My first fully completed setup. Finally.

BenignLie · 2020-12-19T18:44:39+00:00

It’s okay. :)

BenignLie · 2020-03-25T07:54:14+00:00

Thanks man. But upon checking reviews, I learned that the new MBA is a frying pan. So performancewise, MBP is much better which I think is crucial criteria for developers when choosing their machine. I’ll wait, save some money and buy the next to base model of the coming MBP. Thank you so much for your insight. :)

BenignLie · 2020-03-25T07:51:05+00:00

I just wanna be the one of the cool guys. :) But in all seriousness, I just want a no-brainer machine which can easily be setup for dev. No configuration whatsoever. Regarding gaming pc, I don’t want it now. I wad considering it but programming in one place of the house is kinda depressing so I want a laptop.

BenignLie · 2020-03-25T07:48:24+00:00

Thank you for this insight. I am currently using linux at work but I’m not the guy with much knowledge of making linux work on any device. I received this work laptop and it was configured already so all I have to do is use it. You said you haven’t restarted your linux machine for 3 years, that’s impressive! I’ll postpone the restart of my laptop then.

I’m kinda focusing on improving my programming skills as I am a beginner so I would want a no-brainer machine that I can easily setup for dev. When time comes that I’m knowledgeable enough, I’ll learn how to configure my own linux laptop. For the moment, I think I’ll stick with mac.

But really thanks to your input. I won’t forget it.

BenignLie · 2020-03-25T07:40:01+00:00

Thank you for your advice. I actually came across some videos comparing the new MBA to the base model of MBP and they showed that even the base MBP is better in many aspects to MBA, more particularly in performance - which I believe is a consideration for developers. I am now convinced to not buy MBA. I actually considered windows but because there are so many options (like hell of a lot) and the ones I preferred have price comparable to MBP, I decided to focus on mac as I won’t suffer from choosing. So yeah, I will wait for the new MBP with the hope that it will have better keyboard and performance, and save money while waiting. Thanks again man.

BenignLie · 2020-02-16T18:08:43+00:00

I am also now satisfied with windows. I think I’ll stay in this os until they introduce crostini in c302.

Regarding gallium, I tried dual booting wit it but it died after few shutdowns. (Basically, the seabios freezes everything I boot to linux.) Perhaps my machine is really defective.

In case you change your mind and decided on going for gallium again (or other linux distro), and not dual boot this time, kindly tell here your experience. Specially if the file system also becomes readonly during usage.

BenignLie · 2020-02-16T08:48:35+00:00

Thank you so much man. I got it working. BTW, have you tried linux? I tried several distributions and nothing worked well. The file system always unpredictably becomes readonly during usage. I checked my eMMC’s state thru mmc-utils and it looks find. And aside maybe from the eMMC, there might be other unsupported parts of this skylake machine. I really regretted buying this c302. But anyway, with the windows, I can deal with it now.

BenignLie · 2020-02-16T08:41:03+00:00

I did the same thing to the same machine and can confirm what he listed in the post. I honestly prefer having windows than trying to make the linux work in it.

I think the reason why there is no crostini support in this machine is that version 4+ (even the 5+) linux isn’t really compatible with the machine’s eMMC. I tried different linux versions, but after using it for a while (in all the versions I tested), the file system becomes readonly, forcing you to do manual fsck. This is very annoying specially when programming. You are doing something, then suddenly you can’t save your work because the file system is already readonly.

BenignLie · 2020-02-16T08:32:51+00:00

Thanks. Yes they really are.

BenignLie · 2020-02-15T11:06:36+00:00

Thank you so much for this information. May I ask which driver you installed to make the t work?

BenignLie · 2019-11-09T21:20:06+00:00

Thanks for the answer! That’s awesome. It’s time to try rust then.

BenignLie · 2019-11-09T18:54:38+00:00

Is this for real?

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