapping plain Arch on it myself otherwise.
And yeah, I get that MFL just doesn’t have the market share to get the benefits of economies of scale. It’s disappointing, but a reality nonetheless.
I’ve heard good things about Catchy, if I get bored and start having the ol’ distro-hop itch I’ll probably spin it up on the DT. As I’ve not tried it yet, I can’t say one way or the other if it’s any good though. If you’re interested in an Arch based Distro, I can however strongly recommend Garuda. They’ve got more flavours than you can shake a flight-stick at. The documentation is expansive. The forums are highly active. And the Devs/mods are really on top of looking into issue posts. There’s been two times since I started using Garuda, about 3 years ago, where I had to make a post asking for clarification/help. The first time I had a response within 5mins, the second 45mins. And having looked through other issues posts that seems like the norm.
Dev/mod response time is, from what I’ve seen, within an hour or so.
The ASUS Armoury driver patches and LSK patches are distro-agnostic, so easily implemented regardless of what you decide to install, which is how it should be.
As a long time Linux user, and now having Linux as my only operating system for my personal devices. I really want to buy a MFL device, just to add to the numbers so the economy of scale numbers change a bit. I’m also broke AF…
I like the idea of putting a 🖕or 💩 over the logo, so I’m gonna steal it for if and when a US-made laptop flies to my doorstep.
I’ve had an ASUS convertible at one point a long time ago (probably 6 years ago now) that I wanted to put Linux on, but it was pretty terrible, but you’re right, I could give these a try again after a bit of research. I generally don’t mind a bit of degradation and am quite comfortable with tinkering with the system to get what I want, but was just burned enough to not try for a while and wait it out. But thank you for mentioning CatchyOS, which I’ve not heard of. I might give that a try. I would’ve just tried slapping plain Arch on it myself otherwise.
And yeah, I get that MFL just doesn’t have the market share to get the benefits of economies of scale. It’s disappointing, but a reality nonetheless.
I’ve heard good things about Catchy, if I get bored and start having the ol’ distro-hop itch I’ll probably spin it up on the DT. As I’ve not tried it yet, I can’t say one way or the other if it’s any good though. If you’re interested in an Arch based Distro, I can however strongly recommend Garuda. They’ve got more flavours than you can shake a flight-stick at. The documentation is expansive. The forums are highly active. And the Devs/mods are really on top of looking into issue posts. There’s been two times since I started using Garuda, about 3 years ago, where I had to make a post asking for clarification/help. The first time I had a response within 5mins, the second 45mins. And having looked through other issues posts that seems like the norm.
Dev/mod response time is, from what I’ve seen, within an hour or so.
The ASUS Armoury driver patches and LSK patches are distro-agnostic, so easily implemented regardless of what you decide to install, which is how it should be.
As a long time Linux user, and now having Linux as my only operating system for my personal devices. I really want to buy a MFL device, just to add to the numbers so the economy of scale numbers change a bit. I’m also broke AF…