I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13

I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13 This month I sold my 2021 M1 Max Macbook Pro and bought a Framework 13 DIY Edition laptop. After I got everything setup I sat down to write about the experience. Some ~4500 words later I realized I needed to break my thoughts into multiple posts. See also: Framework 13 DIY Edition Hardware Thoughts Setting up my new Framework Laptop 13 DIY Edition with NixOS My new Framework 13 laptop just arrived. After I finally set everything up I started writing a post about the experience. I thought I'd write a little bit about my previous laptops, but a lot of fond memories I had forgotten about came flooding back. The tinkerings and many openings of laptops past. If you will indulge me, I've been feeling nostalgic. This is for the other laptop weirdos out there that that feel the same. I have a history of doing terrible acts to laptops The only image I could find of my NC10 was this blurry, 2021 flip phone photo of me removing the windows sticker. In 2008, I managed to get my hands on a Samsung NC10 Netbook in a fancy metallic blue color. [^ Back when netbooks where a thing circle 2007-2013] Prior to this I only had desktops. The specs were pretty humble ( from wikipedia ): A single core 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 Integrated Intel GMA 950 graphics 1 GB DDR2 RAM 10.2 inch 1024x600 screen and a VGA connector of all things. 83-key keyboard rather than the usual 87 or 88 keys on a laptop. A 160 GB HDD Something could be done about that though! You could upgrade the RAM to a powerful 2GB. You could replace the slow HDD with an SSD. You could add a touch screen . You could make a Hackintosh out of it if you replaced the wifi card. If you wanted to, you could do those things and I was a weirdo, so I did! I found a lot of fun in trying to get as much as I could out of that hardware. In fact I'd say the act of doing all that was far more enjoyable than actually using the laptop once the tinkering was done. After the novelty and slowness of a Hackintosh wore off I put Linux on the Netbook. I still sought the thrill of the hunt. I installed a lite weight distro CrunchBang [^ or just #!] and messed around. I read more about different minimalist distros and came across two others I could hop to: Arch and Gentoo. This feels like an inflection point in my life, I choose to try Arch since I wouldn't have to compile everything on a single core. [^ Who know what would have happened if I picked Gentoo. I might have a beard now.] The screen was small and I wanted to maximize its usefulness so I started trying tiling WMs. Why not XMonad...

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