Hi, I hope this is the right place to post this. I just wanted to share my sheer amazement.

TLDR: Two years ago it took an usb keyboard, a usb ethernet adapter, digging around in efi variables, wanting no sound at all and lots of patience and crashes to get an ASUS X205TA (or F205TA for that matter, but they seem to be the same) to boot. Tried it yesterday with xubuntu and besides an initial x86 UEFI loader for the x64 system it required no extra tinkering. I want to say thank you to everyone involved on making this magic happen every day.

For context: My wife is currently in the hospital and needed a device to pass time and to better communicate with people as her phone didn't really do it for her. Remembering that a lot of time had passed since my last installation of this monster and that i had to refer to two wikis ¹² to get this thing remotely working before, i said fuck it to myself and tried it again.

After making an x86 efi grub standalone and patching a xubuntu iso to use it the thing just ran. Sure it crashed mid-installation because of the fucked up cstates on baytrail, but the well documented fix (refer to the wikis) did its job. After that it was just one config file to edit to make the headphone jack work and done. The xubuntu ubiquity installer even installed the right x86 grub onto the system. Something i had to do manually after the initial installation last time. It all just works out of the box.

And boy the performance difference to back then. It's like it is another notebook. Bundled with zswap you don't even notice the 2GB of RAM till you try Banished in Steam's Proton now that they killed the native linux support for it. But even then, the game runs way more smoothly than it did before. It's just amazing how much work has gone into each and every component of this beautiful ecosystem.

So wrapping up i want to say thank you to all of you for making this experience possible and making my wife's time in the hospital a little more endurable for her.

In about one more year, I will graduate from college and be expected to find a job to support my family. However, I want to add working with FOSS to this mix. I already know most of the big-name organizations that work with them, but what I may not be able to discover easily is if they have support programs for autistic people and/or LGBT people, since I am both of these traits (gay/homosexual male for the latter). I have a tendency to be slow on certain tasks (due to my autistic personality), which may impair my ability to work within shorter time constraints, and possibly get me fired if this gets bad enough. Additionally, while I haven't encountered bullying related to my homosexuality for my entire life so far, it is possible that this can change in my later life. If this bullying or similar happens in a work environment, it may discourage me from doing my work. I could try to find all this with web search engines, but I am unable to phrase my search query clear enough to get any relevant results. TLDR/Summary: I am seeking for information about any companies that satisfy the three things below: * Works primarily with FOSS * Has a program for helping autistic people * Has a program for helping LGBT people

I really don't want to sacrifice any of the three to get another, such has having to work at a company that primarily puts out proprietary software, or having to work at a pace that I am unable to keep up with.