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rdl:
I've been struggling for days trying to get a new version of Linux to run on an old computer. It took that long for me to discover that, generally speaking, the computer is probably one of the worst possible choices to put a modern Linux on. So I give up.

The computer is a Gigabyte BXBT-1900 with a Baytrail Celeron J1900 SoC that has issues running Linux. It wasn't always that way, but it is now.

I guess I'll just buy a new machine, because I'd really like to have something working soon for day to day internet usage. For a cheap machine that won't need to do much more than internet and email, I was looking at this:

https://www.newegg.com/intel-boxnuc7cjyh1/p/N82E16856102203

Another alternative would be some kind of business refurb machine, probably Lenovo. I might just buy both, keep whatever is seems best and sell the other. Odds are I'll order something today, but if anybody has any input it would be appreciated even if the advice is too late to do me any good.

Monkeh:
What sort of issues?

rdl:
Freezing. Locks up, unrecoverable. Have to unplug the power supply to reboot. Sometimes it will run for hours, but most of the time it's much less, as little as 15 minutes or so.

Monkeh:
Ah. That. Happy chipset bug!

Some recent kernels may be better.

Honestly, I'm this close to giving up on Intel for video (this is a video issue, fwiw). Some claim they're perfect, I've yet to have one single generation work reliably.

rdl:
I thought it was something to do with processor power saving modes? Not that it matters, unusable to me either way. Odd thing is, I've run Debian 8 on it for years with no problems. Using it to post this as a matter of fact.

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