Nice

Yes.

Right now I’m documenting the fault and status of the device. I have heard that Asus sometimes “add” extra damage to the device so that they can claim it’s not covered under the warranty.

There’s no reason this should impact your warranty. But also your ASUS warranty is meaningless anyway. Unless you want your device held for a ransom

I currently have an issue with my device. The SD card reader is faulty. It was not working on Bazzite. I thought maybe it might work on Windows (but chances were low). I installed Window and saw the SD card reader was indeed fried.

Now if I submit my device with Bazzite to the Asus representative, they might say “different OS, we can’t help! hurr durr” and send me back. You can’t argue with these on-field agents. I took the safe way and replicated the problem on Windows.

I heard some technicians replace the MB, apply proper shielding, adjust the fan curves, during the repair process so that the issue does not repeat. I’m hoping for this outcome.

Most of the time, the package is available on the standard package manager which makes the process extremely simple. Hardest part is knowing the package name. If you know apt search, you don’t even have to search on the browser to find the package name. But certain packages are only available as tar.gz or as source. But those are usually not encountered by newbies.

If someone is using Nix, they generally don’t have trouble finding packages. Also, Nix has more packages compared to AUR.

How to install an application on Windows

• You hear about some application
• You google the application name
• You get a bunch of links
• You click the first one (and hope it’s valid and not hijacked by malware ads)
• You scan the webpage to find the correct download button (and hope it’s not an ad link)
• Download the application
• Double-click the application.exe
• Windows UAC pops up which you have to allow
• Install start and you click next, next, next (You hope the installer does not change your homepage or install some browser toolbar)
• Installation finished

Windows is so much easier /s

No wonder it was so laggy on Bazzite. So I should download the Windows version, I guess.

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