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Thu Jul 26 02:46:13 EDT 2018 | |
Tadah. I finally installed Debian 9 with Xfce4. | |
Everything is noticeably smooth and faster, | |
compared to Winlag 10. I initially tried installing | |
Debian testing, but it seems there was a problem | |
with the build (something about lvm modules not being loaded). | |
No matter, not having the latest packages from apt repository | |
shouldn't be much of a problem. | |
The things I did have a bit of trouble with were: | |
(1) Booting linux | |
(2) Wireless card driver | |
As for (1), the first thing I tried was .exe installer | |
from from disc image. It didn't work, so I went with the | |
usual route: booting from a flashdrive. The thing with | |
these recent windows laptops is that they don't show | |
the POST/BIOS info when I boot them up. | |
Funny I need to shift-click restart from windows, then select | |
some shit menu item so I could just get to the BIOS setup. | |
Gladly I altered some settings so I could open the BIOS setup | |
by pressing F10, and also selecting boot device by F9. | |
Oh yeah, Prior to that, I also did disable fastboot on windows, as well | |
as secure boot from BIOS. Wew. | |
Then after after a successful debian installation, I rebooted | |
but I didn't see a grub menu so the fuck I said, but F9-ing | |
from boot, I actually could select debian partition | |
and finally boot linux/debian/gnu!?!?! Double wew. | |
For (2), I actually assumed it was using an intel wireless card | |
because it's was using intel core, so I installed firmware-iwlwifi. | |
But nope, I've read at least three debian wiki about wifi and wireless. | |
lsmod, lscpi, dmesg... none of these $DEROGATORY__IST_WORD could find | |
my shit wireless card. I resigned for the day and went back to windows | |
to watch weaboo toons. As a side note, Hanebado was actually fun to watch. | |
While on windows, I checked what the model name of my wireless, and it was | |
actually Realtek rtl8723DE. Figures. The following day, | |
I first googled the model name, and I saw github repo. | |
I installed firmware-realtek, because I'd rather not build from source. | |
But still nope. I went back to debian wikis for answers, some package specifically. | |
I depmod'ed and rebooted several, hoping I just missed a step. Nothing. | |
I went with the source building instead. Build failed. | |
I found a forum, pointing a different repository. Build successful, | |
but dmesg reports failing to load a (wrong) wireless module. | |
Sunnabvakvetch installed the wrong module... | |
I aptremoved the fucker out of system. | |
I went back to the original repo, and _actually_ read | |
the error messages. Missing bc and headers. | |
For bc, I just apt install bc | |
For the missing linux header, it was actually because | |
the kernel version is incompatible. | |
I checked out the branch 4.9-down, and build successful. | |
I rebooted and finally, finally, be able to connect | |
wirelessly. | |
Fri Jul 27 06:31:37 EDT 2018 | |
Well, for today I tried getting into my | |
ideal fullstack environment with typescript/express | |
with server-side rendering, and as well code-sharing | |
between client and server. I get didn't far. The thing | |
I had trouble most with was the guddarn modules. | |
Typescript couldn't damn find it's modules even | |
it's right front of its typed ass. | |
I resigned to using starter projects, but | |
I ended up with a fatigue because of indecisiveness | |
with all the choices I have. This is a | |
shallow rabbit hole that spans a two continents. | |
I'll try again after reading a bit about modules | |
for node and typescript. | |
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