2023 Year of the linux laptop
12/18/2022
So a while back I decided to make the switch on my personal laptop from windows 11 which was driving me crazy to Ubuntu 22.x. Since doing so I haven't looked back and today I set up RClone to sync my dropbox, onedrive, and s3 buckets. The next order of business was to get ClamAV going. I haven't fully uninstalled windows 11, since It's a paid version, it's still sitting on a smaller hard drive on this laptop, and whenever I want to use it I have to flip some bios settings and reenter my bitlocker key which is a pain. While going full linux at work would be difficult because of how much I use native desktop Excel, for personal use I haven't had any major issues. Because Dell supports up to Ubuntu 20 I was even able to get the finder print reader working on Linux. This was the only native feature that didn't work upon install.
So a while back I decided to make the switch on my personal laptop from windows 11 which was driving me crazy to Ubuntu 22.x. Since doing so I haven't looked back and today I set up RClone to sync my dropbox, onedrive, and s3 buckets. The next order of business was to get ClamAV going. I haven't fully uninstalled windows 11, since It's a paid version, it's still sitting on a smaller hard drive on this laptop, and whenever I want to use it I have to flip some bios settings and reenter my bitlocker key which is a pain. While going full linux at work would be difficult because of how much I use native desktop Excel, for personal use I haven't had any major issues. Because Dell supports up to Ubuntu 20 I was even able to get the finder print reader working on Linux. This was the only native feature that didn't work upon install.