I had a very used laptop that was collecting dust. Honestly, I'd probably still be using it as my main laptop but a lot of things were going wrong for my old ASUS but I wanted to do something BRAVE with it before she went off to the digital playground in the sky.
Firstly, my ASUS is old.
Secondly, about a year ago I had accidentally spilled some coffee on the keyboard. I tried to dry it quickly but I have a feeling the dark brew probably covered up some important elements. After 48 hours off any power source, it began typing crazy and mysterious things on it's own - rarely letting me get a word in!
Thirdly, the battery completely died well over a year ago which means that if it's not plugged in then it shuts down. There's no pretty shut down mode; no taking its time to close programs. It's just OFF.
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The last few days I've been going through the files, moving important pictures and files to a flash drive and made the decision to reformat the hard drive. But I wanted to take it a step further. I wanted to break away from Windows and installed UBUNTU instead.
Why not?
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If something was to go horribly wrong, then my old ASUS can be retired to a drawer or parted out. No big deal.
Once I created a bootable flash drive, I began my UBUNTU installation. I wasn't going to try having a dual boot installation. I went all in.
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Ta Da!
Wait... is that a... beaver?
please tell me there's an off-color inside joke about this desktop screen!
Installation was surprisingly easy and I quickly learned to navigate the desktop to find pre-installed apps. That's when I saw it... The lion. The BRAVE lion. This is what I was after!
I remember reading about the Brave browers; how it's open-sourced with built in micropayments to my favorite sites. And then I saw a cool thing about becoming a verified publisher and thought again, WHY NOT?
Let's see how deep this rabbit hole really is.
Whatever are you doing on this Wednesday?
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