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flashgnash, in Linux on a 2in1 for Uni

Don’t get a Lenovo yoga they kinda suck

Not sure about the ThinkPad yogas, only used a non -thinkpad one but I’m sure someone will chime in

From what I hear, ironically enough the surface pros are pretty good for Linux

krash,

Surface pros work, but they’re not ideal for linux. Expect struggle during the installation, and be aware some parts of the hardware won’t work.

PropaGandalf,

You are right. On an university install event I installed fedora on a fairly recent model of it with secure boot and everything. As I have heard it works really well.

rufus, (edited )

I happen to own one of the Thinkpad Yogas.

Both are entirely different product lines. Unless something changed in recent years. I like mine. And I’ve seen the ones without the ThinkPad branding in a store. They’re cheap. But that’s about it.

Cralder,

I had a surface pro 4 with Linux for several years. The install process is a bit annoying since you need to get the custom surface kernel but other than that it worked great. I had a lot of issues with the hardware (unrelated to Linux), but I’ve heard that it has gotten better with the newer versions

OsrsNeedsF2P, in November Plasma 6 update

The return of the Desktop Cube effect (Vlad Zahorodnii)

Yes

the_post_of_tom_joad, in GitHub - SerenityOS/serenity: The Serenity Operating System 🐞
@the_post_of_tom_joad@hexbear.net avatar

I read “senility operating system” which is stupid and also probably the OS I have installed

s38b35M5, in Red Hat paywall?! How the Raleigh giant divided the open source community.
@s38b35M5@lemmy.world avatar

Thought the GPL theoretically forbade this. No? Licensing is not a strong suit of mine…

gnumdk,
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The code is available as git, you just don’t have access to src.rpm.

EmbeddedEntropy,

Not what they did on the surface (limiting source to only customers). That’s allowed by the GPL. But they went beyond that which imo makes them non-compliant.

  1. RH will cancel your access/agreement if you share the GPL’d source with others. That’s directly forbidden by section 6 of the GPLv2. RH is free to cancel your agreement when they want, but not because you exercised your rights under the GPL.
  2. Once your agreement is canceled, you also lose access to the matching source for other GPL’d packages installed on your system. RH could offer other methods to be in compliance, but as far as I know, they have not.
flashgnash, in Linux Distribution Timeline

Pssht they don’t even have AmogOS

perishthethought,

A parody OS inspired by Among Us ඞ

Oh, I see. Yes, serious omission

flashgnash,

I can’t believe they’d miss such a cornerstone of Linux history

cerement,
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also missing UwUntu …

perishthethought,

I know I’m not supposed to post comments like this, but:

hahahahahaha

xantoxis, (edited ) in Linux Distribution Timeline

I installed Slackware in 1994 or so. Floppy. Disks.

Fast forward almost 30 years and I’m still trying new (to me) distros. Proxmox VE this time.

cybersandwich,

Proxmox isn’t a “distro” as most would colloquially think of one. It’s a hypervisor.

Am I taking crazy pills?

Do you mean you are using it to use your setup in a VM or container?

xantoxis, (edited )

Proxmox VE is a packaging of Linux as an operating system. It is a distribution. Straight from the wikipedia page:

It is a Debian-based Linux distribution with a modified Ubuntu LTS kernel[7] and allows deployment and management of virtual machines and containers.[8][9]

Cool way to respond to a comment btw:

Am I taking crazy pills?

The VMs I’m running in Proxmox are also Linux, but that’s less interesting to me.

cybersandwich,

I gotcha. I meant no offense. I was halfway hoping you’d tell me there was a spin of proxmox that was meant for desktop use that containerized everything or something.

TechAdmin,

It’s Debian-based so can install all the same desktop and window environments available there.

superfes, in GIMP 2.10.36 Released

My favorite part about GIMP is that after the thousands and thousands of hours people have spent developing it, it still can’t compete with software from the 1990s, that is to say, it’s complete shit, they should start from scratch at this point, perhaps aiming low like competing against 1990s MS Paint.

There’s no way they could compete with MS Paint today >_>

directive0,
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Wow, thats some wild hyperbole there.

onlinepersona,

How does it not compete with MS Paint 😅 What are you on about, mate?

RedSeries,

L take. I agree it’s behind modern image manipulation software, but it does almost everything that Photoshop did in the early 2010’s at least. It’s considerably better than current-day paint.

wizzor,

I use gimp daily, but it is still far, far behind photoshop from when I was studying and that was pre 2010.

The biggest problem is the UI. The only major improvement was the transition from multi window to single window with tabs, around 2012 or so.

It feels like using a hammer with a purple dildo for a handle. I can do it after 10 years of getting the hang of swinging around the wobbly thing. Meanwile the rest of the world transitioned to battery driven nailguns and I’m still swinging my dilmer with a slightly more rigid handle.

Dr_Fetus_Jackson,

You forgot the “/s” bro

jelloeater85,
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Yeah, it’s painful to use. Like I want to like it, but Photoshop is just a superior product. Just look at what tools professionals use when time is money.

nachtigall, in Another post for not using systemd

and this has led to a rampant monopolisation of the init system.

You will be shocked if you find out that virtually every distro runs on the same kernel. Pure monopolisation! For the freedom to choose!

banazir,
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I’m just waiting for GNU Hurd to be viable myself.

mihnt, in Linux Distribution Timeline
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  • lemmyvore,

    Mandrake was pretty cool. The original user-friendly distro. I’ve never used it (was too deep down the rabbit hole running Red Hat to try something “friendly”) but I remember there was a bit of hype going back in the day about it.

    alt, in How bad/terrible is this docker image? (Click here to see it.)

    From a comment of yours;

    Eh…just trying to learn some new things regarding common “dockerization”-related things, and improving its security.

    If the end-goal is not learning but having an as secure container as possible, then consider Wolfi; this is a good read. If you’re interested to know its current vulnerabilities, so that you can work on resolving those; then consider Trivy as it is -to my knowledge- the industry-standard for this specific use-case.

    GustavoM,
    @GustavoM@lemmy.world avatar

    If the end-goal is not learning but having an as secure container as possible

    It’s actually both – there is always something new to learn, after all. And thanks for these tips, I’ll read em right now.

    technologicalcaveman, (edited ) in Linux Distribution Timeline

    I always forget chromeos is based on gentoo.

    lemmyvore,

    I mean, at this point it’s probably got a much Gentoo left in it as Steam OS has Arch.

    cerement, in Linux Distribution Timeline
    @cerement@slrpnk.net avatar

    failed to install Debian Woody and SUSE in early naughts – finally succeeded with a Stage 1 Gentoo install (yay for me?) – a long sabbatical from Linux, back into the groove with Pop!_OS for a while, and recently replaced with Debian stable (successfully this time ;p ) – getting old enough that “bleeding edge” doesn’t hold any appeal any more, “boring” is far more interesting

    lemmyvore,

    Debian stable with some stuff installed in containers and some as flatpak is a sleeper. It may just be the best most Rick solid combination out there.

    velox_vulnus, in How bad/terrible is this docker image? (Click here to see it.)

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  • GustavoM,
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    Eh…just trying to learn some new things regarding common “dockerization”-related things, and improving its security.

    OscarRobin, in Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max!

    The limited benchmarks I’ve seen put the new X Elite at slightly less efficient than the M2 Pro (let alone M3 Pro). It only gets marginally higher scores when operating at 3x the wattage.

    Also, let’s not imagine even for a second that notoriously terrible ARM are going to make it easy to support this chip, especially not in the long term.

    ZeroHora, in Distro Picking
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    I pickup Fedora because I like the name… completely arbritary.

    puffy,

    Fedora -> A type of hat -> Red hat

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