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a0193143, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro

In my experience, both GNOME and KDE’s pure touchscreen experience are not good as Android or ChromeOS for now, and not even close to Windows 10.

GNOME has its onscreen keyboard, although not bad actually.

I haven’t been using GNOME for two years, so maybe there’s some improvement?

My suggestion is give ChromeOS a shot (Brunch Framework), if you don’t mind Google things.

DetachablePianist,

hmm, anything Google is usually not my first choice, but thanks for the suggestion! If I’m not happy with other options I might give chrome a shot anyway. Thanks!

Pantherina, (edited )

Maybe ChromiumOS Flex? But its probably not available as install medium (with drivers, DRM, hardware acceleration, …) anywhere.

Also its just for

  • Chrome(-ium) and Webapps, a lot of Google
  • Android Apps (not all)
  • Linux in a Container in a VM. Nice to setup but overkill and then no RAM advantage

Basically GrapheneOS vs. AOSP. AOSP is also very hard to use.

0x2d, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

reminds me of the chromebook search key

possiblylinux127, in New laptop

Where do you live and what’s your budget?

moitoi,
@moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Budget isn’t a real issue with 2.5k. I can go a little higher.

Sarcasmo220, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro

It sounds like you have a few devices, so I would recommend trying out this testing distro with MauiShell. There is a testing iso under the heading “Downloads and Sources” in this most recent blog post about its development progress.

mauikit.org/blog/maui-release-briefing-4/

ISOmorph, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro

Take a look at my post from several months ago: feddit.de/post/1892175

In the end I went with fydeOS since the touch experience with both Gnome and KDE was too lacking out of the box.

Pantherina,

What version of Android is FydeOS using, how frequent do they do Updates? Does it use Secureboot, etc?

breden, (edited ) in Linux Distros Evolution - January 2024 Update: Pop!_OS in Decline?

It’s probably best to take this whole graph with a grain of salt. There’s already some questionable relationships in it, like for every 4th Manjaro user coming in a Gentoo user, which I find hard to believe to say the list.
Second, it’s hard to say Pop exclamation mark underscore OS is on the decline when the whole field just looks more diversified in general. Sure the hype around gaming distros from the lockdowns seems to have cooled down a bit, but there isn’t any distro that just disappeared. On the contrary, it seems to have gotten just more.
As already mentioned, we can expect another hype again when Cosmic DE launches.

umbrella, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

how the fuck can they just decide this

sarchar,

Probably through licensing agreements with PC retailers.

But you can also just decide not to buy them.

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

can i decide to buy a keyboard without the windows key today?

Molten_Moron, (edited )

There’s always the IBM Model M or, if you prefer USB, there are remakes with it.

variants,

Wow it’s yuuge

sarchar,

Umm, it’s just a keycap. You can map the key to whatever you want.

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

agreed, however it defeats the point that its going to be optional if they really decide to do it.

leopold,

sure, any Apple keyboard

ProgrammingSocks,

Microsoft is a monopoly. Stallman was right, as usual in software

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

stallman is still right

Awoo, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

Rebranded Cortana?

Destined to fail.

Michal,

Is it just Cortana? I was under impression they’re integrating ChatGPT-like llm into windows.

Awoo, (edited )

Chatgpt is just Cortana with better marketing. AI isn’t smart, it’s just algorithms producing a facsimile of language via pattern heatmaps. What was Cortana if not just an earlier version of the same thing?

““AI”” is all a techbro marketing bubble. Will burst and move on eventually.

Like holy shit we had the autofill feature in Photoshop ages and ages ago and that’s just doing what the “intelligent” image generators do. We didn’t call it AI back then. All marketing for what amounts to just some interesting algorithms.

space_comrade,

Chatgpt is just Cortana with better marketing. AI isn’t smart, it’s just algorithms producing a facsimile of language via pattern heatmaps. What was Cortana if not just an earlier version of the same thing?

Well no, not really IMO. Cortana as far as I know wasn’t based on LLMs as we know them today, it was a way older method of NLP. You’re right that on a high level it’s pretty similar but the underlying technology is qualitatively different IMO.

JuryNullification,

The next AI winter can’t come soon enough

flan, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month
@flan@hexbear.net avatar

i dont really understand the revenue model here. i also dont understand how there’s going to be enough computational power to do LLM shit for all windows users all the time? this sounds bad for the environment.

sekhat,

Running a pre trained model is much cheaper than training one. But I’d imagine in this case you’ll be sending it over to Microsoft Servers, so they can keep track of everything you ever search so they can better advertise to you.

kristina, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

how could it possibly be that urgent that it needs a key dedicated to it

JuryNullification,

It’s probably like the Bixby button on my Samsung phone: all it does is complain I haven’t set it up yet when I accidentally push it while changing the volume.

CodingCarpenter,

You don’t just remap it to screen on and off?

JuryNullification,

It’s a work phone and I don’t really care about it, but thanks for letting me know that’s possible.

Lettuceeatlettuce, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month
@Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml avatar

Time to buy some more of those little Tux keyboard superkey stickers :)

risencode, in Microsoft says a Copilot key is coming to keyboards on Windows PCs starting this month

That’s funny, because getting an ad for Copilot inside my startmenu was actually what made me go back to Linux after 10 years.

This tracks.

drwankingstein, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro

each one of them has issues, I cant in good conscious recommend any atm

DetachablePianist,

That’s a shame. I have a few promising leads to look into; I’ll update this post with my findings and chosen winner once I pick one

woelkchen, in Looking for a good tablet PC distro
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

BlissOS blissos.org

DetachablePianist,

Looks interesting, I’ll check it out!

drwankingstein,

While I agree that it is the best tablet experience, I think that’s strething the definition of a distro pretty hard lol

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

It’s literally a distribution of an operating system that uses the Linux kernel, therefore a Linux distribution.

It’s, for example, not a Berkeley Software Distribution, BSD.

drwankingstein,

you will likely find that most people will disagree with that, the general consensus of a “Linux distro” is that gnu/linux stuff. Personally I would consider it distros in which the apps would mostly use the general linux runtime stacks since musl based distros I would still consider a general linux distro. Android uses it’s own distinct runtime, for the vast majority of usage, and although using things like termux we can get close, how android is setup it lacks a good chunk of things that can only be resolved with a chroot/proot

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t need to find people in agreement, just as I don’t need to find out whether people agree with the Earth being round or flat. Sometimes a fact is just a fact.

If you want to argue whether something like Alpine Linux that builds upon musl instead of GNU’s libc is a Linux distribution or not, please take that discussion there. I merely wanted to give OP a suggestion what should work best with his laptops.

drwankingstein,

I think it’s worth keeping in mind since when people ask for something, they generally want something specific. in this case they asked for a distro, so there is a non insiginificant chance they wanted a “generally agreed upon distro”

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Quote: “I’d still like them to behave somewhat similar to Android tablets for less techie users.”

Also OP gave a positive reply.

Can you leave me alone now with your wrong notions of “there is no Linux if it’s not GNU/Linux”? I’m not interested in discussing that.

Pantherina, (edited )

Afaik they use a pretty outdated version of Android (11?). They are the same Devs as Waydroid btw.

So it may be comfortable and made for tablets, but very old, only really essential security updates etc.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Visit the website and you no longer have to guess.

java, in New laptop

good battery life (I don’t want to worry about)

Define good battery life.

moitoi,
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I’m fine with several hours of use. 6 hours would be great. The second point is to no worry about having no battery when I take out of my backpack. The second point is also depending on the OS. With all I read and people, I would look for 94Wh at least.

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