x32 mode may be an option to take advantage of some more registers/instructions, but I’d assume not many distros support that as a platform.

I have an Asus EeePC where the latest BIOS update straight up removed the option for AHCI and hard wired IDE compat mode. Luckily, I had kept the previous version and downgrade was possible.

It does support 64-bit though?

Ceterum autem censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

the sleep issues.

Ah, the life of a sysadmin

Except if they’re on “our side” if course.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

There’s a file called /pwnedornot and it contains “no, you’re safe bro”

COOLFI~1.AME

GNU, or as I’d like to call it, GNU+PTerry

Gentoo because I know my way around it and I’m able to only install stuff that I explicitly want and configured.