THE LIVEWIDTH TECH SUPPORT HOTLINE
Jun. 5th, 2012 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
HEY INTERNET
Any recommendations for sassy computers? I've been saving up, and now I have money, but I don't know what to do now because every single computer I look at has both ZOMG AMAZING! and IT'S FUCKING BROKEN reviews. I've been thinking about building one, because I can follow directions pretty well, but so much effort, SO MUCH. I'm kind of tempted to just buy a Thinkpad, because they're beautiful tanks (currently salivating over reviews of the T520), but idk how often I'd be using it out and about. Added consumer anxiety: the whole UEFI kerfuffle, which is like a ticking time bomb of HURR DURR IF YOU WAIT TOO LONG YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO USE AN OS THAT MAKES SENSE TO YOU. Looking at screenshots of Win8 reminds me of that time I installed Ubuntu and it took me five minutes to find the terminal. (And having spent months distro hopping, I am basically married to Crunchbang for the performing of basic tasks - dual boot is good, Debian Stable can't into Java and I am horribly addicted to Minecraft, but I'm not cool with fighting against an OS designed for passive consumption, both practically and in principle.)
What was I saying? Right, okay, tell me about your shiny new computer and why I should buy it.
Any recommendations for sassy computers? I've been saving up, and now I have money, but I don't know what to do now because every single computer I look at has both ZOMG AMAZING! and IT'S FUCKING BROKEN reviews. I've been thinking about building one, because I can follow directions pretty well, but so much effort, SO MUCH. I'm kind of tempted to just buy a Thinkpad, because they're beautiful tanks (currently salivating over reviews of the T520), but idk how often I'd be using it out and about. Added consumer anxiety: the whole UEFI kerfuffle, which is like a ticking time bomb of HURR DURR IF YOU WAIT TOO LONG YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO USE AN OS THAT MAKES SENSE TO YOU. Looking at screenshots of Win8 reminds me of that time I installed Ubuntu and it took me five minutes to find the terminal. (And having spent months distro hopping, I am basically married to Crunchbang for the performing of basic tasks - dual boot is good, Debian Stable can't into Java and I am horribly addicted to Minecraft, but I'm not cool with fighting against an OS designed for passive consumption, both practically and in principle.)
What was I saying? Right, okay, tell me about your shiny new computer and why I should buy it.