I just spent three hours trying to update the firmware on my Dell dock from a Linux environment. Solution: quietly weep, revert to Windows (for a few minutes to run the .exe from Windows boot disk).
Before anyone starts trying to troubleshoot it, yes, I tried all the things in fwupdmgr. Even went so far as to install snap because Dell’s Linux tool required it, and that failed as well.
How ro ruin any joke.
Concatenate all the stereotypes you had sitting around since the 1990s.
Quietly giggle.
Return to binging the Benny Hill Show.
The problem is obvious:
you learned Java
Just buy linux computer instead of flashing regular PC with linux
Brb just going to pop over to best buy and look at their offerings of Linux powered machines
Slimbook is ok
You really shouldn’t be shopping at Best Buy anyway…
Support your local frame.work
My father has a fw 16" per my suggestion, and I want to get one as well, but they don’t offer financing and are fucking expensive. Like shit the bed, last time I looked the diy version was like $2,300 for the upgraded amd cpu and gpu but with no ram, storage… I’m not made of money 😫
But the joke is that normies have no idea what Linux is and even less of a clue about where to get machines that are made for it.
I got my own RAM and storage and skipped the GPU
Preorders for the FW12 just went up at a little under $800, but yeah computers (especially good ones) aren’t cheap :p
you could always buy a decade old $150 thinkpad and put arch on it, provided you also have programming socks and a blahaj ;p
but yeah I get it, I think the op comment wasn’t really thinking about the “Normie’s” when writing their comment, and tbf without people braving the gamble that used to be putting Linux on windows hardware, we probably wouldn’t have options like the framework or tuxedo today
Harvey Norman has the option to sort their computers by Operating System
Is the only difference is Home has an Office Suite? And Pro has extra support?
Maybe this is outdated information but I remember Home used to limit the amount of RAM it was allowed to use :)
Pro has hyper-v, rdp server, and a bunch of extra mmc snapins like local group policy management. There’s no reason to ever use home.
wouldn’t work from a virtual machine?
Is that even possible?
depends on the device, but i have a VM just for this purpose. the device passes through to the VM and i update the firmware from there.
There’s FreeDos too, you just throw the exe on there and boot to it and run the exe via the dos prompt. I know Linux should let you too.
You forgot step 2! Quietly weep
Beatles: While my backup gently weeps…
oh, that is the cartoonist from Exploding Kittens. I’ll add that to my bookmarks.
That makes me feel so old lol
