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Finally nuked my Linux install. Where to go next.
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Indeed, I thought they were the baseline, so I was surprised to see them end. I'm happy that I was able to take advantage when I did and saved a little money
Those prices will return, particularly when the new models come out. But, by then, we'll want the new models at the discounted prices.
And, if you're willing to go used, they'll be even less.
My M1 Max Studio is selling for about $700 used these days. So about a 65% drop in three years of use. This is faster than in the past but mainly due to how fast Apple is improving performance.
Powered the thing up today and been running it for a while. Did find the event viewer (there was a LOT of events), yellow warnings, general messages, critical one. Clicked on it yesterday from the time it rebooted and really didn't get any info. Just unexpected reboot because crash sudden power loss or something or whatever.
The event log gave a bit of concern, something trying to access something I don't know.
Part of me just don't care about this box, thinking of just doing a Linux install on it once I locate a sizable drive and maybe change out the mobo battery (seen some time and date strangeness since I put the box back together). The other part of me just don't want to mess with things at all. Don't want to crack it open. Don't want set things up yet again.
Thought about if I could just do without a computer...
Or just leave this box as is and just accept it's quirks and annoyances (all operating systems and computers have them).
The event log gave a bit of concern, something trying to access something I don't know.
Part of me just don't care about this box, thinking of just doing a Linux install on it once I locate a sizable drive and maybe change out the mobo battery (seen some time and date strangeness since I put the box back together). The other part of me just don't want to mess with things at all. Don't want to crack it open. Don't want set things up yet again.
Thought about if I could just do without a computer...
Or just leave this box as is and just accept it's quirks and annoyances (all operating systems and computers have them).
Unless there's a problem, the event viewer is not needed. Windows and apps add so much noise, that its almost impossible to glean useful info out of it, even in the event (see what I did there), there is a problem. Its funny, I manage and support servers and when there's a problem its like a needle in the haystack trying to find an issue there. Only when Microsoft, or another supporting company asks for the logs do I deal with it
I thought maybe the event viewer would say something like hey your "display driver crashed" or something useful. Nope lol. Another thing I find curious is when I have one of these issues, usually either a day or two there's an update.
And sure enough one forced it's way in as I was shutting down the box for the night...
And sure enough one forced it's way in as I was shutting down the box for the night...
I think that was the original intent, but there's so much information being logged, its impossible to see the trees through the forest - even with various filtering.
Yesterday had a complete freeze up. Couldn't get mouse or keyboard to respond not sure how long it was like this before I noticed. Since I couldn't get system to respond, off it went. Again.
I did do a search for windows 11 AMD problems and got some responses back indicating a possible bug in Windows 11. One solution was to go back to Windows 10 (ugh...) another was it seems W11 likes to uninstall AMD graphics drivers and install it's own generic ones and this could be possible since I didn't actually download the drivers for the card itself and maybe it's using generic ones. Shouldn't be too hard to check.
I'm starting to really wonder though if I should just forget this build all together. Part of me thought on decommissioning this system as well and just putting it up. Start from scratch. Haven't decided yet but chasing gremlins is getting a bit frustrating but possibly what I get using unsupported hardware.
Wonder if Linux would work better on this system. Wonder if I moved to something else if I should do laptop instead. Or a mini box...
I did do a search for windows 11 AMD problems and got some responses back indicating a possible bug in Windows 11. One solution was to go back to Windows 10 (ugh...) another was it seems W11 likes to uninstall AMD graphics drivers and install it's own generic ones and this could be possible since I didn't actually download the drivers for the card itself and maybe it's using generic ones. Shouldn't be too hard to check.
I'm starting to really wonder though if I should just forget this build all together. Part of me thought on decommissioning this system as well and just putting it up. Start from scratch. Haven't decided yet but chasing gremlins is getting a bit frustrating but possibly what I get using unsupported hardware.
Wonder if Linux would work better on this system. Wonder if I moved to something else if I should do laptop instead. Or a mini box...
I know this isn't helpful for you, but I have an AMD system, and have not incurred any issues. Is that AMD issue, and old one? I thought they had patched all issues with AMD. I can't believe the solution in September 2025, is to downgrade to windows 10, given that its EOL is a month away.
Could be just chasing a general fault looking for perfection in this system which as we all know, are so complex that faults are almost a given. All systems are basically the same at the end of the day and prone to hiccups here and there I guess 
BTW did check display driver and it is AMD Radeon
Been seeing sales on the Mac stuff and so far have been unable to push myself into one
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Meh I'm probably just looking for an excuse to buy something new and shiny
BTW did check display driver and it is AMD Radeon
Been seeing sales on the Mac stuff and so far have been unable to push myself into one
Edit:
Meh I'm probably just looking for an excuse to buy something new and shiny
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Apple where up is down and everything is unintuitive for x Windows users 🤣 well hopefully the little box works. Last couple devices I built have had frustrations and gremlins.
I don't plan on any accounts, hopefully I can leave the thing unplugged during set up and only have to worry about local accounts. Don't want iCloud or apple so or really use the app store. Just a couple apps like Firefox or duckduckgo, adb for my android upkeep and possibly gimp (if it runs or dark table) and canon dpp.
Hopefully it likes my red dragon keyboard, it's not full sized. I know macos is heavy on keyboard shortcuts.
My games uh....
I don't plan on any accounts, hopefully I can leave the thing unplugged during set up and only have to worry about local accounts. Don't want iCloud or apple so or really use the app store. Just a couple apps like Firefox or duckduckgo, adb for my android upkeep and possibly gimp (if it runs or dark table) and canon dpp.
Hopefully it likes my red dragon keyboard, it's not full sized. I know macos is heavy on keyboard shortcuts.
My games uh....
I am enjoying this on my old PC.
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I doubt anyone here ever heard of Sequioa OS since it's not a very popular OS for PC. The team is working on something called Lake Tahoe OS bringing significant UI changes dub watery glass.
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I doubt anyone here ever heard of Sequioa OS since it's not a very popular OS for PC. The team is working on something called Lake Tahoe OS bringing significant UI changes dub watery glass.
Well after about 2 weeks of it sitting in it's sealed box I did the unthinkable and opened it... And not only that, plugged my keyboard and mouse receiver (it's RF) into the dongle, the monitor in the HDMI port and plugged the power cords on and pressed the button and...
Went local for the set up. Wouldn't let me bypass that part, tried for no username or password and it wouldn't let me. Fair enough. Opted out most of what I could, it actually knew the local time even though it was not connected to the Internet yet. Set up was quick it did have a bit of an issue with my keyboard however (red dragon mechanical) it wasn't detected but for some reason it called it a Logitech but it hit me a bit later, it was my wireless mouse. Oh boy... I tried to set it up hit left shift and nothing happened so just backed out and chose to just leave it as is. Keyboard seems to work, the real test will be after a power cycle to see if the keyboard got jumbled so I didn't get too far into getting the mini set up.
First thing was unpinning a bunch of stuff from the dock I had no interest in using, getting the mouse set up (inverted the scroll wheel) and bumping the acceleration up a couple notches.
Then plugged the ethernet in hit finder instead of Safari lol but got it launched and hit up the download for Firefox. Was thinking duckduckgo browser, I wanted the ad blocking (ghostery) and incognito. That went smoothly. Then loaded up a couple tabs. A bit annoyingly I couldn't launch a private window by right clicking on Firefox in the dock, not sure if there is a way to or not. Not a huge issue. Found Firefox a little naggy (been a while since I used it). Wanted to see how mad YouTube would get with things and also try the internal speaker. So far didn't get the warning about ad blocking on YT.
Internal speaker, it works but will probably go back to the small ones I was using in the W11 box.
Found both dpp and gimp should have downloads for Apple silicon but haven't downloaded things yet, want to make sure keyboard didn't get jumbled.
Initial thoughts so far? Well, it functions and well, acts like a computer so that's good. It's running Sequoia 15.3.1. Reminds me a little bit of Linux even though it's not.
Went local for the set up. Wouldn't let me bypass that part, tried for no username or password and it wouldn't let me. Fair enough. Opted out most of what I could, it actually knew the local time even though it was not connected to the Internet yet. Set up was quick it did have a bit of an issue with my keyboard however (red dragon mechanical) it wasn't detected but for some reason it called it a Logitech but it hit me a bit later, it was my wireless mouse. Oh boy... I tried to set it up hit left shift and nothing happened so just backed out and chose to just leave it as is. Keyboard seems to work, the real test will be after a power cycle to see if the keyboard got jumbled so I didn't get too far into getting the mini set up.
First thing was unpinning a bunch of stuff from the dock I had no interest in using, getting the mouse set up (inverted the scroll wheel) and bumping the acceleration up a couple notches.
Then plugged the ethernet in hit finder instead of Safari lol but got it launched and hit up the download for Firefox. Was thinking duckduckgo browser, I wanted the ad blocking (ghostery) and incognito. That went smoothly. Then loaded up a couple tabs. A bit annoyingly I couldn't launch a private window by right clicking on Firefox in the dock, not sure if there is a way to or not. Not a huge issue. Found Firefox a little naggy (been a while since I used it). Wanted to see how mad YouTube would get with things and also try the internal speaker. So far didn't get the warning about ad blocking on YT.
Internal speaker, it works but will probably go back to the small ones I was using in the W11 box.
Found both dpp and gimp should have downloads for Apple silicon but haven't downloaded things yet, want to make sure keyboard didn't get jumbled.
Initial thoughts so far? Well, it functions and well, acts like a computer so that's good. It's running Sequoia 15.3.1. Reminds me a little bit of Linux even though it's not.