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glasgitarrewelt, in Linux on a 2in1 for Uni

I bought a Microsoft Surface Book 2 when I wasn’t converted yet. BUT: now it kind of rules. There is a custom Linux Kernel for Surface devices, everything except the camera works now. That means especially: attach and detach the screen from the Keyboard and use the pen with all it’s features.

I wouldn’t buy a surface device now, because I don’t want to support Microsoft. But if you find a Book 2 for cheap, this would be a possible solution to your search.

supervent, in Best distro for my Laptop?

I would say debian but as others said, are you on hopping distros? Do you have any problem with fedora 39?

Synopsis0795,

I have almost nothing to complain about Fedora, but more so about the dependancy hell i face while trying to build any of the software i require. I want something like NixOS but without the learning curve of learning config file syntax.

CalicoJack, in Best distro for my Laptop?

You should be fine on basically anything. I have a similar-spec machine running Arch with KDE and it’s rock solid.

PrivateNoob, in Best distro for my Laptop?

Dell laptops are usually pretty good in Linux support afaik so go with whatever you like.

BuckShot686, in Anyone else experiencing high CPU and disk load by gnome tracker after upgrading fedora to 39?
@BuckShot686@beehaw.org avatar

Just going off how things are setup in the KDE spin, the tracker is what allows you to search and find files on the machine. Disabling it would most likely make it tough to find files. But I’m not familiar with gnome just to be clear. I’d say report it and hopefully someone else can provide better detail.

MiddledAgedGuy, in Your chosen desktop Linux defaults?
  • Void
  • EFI and LUKS partition, containing an LVM with root/home/swap. Ext4 partitions. I’m vaguely aware of btrfs and zram but haven’t taken them for a spin yet.
  • ufw
  • wayland
  • basic plasma install + desired apps.
electric_nan, in Distro Picking

Linux Mint Debian Edition. Second choice would be Fedora.

victron, in Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max!
@victron@programming.dev avatar

I see Linux users still thirsting over apple hardware

onlinepersona,

Whatever you want to convince yourself of, bud. Never buying hardware from Apple ever.

vsh, (edited )
@vsh@lemm.ee avatar

Buying? Nope

Wishing I had that M1 CPU? Hell yeah

onlinepersona,

Why tho? AMD’s 7840HS performs better at 35W and is x86_64.

stardreamer, (edited )
@stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Because anyone who works at the assembly level tends to think that the x86_64 ISA is garbage.

To be fair, aarch64 is also garbage. But it’s less smelly garbage.

That being said, I’m not expecting any of these CPUs to be hanging in the Sistine Chapel. So whatever works, I guess.

vsh, (edited )
@vsh@lemm.ee avatar

Apple components work faster because they are welded together to the motherboard. You can’t cheat physics.

CafecitoHippo,

Even if we were thirsting over it, what’s wrong with it? Apple makes some impressive silicon that’s really efficient. The problem is that it’s tied to their products and closed off. You can marvel at what they’re doing on the production side while not liking their business practices.

csolisr, in Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git

I wonder if they’ll consider Codeberg as their future Git host of choice. GitHub is less than ideal in terms of digital sovereignty, GitLab also has some questionable leadership. Codeberg seems like the most solid alternative to these so far.

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.

doink, in Firefox Development Is Moving From Mercurial To Git

This is great. Honestly it is the best option.

x3i, in Linux on a 2in1 for Uni

Running an HP Elite x360 1030 G2 since 2018 and an Elite Dragonfly since last year, both on Arch linux and Sway (recently Hyprland) with full touch and pen support. Can recommend both!

RedBauble,

How do you find yourself with wayland on it? Is it easy to switch between workspaces, or send windows to other workspaces? How about the onscreen-keyboard? I’m currently wondering whether to move from i3 to hyprland on my thinlpad yoga 370. I set uo a lot of gestures with touchegg on i3, I’m afraid of missing them if moving to wayland.

x3i,

Sorry, saw the reply just now. I use Wayland pretty much exclusively since I switched all my devices to Linix roughly three years ago and I face no issues. Afaik sway is fully compatible with i3 config, so I assume your gestures should just work the same. Hyprland is a different beast, it is still pre-release, so while the state is impressive, do not expect super advanced niche features like gestures (check their wiki to see if they are supported). I don’t use an OSK, whenever I fold, I pretty much use only xournal++ which I navigate with pen and touch. However, there is at least one that I tinkered with some months ago and it worked, I cannot remember the name though (probably got it from the arch wiki). Lid switch detection works well in sway, so I assume configuration for it to come up automatically should be trivial. Again, definitely try sway first, this should give you the best experience. Hope it helps!

TheGrandNagus, in Your chosen desktop Linux defaults?

Fedora Workstation (i.e. the Gnome one)

Separate /home partition

Then the only other changes are to a few keyboard shortcuts, icons, and changing Firefox to a GTK4-style theme.

Limit,

I’m coming back to linux as a main desktop, finally ditching windows (again). I tried out fedora workstation and the fedora KDE spin. KdE looks so good now, before i atteibuted it to a windows wanna-be knock off. This was back in the windows xp days… now it looks so polished. I probably prefer it to gnome because I’ve been a windows user for so long but gnome is nice with its minimal approach, looks nice and clean. Can’t get away from how nice KDE looks though, I’m going to stick with that I think.

TarquinNimrod, in The ASUS Eee PC and the netbook revolution (including Linux)

Ha ha, a post about the Eee! Dug my 1000H out of the attic a few weeks back, put Mint xfce on it and it works great, pretty zippy! Then I put it back in the attic.

backhdlp, in I made it to Linux! What is your must-have FOSS or Free Software for linux?
@backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

ProtonUp-Qt is an easy way to install and manage different Proton versions for gaming.

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