The right tools make all the difference. Obvious enough statement to make. For example, imagine being lost in the forest. Having a knife would allow you to peel bark to make cordage, you could make fire starter tools. You could sharpen sticks to spear fish with.
I've tried using fine grit sandpaper to create a smooth finish in wood. After hours of work I still hadn't achieved the finish I was after. I later bought buffer wheels and was able to get a mirror finish within minutes.
Sometimes the right tools aren't tools, they're people. I had to try rebuilding my laptop with the latest Linux Mint. It froze as expected. I used some of the techniques I had dug up online to get into the OS in nomodeset ... mode? I then was able to install Fluxbox. As long as I use Flux my laptop doesn't freeze. Well unless a dialog pops up or I try rebooting. Basically the OS is very unstable on my machine.
After fighting the freeze further I decided it was time to ask around. The linux channel on Freenode tried to help. Everyone there was great, but it was an issue no one online at the time had encountered. There was someone else, I should have gone to him first, but I didn't think to ask until tonight.
I consider @DorianDotSlash
a friend though I only know him via Twitter. So I reached out to him and explained what I was dealing with. In minutes he responded with a solution to try. A GRUB config change I hadn't seen yet. I gave it a try and it was exactly what I needed to do!
I am finally able to run the latest Nix distros on my MSI!
Thanks so much Dorian!
Check out his video feed here.
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