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My #FrameworkLaptop arrived! (A few days before it was scheduled to!)
I apparently ordered the "DIY" version, which I'd forgotten, but the DIY part was just sliding in the SSD and RAM, and was trivially easy.
For a laptop this thing is an absolute DREAM!
Installing #Windows turned out to require a Windows machine (mine's broken; that's why I bought this one!) and a USB key, but turns out my son had both conveniently to hand).
All going great so far! Hid #Edge away and installed #Chrome, now updating various "drivers".
Extremely funny to see "c:\Windows\system32" in the header of the little shell the drivers installs pop up.
More like System64, amIrite?
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#FrameworkLaptop doings are going well; driver bundle installed great and keyboard and touchpad are behaving.
#SecondLife (well, the #Firestorm viewer) worked fine in a quick test, two-monitor support seamless, plugging in the Ethernet works. WoW is downloading at like 12MB/s, so we'll be able to test that eventually. :)
The "WhatsApp" "App" for "Windows" seems to have crashed hard enough that I can't run it again, but really that's #Windows for ya.
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Now #Wow is working!
Coulda sworn all those #DragonAspects became mortal an expansion or two ago. But here they are again! I expect I'll eventually stumble on the relevant #lore...
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Good Zod, it must have been forever since I played #WoW. Or they've just completely rejiggered the interface with this expansion. What's all this, then? XD
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zomg I hadn't realized how much I missed the keyboard backlight! Look at the keys being lit up!
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I see no one has fixed the old familiar "launching #WoW has no apparent effect, but does lead to a whole shedload of running #Windows Battle.net tasks" situation.
Nice that some things never change.