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Episode: 3798
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Title: HPR3798: Laptop Second SSD MXLinux Install
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3798/hpr3798.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 05:29:20
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3798 for Wednesday, the 22nd of February 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Laptop 2nd S.S.D. with M.X. Linux Install.
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It is part of the series hardware upgrades.
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It is hosted by Mekatroniac and is about 12 minutes long.
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It carries an explicit flag.
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The summary is overcoming UEFI and Windows 10 to install M.X. Linux 21.3 on a 2021 ASUS laptop,
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2nd S.S.D. Drive.
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Greetings.
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This is Mekatroniac in this episode, I'm going to describe installing M.X. Linux on
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2nd Hard Drive on my laptop and my first impressions with this operating system.
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So I've tried a few other distros on this and for various reasons they didn't work out
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slack where it couldn't adjust the brightness and there's some other problem with it.
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It didn't have OBS installed, open broadcaster software, Zenn Floder 2 said it had and I got
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the biggest ISO on the site and I could find and did not have it on there for some reason.
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So fake news there, squirrel fake news, Dev1 also didn't see the Wi-Fi for that so one
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couldn't be used either but and both of those, like I had this problem with Grub.
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The slack where it didn't install Grub in the EFI, I guess there's the EFI partition
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in the Windows, I forgot to say I've been running Windows for the last year or so just because
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of convenience and inertia I suppose and I wanted to play my pirated copy of San Andreas.
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But anyway so yeah it's time to switch, like Windows is pretty annoying.
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The file system, sometimes you can't even find files that you know are in the directory
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that you're looking at, it's bizarre but I have too many files maybe.
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So yeah this EFI, not too fond of it, I understand that there was limitations to BIOS but
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why didn't they just make a better BIOS instead of this CRUD?
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Computers are really great now, I mean I really love this computer and then some MBA over
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at Intel decided to make it shitty with this EFI and what I mean is before you're able
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to just put another hard drive in, have two hard drives and choose which one you want
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to boot from but now the boot is controlled from this EFI partition which some people
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said was a attempt by Microsoft to make it so that non Microsoft operating systems couldn't
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be booted but apparently that's not true but yeah so that's definitely a security downgrade
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since obviously it's better to have a completely separate boot hard drive rather than have
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the boot be dependent on the other hard drive than you're using for your OS, I mean that's
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kind of stupid and I think there has been like a zero days found for you EFI as well so
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but yeah anything Intel puts out I view with suspicion nowadays so yeah windows annoying
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and of course free hardware, free software is good, you'll always have like open source
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software or FOS software if possible on all your systems except if it goes into your
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body then you should take every non free software they take tell you yet definitely so with
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MX Linux, okay so yeah still talking about you EFI so with Slackware when I installed
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that it made me make a startup USB and I had to use that startup USB every time and I wanted
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to booted to the second hard drive and like what the freaking hell so finally I did some
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reading up on grub so I was prepared I was going to actually install grub myself on that
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stinkin EFI partition but when I installed MX Linux I was almost disappointed because it did
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it automatically so unlike Slackware where it was like maybe I missed something on the install
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for Slackware to be fair but that was kind of disappointing to have to plug in a USB stick every
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time you want it to boot up so now it boots into grub immediately with MX Linux as the default
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selection so that's awesome so first impressions it's the XFCE desktop that I was using I'm not
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recording with it now I installed tenacity on that MX Linux install but it didn't appear to be
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working so you know I can't I can't give an opinion on that but everything else worked like right
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away and that was really impressed that the grub installed automatically so if you have a laptop
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you might want to do that but for other reasons spoilers it didn't go up well for other reasons
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you might not want to use this if you have a new laptop but it might work for you H top has it
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as 841 megabytes at idle which is kind of high but it has a lot of features so a lot of desktop
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enhancements and stuff. Conkey it's got a clip manager that shows a whole bunch of like you
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last you're last saved stuff last control Cs and seeing that it becomes apparent why they put
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the menu bar on the left hand side because you hit on clip man and it shows all this info
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and same with browsers it will show all your tabs as like meet little text things that you can
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click on that's pretty cool so it's it's kind of it's kind of slick it has I'm really fond of this
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it has a startup sound option to start a startup sound which is missing from most operating systems
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nowadays which is a travesty I think I think there should be a startup sound demo
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so there's yeah Conkey gives you the time and some stats like how much your hard drives being
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used and stuff the first wallpapers kind of this primary color really plain thing but they've
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got some really nice wallpapers if you go into the desktop settings nice manuals right on the
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desktop when you start so that's a really nice touch but a lot of distros you feel kind of on
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your own I mean yeah usually they'll have a link in the browser that comes with the system but
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it's nice having those PDFs right on the desktop for you so there's a big manual and there's
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FAQs boot up is like faster than Windows it also allows you to set the audio up to 150 percent
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which is nice because sometimes the video makers have low audio so that's useful I'm not
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usually just listening on these laptop speakers so you can't crank them too much so yeah turning
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turning up the audio is useful so a few cons including a deal breaker but maybe I'll be able to fix
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it I don't know the function button is lit after every boot and I noticed that slackwear did
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the same thing yeah I'll have this function button for the extra keys and Bluetooth is on
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after every boot after being turned off beforehand and slackwear did that as well
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so the USB keyboard and most randomly disconnect and that's the that's the catastrophe here
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because I would have tried to live with the other things but I cannot stand to use the laptop
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keyboard or trackpad it's just ridiculous it's really bad for you on ergonomic so yeah after a while
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it would just disconnect and you couldn't even plug it back in like just like the USB is dead
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D message didn't say anything which is bizarre so I think I need like a less hardware support or
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something I tried the advanced options in grub there's an option to use the 6.006 kernel
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that didn't work and then there's an option to use the 6.006 kernel with system D
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I forgot to mention MX Linux that's one of the criteria that I used to choose operating systems
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is they not have system D but MX has system D if you need it so I tried it with system D
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and it appeared to work but then after about an hour or so it disconnects the USB as well so it
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seems like I need an advanced hardware support version it's it's said on this laptop that it was
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ready for Ubuntu so I don't know but anyway it's a great computer if you haven't tried a new
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generation computer yet rise in of course it's an AMD rise in five and it's it just blows away
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anything I've ever had as computer not that I've been keeping up but this generation is so much
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ahead of what previous generations were to the generation before it seems like this just a big leap
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forward so yeah thanks to AMD and ASUS for that so yeah I'm gonna gonna have to I don't know if
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I'm gonna need to try to get like one of those rolling or release ones or something or
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because unfortunately Ubuntu uses system D which is sad because I really like Ubuntu Studio
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it has a lot of nice software including OBS and Ubuntu Studio is how I discovered Yo Shimi
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which I used for the keyboard effects and some of my other podcasts but yeah that's so that's
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how to install MX Linux I guess I skipped the part about using Belina Etcher to make the live USB
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and then booting from USB pressing F12 boot from USB to the live and then install from there
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and yeah like I said it worked really perfectly I was pretty impressed MX Linux looks like a really
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nice operating system and I would recommend it it's you can see why it's in the top and I haven't
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even talked about half of the features that it has like it's it's a system snapshot feature and
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all kinds of other little utilities that it has so it's a nice operating system check it out if
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you're distra hopping and haven't found anything good yet but see you next time
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