On Thursday morning, After I was about to start curating on Hive, I checked my wallet and saw quite a bit of hive in there. At first, I thought “ am I getting some kind of hive torch?” and I wanted to know where that mysterious hive came from.
So, as the memo showed, it was from 
Then... this was my reaction!
I mean, Christmas is early 😃
Anyway, it’s been a while since I am saving up for my PC and also I desperately need a better laptop than the one I got last year.
In a day, when I tried to open plenty of tabs, my old laptop would crash. Sometimes when I curate a post with more than 12 images, it crashes too even though I installed lubuntu on it. Not to mention, when I do my paper and open hundreds of pages on doc, it often freezes. Sometimes, I even lost a huge chunk of texts because my laptop was stuck and I needed to reboot it forcefully. It also worked for simple programming using google cloud but for the kind of thing I do, it was still too slow. It really tested a lot of my patience. The laptop just wasn’t meant to do the kind of tasks that I am doing.
Earlier this month, I told a friend that I wanted to save up for a decent laptop. It took a while because many things happened, emergency expenses, and lots of things that needed to be repaired, and some funds went to my PC. Thankfully, with that stake payout really boosted and made me get the laptop faster.
I have been saving some recommendations since the moment I saved up for my laptop. So, it didn’t really take me long enough to decide which one I’ll get. These days, getting a decent laptop with a decent price is really difficult. Many entry level laptops are overpriced and it’s only using Intel Celeron and doesn’t really come with a decent graphic card.
Where I live, it is hard to find something decent for the kind of requirements that I want, which at least has a Core i3 at a price below 500$.The prices of laptops have gone up too due to some factors and also chip shortages that cause some brands to sell at a higher price. Well, long gone are the days of great laptops for a fair price.
Thankfully, I was able to secure an ASUS X441U laptop with a Core i3 6006U and 1 TB HDD. For now, it is a decent laptop to do the kind of tasks I need to do while saving up more to complete my PC. Thanks to hive I got to finally get this laptop to help me contribute to hive and also the communities I manage. I swear, it was a pain having to switch to accounts of communities that I manage and curate while the laptop freezes.
Like my other laptops, I always use Linux even though it comes with Windows installation. In this laptop, everything was decent and I even got to play a game on STEAM. But perhaps, I am just too inept for using Windows, so I decided to install Linux again this morning. I am finally happy when I get full sense control of my device and start configuring everything from the terminal. This is the point where I don’t understand when people say it’s difficult especially when they don’t play games. Linux is easy to use and very simple to maintain. That’s all for me and I am very grateful for it and happy too :)
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