Kind of for a while now ive been meaning to submerse myself in the rabbit hole that is linux. Some words that stuck with me when talking to a tutor at university when arguing as a first year does about if i should or should learn something were “arguably embedded development needs to know linux more than anyone, someday you may have to fix a problem in a deployed machine, in which case you need to be able to navigate, understand and use the basic tools that come with linux”.

It took me a while, but with the recent undertaking of making a replacement mother board for a old thinkpad, i feel this it was the perfect place to start. Ive been using the carrier board the lattepanda Mu came with to get a basic setup going, installing Arch and then promptly falling down yet another rabbit hole of ricing. Its not much but its a pretty start. Now ive actually got to start using this OS for something useful :/